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News, Analysis & Perspective on Autonomous Vehicles

Confidence that your self-driving car won’t drive off a cliff while you’re sleeping

Posted on May 7, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The high-tech and automotive industries are coming to terms with the likelihood that a truly driverless car – one in which it’s safe...

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What’s the piece-of-the-pie for driverless cars in $2 trillion infrastructure plan?

Posted on May 7, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

There are emerging discussions that perhaps Congress and the White House might agree to a rather significant spend on America’s...

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COMMENT: Autonomous vehicle maps must combine precision with flexibility

Posted on May 6, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Navigation has been a core component of the automotive industry for decades. While the market today has progressed far from its paper...

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Tesla crash lawsuit nails the achilles heel of driverless cars

Posted on May 5, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

When you were a young child, you might have placed your hand near a stovetop that was hot or tried to grab the handle of a pot or pan that...

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Who wins when robot race cars cross the finish line? Consumers who want self-driving tech

Posted on May 5, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

“Racing improves the breed” is a bon mot that’s been likely bantered about since one person told two other people on...

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Are 175 million Americans right about driverless cars? Remarkably, yes

Posted on May 3, 2019 in Cars, News, Perspective

There are numerous online surveys and phone-based polls being taken about whether or not the lay public is ready for the advent of...

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Key to mainstream autonomous vehicles lies in mass production of LiDAR sensors

Posted on May 2, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Technology, Trucks

To achieve large-scale commercialization of autonomous vehicles, a new generation of high-precision 3D environment sensing solid-state...

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Australia is ramping up autonomous vehicles – but we are on track to make the same mistakes we made with cars

Posted on May 1, 2019 in Cars, News, Perspective

We’re doing autonomous buses wrong and we risk repeating the same transportation mistakes we made with cars or making them worse as...

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An auto exec who was ahead of the curve on electric cars explains what he sees as the biggest opportunity in the self-driving industry

Posted on Apr 30, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

In some ways, Tony Posawatz is the forgotten man of the electric-car revolution. The longtime auto executive oversaw the launch of the...

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How automakers, tech companies can turn driverless plans into dollars

Posted on Apr 29, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

As driverless cars move closer to reality from science fiction, there’s a new competition: the race to a business case. Self-driving...

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Carmakers face pressure to set self-driving car rules

Posted on Apr 29, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

“If you buy a car that does not have the hardware necessary for full self-driving, it is like buying a horse,” Tesla CEO Elon...

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Autonomous vehicles make congestion pricing even more critical

Posted on Apr 29, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

Autonomous vehicles will soon be ubiquitous on city streets. Before this happens, we should ask ourselves: Will they whisk us quickly...

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Rack ’em up, driverless cars surprisingly will be a boon for auto repair market

Posted on Apr 29, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

That cha-ching sound of money being made from driverless cars will be the inexorable clatter coming from cash registers ringing over and...

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It’s not just autonomous cars of the future that need security – today’s do too

Posted on Apr 25, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

It’s going to be a while before autonomous vehicles (AV) are mainstream. Don’t expect, anytime soon, to summon a driverless car with an...

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Musk’s self-driving car roadmap isn’t possible, futurist Martin Ford says

Posted on Apr 24, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Martin Ford, author of “Rise of the Robots” and “Architects of Intelligence,” and Bloomberg Intelligence’s...

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Could autonomous vehicles be worse for cities than regular cars?

Posted on Apr 23, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Could autonomous vehicles be worse for cities than autos have turned out to be? Few appear to think so. But we have a long track record of...

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How long will it take to phase in driverless cars?

Posted on Apr 23, 2019 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

Aurora CEO Chris Urmson stopped by The Vergecast to discuss the future of self-driving cars with Nilay Patel and Andrew Hawkins. They...

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Nunes: Benefits won’t be shared

Posted on Apr 22, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

So, my colleague Meredith gave a very eloquent introduction as to why the technology is unsafe, why it doesn’t work. But let’s...

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Are we there yet? A reality check on self-driving cars

Posted on Apr 22, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

READ THE BREATHLESS articles and bold tweets and you could be forgiven for thinking that the fully autonomous vehicle is around the...

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Expect NHTSA to be strict with driverless cars, says expert

Posted on Apr 22, 2019 in Cars, Perspective, Policy & Regulation

Jim Press, former president of Chrysler, and Steven Shladover, research engineer at University of California-Berkeley, join “Closing...

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