Boeing’s cold-blooded risk calculation may tarnish trust in “self-driving” cars for years
When experts want to illustrate the potential safety of self-driving cars, they point to the remarkable safety record of modern aircraft,...
Read MoreReuters hosts Newsmaker with Raquel Urtasun, Uber’s Chief Scientist & Head of Advanced Technology Group, Toronto
On Monday, Reuters hosted a Newsmaker event in New York with Raquel Urtasun, Uber’s Chief Scientist & Head of Advanced Technology...
Read MoreCovestro sees new automotive opportunities as cars evolve
With the car undergoing some of the biggest changes in its 130-year history, companies such as materials maker Covestro hope to capitalize...
Read MoreMEMS based LiDAR to overcome conventional limitations
The big challenge is to come up with a LiDAR design which hits the performance and robustness targets and is able to be produced in mass...
Read MoreFully autonomous vehicles: A journey worth pursuing
The utopian visions of roads dominated by self-driving vehicles might not ever come to pass, but it’s still a goal worth pursuing. Making...
Read MoreFirst ride in driveless car is a bit jerky, but still ‘pretty cool’
Andrew Ogawa says he is excited about self-driving car technology after getting his first ride in an autonomous vehicle Sunday. “It...
Read MoreAutonomous 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...
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