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2018 was the year self-driving cars hit a roadblock

Posted on Dec 18, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

It’s been a long day. As you ride home from the office, you start to nod off. You close your eyes as the self-driving car merges...

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One of Tesla’s early rivals reveals the fastest way to get self-driving vehicles on the road safely

Posted on Dec 18, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

The founder of one of Tesla’s early rivals, Fisker Automotive, is back with a vehicle that could demonstrate the benefits of...

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Does AI truly learn and why we need to stop overhyping deep learning

Posted on Dec 15, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

AI today is described in breathless terms as computer algorithms that use silicon incarnations of our organic brains to learn and reason...

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There’s no such thing as self-driving cars yet, and a spate of scary incidents could hurt their chances of ever existing

Posted on Dec 13, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Autonomous vehicles promise safer roads and more freedom. But they’re not ready to drive themselves yet....

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The long, winding and still evolving path toward automated driving

Posted on Dec 12, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

All within a few days, Waymo launched the first commercial self-driving robotic taxi service in Arizona, Tesla disclosed that Autopilot...

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Autonomous vehicles are likely to be a slowly-arriving commodity

Posted on Dec 12, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

My wife recently needed a new car, and unlike me she seeks only basic transportation. I like exotic electric cars or plug-in hybrids with...

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How self-driving cars will make our cities more charming

Posted on Dec 11, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Everyone’s trying to get ready for roads that will be filled with more and more self-driving cars. But just as the first cars were...

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COMMENT – The uncertain road to driverless delivery

Posted on Dec 11, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Autonomous vehicles are increasingly seen as at the heart of a radically different future landscape for transport solutions in the...

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Road rage against the machines? Self-driving our way into 2019

Posted on Dec 10, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Self-driving cars – or Autos, as I hope we’ll call them – passed several important milestones in 2018, and they will pass several more in...

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32 hours in Chandler, Arizona, the self-driving capital of the world

Posted on Dec 8, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

THE PARKING LOT at the Walmart on West Chandler Boulevard is packed as the sun wanes on Chandler, a languid suburb of Phoenix....

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A fair criticism of Tesla — we need more Tesla taxis!

Posted on Dec 8, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

I have watched every single Elon Musk interview I can find. People often ask the same questions of him (which is unfortunate since there...

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Congress needs to tighten up AV legislation (opinion)

Posted on Dec 7, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Self-driving cars are the future. An innovation that is projected to be an $800 billion business by 2035 — double the size of the...

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How V2X will affect the future of automobiles

Posted on Dec 6, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

“Can you hear me now?” I think many of us can remember Verizon’s well-known advertising campaign from a few years ago. While communication...

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Driverless future a long way off

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

“Without drivers to pay, to carry, or to protect, autonomous vehicles will be much less expensive to produce than conventional delivery...

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Riding in Waymo One, the Google spinoff’s first self-driving taxi service

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Waymo, the self-driving subsidiary of Alphabet, launched its first commercial autonomous ride-hailing service here in the Phoenix suburbs...

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Waymo’s service launch highlights its lead — and how much farther it has to go

Posted on Dec 5, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

There’s a decent amount of fine print attached to Waymo’s launch of a commercial self-driving service in Phoenix, and little...

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Journey: the picture history of the driverless car

Posted on Dec 4, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

For nearly 100 years, researchers have chased the same goals....

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Why autonomous vehicles won’t reduce our dependence on cars in cities

Posted on Dec 4, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

The technology of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is progressing rapidly, but have we really thought through how they’ll work in reality?...

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The pitch: Survive the autonomous era

Posted on Dec 3, 2018 in Cars, Perspective

Auto industry analysts from Bob Lutz to the consulting firm McKinsey foresee a decline in private auto sales in the approaching autonomous...

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Slow & steady: A case for driverless shuttles

Posted on Dec 3, 2018 in Buses, Perspective

As I’ve engaged in conversations about autonomous vehicles – and not just with engineers and industry experts, but with everyday citizens...

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