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Self-driving safety, talking to robots (podcast)

Posted on Jul 17, 2019 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

Noah Zych, ATG Chief of Staff at Uber, talks about building trust in autonomous vehicle safety. Author David Ewing Duncan discusses the...

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Are self driving cars the future?

Posted on Jul 16, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

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Apollo’s 1202 program alarm, the 737MAX and driverless cars

Posted on Jul 16, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

On a scale of one to ten of difficulty and danger, Neil Armstrong thought walking around on the moon was about a one. Landing on the moon,...

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Autonomous cars: safety opportunity or cybersecurity threat?

Posted on Jul 16, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

It all started as science fiction, but the possibilities of autonomous cars gracing our roads are getting closer to reality by the day....

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Continental’s self-driving chief sees full autonomy taking time

Posted on Jul 16, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Perspective

The first fully autonomous vehicles able to handle all conditions on public roads — and potentially replacing private car ownership,...

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Masters of Agronomy: Greenskeeping Water Buffalo crews and autonomous Robo Mowers too

Posted on Jul 15, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

When it comes to golf course maintenance, deploying herds of grass munching goats and sheep to tidy up turf and keep rough from getting...

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Week-in-Review: Google’s never-ending autonomous road trip

Posted on Jul 14, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Hello, weekend readers. This is Week-in-Review where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while...

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Driverless cars are taking longer than we expected. Here’s why.

Posted on Jul 14, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

When world-altering technologies come about, people can find themselves, literally, at a loss for words. So they sometimes define new...

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Self-driving gas car — a horse led by a carrot on a stick?

Posted on Jul 13, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Elon Musk has said that buying a car today that will not be upgradable to enable full autonomy is like buying a horse. It’s implied that...

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The five components of autonomous leadership

Posted on Jul 12, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

It was only four years ago that AlphaGo began beating the world’s top professional Go players and Google released TensorFlow, an...

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Dropping off passengers vexes self-driving cars, the last step is a doozie

Posted on Jul 11, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

I was using a ridesharing service last month in Detroit to get to a restaurant after having spoken at a conference on autonomous vehicles....

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Inside the GM factory where Cruise’s autonomous Bolt is made

Posted on Jul 10, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

TechCrunch took a field trip to GM’s Orion Assembly plant in Michigan to get an up-close view of how this factory has evolved since the...

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The future of autonomous vehicles runs off roads and on to farms, construction sites and mines

Posted on Jul 10, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Fully self-driving passenger cars are not “just around the corner.” While the well-capitalized leaders — funded by corporations,...

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Earthquakes rattle proficiency of self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 10, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

California has been rocking and rolling, doing so to the tune of several recent earthquakes and aftershocks. That shaking feeling has also...

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These are the 5 leaders in the self-driving-car race

Posted on Jul 9, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Tech companies and auto companies are all racing to be he first to roll out self-driving cars onto the road. The stakes are high for...

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Money and politics, not technology, stand between us and self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 9, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Some human aspirations are easy to measure. JFK’s promise to put a man on the moon was simple: transport a human to the Moon where he will...

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Teslička makes Tesla cars turn profit before autonomous tech

Posted on Jul 9, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Recently on Twitter (where else?), Elon Musk said Tesla cars currently offer a window of opportunity, so to speak. That’s because they...

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UK poll: Most drivers not keen on autonomous cars

Posted on Jul 9, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The results of the survey, which was carried out by IAM RoadSmart, the UK’s biggest independent road safety charity, provides further...

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Where May Mobility’s self-driving shuttles might show up next

Posted on Jul 8, 2019 in Buses, Perspective

May Mobility  might be operating low-speed self-driving shuttles in three U.S. cities, but its founders don’t view this as just another...

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Elon Musk says self-driving tech could mean consumers will have a limited time to buy Teslas at current prices

Posted on Jul 8, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Elon Musk has made no secret of his ambitions to create a fleet of self-driving electric Tesla “robotaxis” that can one day ferry...

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