In a world of autonomous vehicles, this is why we’ll need more public transport than ever
The media is fascinated by autonomous vehicles (AVs), in particular their safety and when or if they will arrive en masse. A bigger and...
Read MoreHere are the executives running the biggest and most important self-driving-car companies
The serious players in the self-driving-vehicle game are starting to emerge. Over the past few years, Alphabet’s Waymo, GM’s...
Read MoreTesla floats fully self-driving cars as soon as this year. Many are worried about what that will unleash.
SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla is promising to launch “full self-driving” capabilities to hundreds of thousands of cars through an over-the-air...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles slowly merge into real-life traffic
(TNS) — Asking a driverless minivan to join suburban traffic required pushing a button labeled “START RIDE.” What followed was a cool...
Read MoreQuanergy partners with Chery to propel new era of autonomous vehicles and smart cities
Quanergy Systems, Inc., a leading provider of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensors and smart sensing solutions, announced a...
Read MoreAre autonomous vehicles farther away than we think?
The last few years have been filled with countless predictions and hype around the future of autonomous vehicles (AVs), with billions of...
Read MoreHow autonomous vehicles and hyperloop are scooting along
Two years ago, Lime was a great addition to guacamole, rather than a sidewalk. The market wasn’t sure about car sharing and whether it had...
Read MoreThe promise of self-driving delivery vehicles: Insights from Nuro cofounder Dave Ferguson
How many times have you gotten into your car to simply drive over to a local store to buy an item that you needed at your home? I’d wager...
Read MoreCould a morality setting be the future of autonomous vehicles?
A driver faces a terrible ethical dilemma: hit a pedestrian in the middle of the road, or swerve out of the way and drive into a brick...
Read MoreDespite high hopes, self-driving cars are ‘way in the future’
A year ago, Detroit and Silicon Valley had visions of putting thousands of self-driving taxis on the road in 2019, ushering in an age of...
Read MoreSelf-driving safety, talking to robots (podcast)
Noah Zych, ATG Chief of Staff at Uber, talks about building trust in autonomous vehicle safety. Author David Ewing Duncan discusses the...
Read MoreApollo’s 1202 program alarm, the 737MAX and driverless cars
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,...
Read MoreAutonomous cars: safety opportunity or cybersecurity threat?
It all started as science fiction, but the possibilities of autonomous cars gracing our roads are getting closer to reality by the day....
Read MoreContinental’s self-driving chief sees full autonomy taking time
The first fully autonomous vehicles able to handle all conditions on public roads — and potentially replacing private car ownership,...
Read MoreMasters of Agronomy: Greenskeeping Water Buffalo crews and autonomous Robo Mowers too
When it comes to golf course maintenance, deploying herds of grass munching goats and sheep to tidy up turf and keep rough from getting...
Read MoreWeek-in-Review: Google’s never-ending autonomous road trip
Hello, weekend readers. This is Week-in-Review where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while...
Read MoreDriverless cars are taking longer than we expected. Here’s why.
When world-altering technologies come about, people can find themselves, literally, at a loss for words. So they sometimes define new...
Read MoreSelf-driving gas car — a horse led by a carrot on a stick?
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...
Read MoreThe five components of autonomous leadership
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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