AVs will be crushed in 4 years, exec says
There’s been much hand-wringing about the threat that autonomous vehicles pose to new-vehicle sales in the coming years. But those...
Read MoreReady For Self-Driving EV? Consumers Say, Not So Fast
To hear some pundits tell it, we’ll all be carted around in self-driving electric vehicles before we know it. Maybe not by dinner time,...
Read MoreWhere Does Auto-Follower Platooning Fit Within The Driverless Truck Ecosystem?
In truck platooning circles, the idea has been around for a long time. Once you master a robust, safe system for close following of one...
Read MoreWill networked self-driving cars become a surveillance nightmare?
It’s May, 2020 and police have issued an “amber alert” because it appears a young girl has been kidnapped. They have...
Read MoreBelieving your self-driving car or your lyin’ eyes
You might be somewhat familiar with the expression “lyin’ eyes” and which can be used in a variety of interesting and useful ways....
Read MoreExperts say we’re decades away from fully-autonomous cars. Here’s why.
Narrator: This is Volvo’s 360c concept car, and it’s just one idea of what completely driverless cars might look like one...
Read MoreSteering Autonomous Vehicles From Curse To Blessing Via Autonomous Bus Rapid Transit
Autonomous cars are generating incredible hype, but whether they become a curse or blessing depends on how they are used. Car...
Read MoreFord says its autonomous cars will last just four years
The automotive industry has been promoting self-driving cars as a kind of panacea that will solve numerous problems that modern society is...
Read MoreA Novelist Takes Self-Driving To Its Illogical Conclusion
The Fate of the Furious doesn’t really get crazy until the movie’s villain, played by Charlize Theron, tells her hacker minions to “make...
Read MoreThe Road To Self-Driving Storage
You’ve already noticed that the data center is in the midst of a revolution. It is no longer a world where you can simply unpack a server...
Read MoreThe robo racing cars accelerating driverless tech
For a start, he doesn’t get in the vehicle – it’s driverless. As a post-doctoral researcher, he is in charge of the...
Read MoreTesla full self driving & the infamous 80–20 rule
For people working in software development, like I used to do, the 80–20 rule is infamous. It states that about 80% of the job is done in...
Read MoreElon Musk’s physics mindset may underpin a misguided timetable for full self-driving Teslas
Leaders often use specific mental models to guide their approach to leadership (see my book on business pivots and leadership for further...
Read MoreHow do we stop driverless cars and autonomous delivery drones from becoming weapons?
As we look to the future of driverless cars and autonomous delivery drones, one of the most existential questions of their future is how...
Read MoreGrappling with risk-o-meters for self-driving cars
You are a finely tuned risk calculator. That’s right, when you are driving a car you are in real-time having to figure out the risks of...
Read MoreChina is betting on slow but steady to win the self-driving car race
Over the past two years, China has been setting the stage for a revolution in autonomous driving. Just don’t expect that revolution to...
Read MoreAutonomous mobility and the mythical mass market
In the fall of 2002, Microsoft announced the Smart Personal Objects Initiative (SPOT), which aimed to inject software into everyday...
Read MoreResearchers look into keeping autonomous vehicles from becoming mobile vomitoriums
If you’re like me, and I’m just going to assume most of you are, motion sickness is a serious consideration on any car trip where you’re...
Read MoreWaymo: Building cars is a “distraction” from self-driving tech
When it comes to building and perfecting the self-driving car, some companies have elected to build a full vehicle from the ground up,...
Read MoreAutonomous technology requires caution — and a leap of faith
Historically, every wave of technological innovation — especially those that directly impact human well-being — has had...
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