Autonomous vehicles provide new economic opportunities although security hurdles arise
If you live in the Silicon Valley, you probably have seen Google’s autonomous vehicles map terrain and drive around your local highways or...
Read MoreBuilding driverless cars: How they will reshape our world
Waymo consultant Larry Burns, General Motors’ former vice president-R&D, shares his insights with GlobalAutoIndustry.com on the...
Read MoreSeizing the self-driving vehicle opportunity
Self-driving vehicles are poised to trigger huge social, industrial and economic benefits. According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers...
Read MoreAre we on the right road to driverless cars?
There is much ongoing research into autonomous road vehicles and experimental cars and heavy-goods vehicles have already hit the roads. A...
Read MoreAutonomous driving has serious problems that could lead to very long delays
Whack-a-mole is not good enough. A Chinese demonstration of the inadequacies of Tesla’s autopilot (see here) also clearly shows that the...
Read MoreThe convergence of 5G and AI: A venture capitalist’s view
As an emerging-technology investor, I am always on the lookout for new technologies that can improve existing markets and enable new ones....
Read MoreWhy the rush? Self-driving cars still have long way to go before safe integration
For the past four or five years, we’ve been hearing about the potential of autonomous vehicles to alleviate traffic congestion and...
Read MoreWhat’s the acceptable death rate for autonomous cars?
Before a surgeon cracks open your chest, ask him his acceptable death rate for patients. When you climb aboard an airplane, ask the pilot...
Read MoreAutomakers’ edge in the autonomous mobility market
“Driverless cars are an existential threat to the car industry,” Forbes contributor Stephen McBride wrote last year. He points out that...
Read MoreAutomated vehicles: the opportunity to create an inclusive mobility system
Automated vehicles are expected to improve mobility and thereby address one of the major barriers to equality and inclusion in society....
Read MoreWhat does General Motors’ new patent mean for the future of autonomous vehicles?
A patent granted in February 2019 to car giant General Motors (GM) has the potential to further disrupt the market for self-driving...
Read MoreWhy ethics are paramount for autonomous vehicles
Philosophy professor Nick Evans, winner of a 2017 National Science Foundation grant to study the ethical questions that autonomous...
Read MoreAutonomy: OEMs can prepare to thrive in changing world
Most public discussion of self-driving or autonomous vehicles has focused primarily on engineering, logistics and technical feasibility....
Read MoreHow malevolent machine learning could derail AI
Artificial intelligence won’t revolutionize anything if hackers can mess with it. That’s the warning from Dawn Song, a professor at UC...
Read MoreSafety now, self-driving later
I have no idea how long it will take for a safe, fully autonomous vehicle to enter production. I am sure that it will take a lot longer...
Read MoreUber vs. Lyft: Which is the better autonomous vehicle company?
Uber and Lyft are racing toward their IPOs, with Lyft likely going public in the coming weeks and Uber likely not too far behind. And as...
Read More7 key challenges impacting the mass deployment of autonomous vehicles
The automotive industry is currently looking at the technology innovation needed to move from today’s prototype autonomous vehicles to...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicle timing is a MEMS thing
Engineering is always about tradeoffs, but autonomous vehicles are pushing that to the limit with conflicting requirements....
Read MoreJim Cramer: Apple doesn’t need a driverless car to be a buy
Will Tim Cook next week have to introduce a driverless Mac Car that runs on water and, for an additional $49, take us to Mars in order to...
Read MoreAutonomous transport will shape the future of cities – best get on the right path early
A unique opportunity exists for infrastructure investment in Australia as transport as we know it faces disruption from autonomous...
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