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News, Analysis & Perspective on Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous vehicles: To park or not to park?

Posted on Jun 6, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

One of the more astonishing statistics about Apple’s new headquarters (registration required), ironically named Apple Park, is that it...

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Opinion: Advisory needed for autonomous vehicle development

Posted on Jun 5, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

“Fully automated cars and trucks that drive us, instead of us driving them, will become a reality,” announced the National Highway Traffic...

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Self-driving cars are already here

Posted on Jun 5, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Southern California, like many parts of the country, has terrible traffic. With almost 13 million Californians driving alone into work...

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Human drivers bullying self-driving cars: Unlawful or fair game?

Posted on Jun 4, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The official California DMV Driver Handbook provides prescribed driving practices that everyone is supposed to comply with while driving...

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The road to Level 5 autonomy is still a long way off

Posted on Jun 4, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Automakers are waking up to the realities of autonomous vehicles. In 2016, Ford said that it’d be mass producing vehicles capable of...

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Cooperation and communication essential for consumer confidence in autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jun 3, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Until very recently, mobility has been a purely mechanical affair. The cogs and bolts that have underpinned and powered automobiles have,...

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Tesla Autopilot, at times unsafe for automatic lane changes, lays bare machine-learning brittleness

Posted on Jun 2, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

In my column of last Sunday, I analyzed a Tesla Autopilot incident involving a Tesla Model 3 that slammed into a stalled car on a highway,...

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ProBeat: Apple’s Drive.ai acquisition proves nothing new

Posted on Jun 1, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

This week was another whirlwind in AI News. But one story particularly stood out to me: the collapse of self-driving car startup Dubai.ai....

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Will cyber-warfare impact the development of driverless vehicles?

Posted on May 31, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Answer by Stan Hanks, tech guy, on Quora: War is by nature the projection of force by one country to another to seek compliance with...

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Essential stats for justifying and comparing self-driving cars to humans at the wheel

Posted on May 30, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

In speaking at various industry events, I am often asked about some of the various statistics frequently mentioned as a form of...

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Fully autonomous vehicles are still a distant dream, says SAIPS executive

Posted on May 30, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

“Regulation does not restrict development of the autonomous car. Drivers are required to be active for at least some of the driving...

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Data security for autonomous vehicles can and should be treated with respect

Posted on May 30, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

The list of privacy and security issues that bubble up as the auto industry grapples with autonomous and shared vehicles is long and...

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Self-driving could get a big boost if this automotive radar startup is on the right track

Posted on May 29, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

The hideously difficult, costly and time-consuming development of self-driving technology hungers for breakthroughs such as the one that...

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LiDAR drives our autonomous future

Posted on May 28, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Cars, robots and other machines are becoming more intelligent thanks to several technology advances that help these smart machines operate...

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Even as self-driving cars take to the road, drivers will still be in high demand

Posted on May 27, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Tesla’s Elon Musk recently announced plans to start deploying driverless taxis across the United States next year. It was the latest...

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Elon Musk may be a pain, but that doesn’t mean his ideas are crazy

Posted on May 26, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to wonder if Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, is off his rocker. I mean to say, how many leaders of US...

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Video: When will we see the mass deployment of autonomous cars?

Posted on May 26, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Automated vehicles won’t slow down to gawk at the scene of an accident. Nor will they keep changing lanes in an effort to get to...

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Why Amazon is revving up its investments in electric and self-driving cars

Posted on May 23, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Trucks

Amazon (AMZN – Get Report) is on a bit of an investment streak, and recently, it’s been focused on transportation....

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Letting your kids ride alone in an autonomous self-driving car: Ever or never?

Posted on May 23, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

There’s a lot of hand-wringing these days about letting your children be solo passengers in ridesharing cars run by the conventional...

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It takes a village to build an autonomous vehicle

Posted on May 22, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Many of the greatest breakthroughs in science and technology are inextricably associated with a specific name. Think Einstein and the...

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