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Near miss data highlights pitfalls of autonomous cars

Posted on Sep 9, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Ford uses near miss data to identify common issues at junctions which could pose a risk when autonomous cars are in use. Potential...

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Are we ready for autonomous vehicles?

Posted on Sep 9, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

A recent study examines 20 countries worldwide and finds both opportunities and potential potholes on the road to driverless cars. KPMG...

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Extreme corner case for autonomous cars — giants riding on cars down hills!

Posted on Sep 9, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

So, imagine you are driving along in your fancy high-tech car, minding your own business, with your yet-to-be-feature-complete full...

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More than a decade before driverless buses take over, says Volvo

Posted on Sep 6, 2019 in Buses, Perspective

Bus drivers will be needed for at least another 10 to 15 years before autonomous vehicles take over, a Volvo executive predicted,...

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Building safe, trustworthy driverless cars

Posted on Sep 5, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

How safe is safe? This seemingly simple question is a topic of frequent discussion within Aptiv’s autonomous mobility division. I’m proud...

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1 big thing: AVs could help speed evacuations

Posted on Sep 5, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

About 1.5 million Floridians have moved inland to avoid the wrath of Hurricane Dorian. Such evacuations can be perilous — but in the...

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Feds say tesla autopilot is partly to blame for a 2018 crash

Posted on Sep 4, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The design of Tesla’s Autopilot feature contributed to a January 2018 accident in which a Model S sedan smashed into the back of a fire...

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Will self-driving cars really only last four years?

Posted on Sep 3, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

A recent news item about self-driving cars has been creating quite a flurry of debate due to the suggestion by a major automotive maker...

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Ansys and edge case research transform autonomous vehicle artificial intelligence

Posted on Sep 3, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) is collaborating with Edge Case Research to engineer the next generation of autonomous vehicles (AV) with unmatched...

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Winning the Autonomous Truck Race Requires Greater Simplicity

Posted on Sep 2, 2019 in Perspective, Trucks

When it comes to self-driving trucks, trucks that can tool down the highway without a human behind the wheel, the common perception is...

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AVs will be crushed in 4 years, exec says

Posted on Sep 1, 2019 in Perspective

There’s been much hand-wringing about the threat that autonomous vehicles pose to new-vehicle sales in the coming years. But those...

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Ready For Self-Driving EV? Consumers Say, Not So Fast

Posted on Aug 30, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

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,...

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Where Does Auto-Follower Platooning Fit Within The Driverless Truck Ecosystem?

Posted on Aug 30, 2019 in Perspective, Trucks

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...

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Will networked self-driving cars become a surveillance nightmare?

Posted on Aug 29, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

It’s May, 2020 and police have issued an “amber alert” because it appears a young girl has been kidnapped. They have...

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Believing your self-driving car or your lyin’ eyes

Posted on Aug 29, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

You might be somewhat familiar with the expression “lyin’ eyes” and which can be used in a variety of interesting and useful ways....

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Experts say we’re decades away from fully-autonomous cars. Here’s why.

Posted on Aug 29, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Narrator: This is Volvo’s 360c concept car, and it’s just one idea of what completely driverless cars might look like one...

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Steering Autonomous Vehicles From Curse To Blessing Via Autonomous Bus Rapid Transit

Posted on Aug 28, 2019 in Buses, Perspective

Autonomous cars are generating incredible hype, but whether they become a curse or blessing depends on how they are used. Car...

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Ford says its autonomous cars will last just four years

Posted on Aug 27, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The automotive industry has been promoting self-driving cars as a kind of panacea that will solve numerous problems that modern society is...

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A Novelist Takes Self-Driving To Its Illogical Conclusion

Posted on Aug 27, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

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...

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The Road To Self-Driving Storage

Posted on Aug 26, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

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...

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