Road robots are coming to the rescue
DEVELOPING CARS THAT can drive without a human is a unique challenge. There are many kinds of events that fully autonomous vehicles have...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles reality check part 3: Robots moving freight
There was a time when “AV trucks” were discussed as a singular thing, i.e., driverless long-haul trucking. Those days are now in the...
Read MoreHow artificial intelligence is driving robotaxis from science fiction to reality
In December 2022, Cruise Automation announced the launch of its fully driverless robotaxi service in Austin. Texas and Phoenix, Arizona....
Read MoreIs Ford’s $2.7 billion mistake a warning for General Motors?
Over the past few years, unmistakable buzz has surrounded autonomous vehicle technology as start-ups and major manufacturers are both...
Read MoreMeet Gatik, which may be the leader in self-driving trucks by attacking the middle mile
Many companies are working on self-driving trucks and delivery. As it became clear that robotaxi required a very large investment, teams...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles reality check part 2: Moving people
As I noted in Part One of this series, Autonomous Vehicle (AV) naysayers have been coming out of the woodwork to push the narrative that...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles reality check part 1: The Argo.ai headline that got buried
The Gartner Hype Curve is the lingua franca for the startup space. The stages are Technology Trigger, Peak of Inflated Expectations,...
Read MoreSeven reasons why you should test utilizing Digitrans’ Outdoor Rain Plant
Humans can evaluate situations and make decisions based on experience and adapt their behavior according to road and weather conditions....
Read MoreEU shows support for unmanned and autonomous systems for going green
The European Union and its Member States have worked for years to reduce the impact of humans on the planet, and new efforts are intended...
Read MoreQ&A: Kenworth on its autonomous-truck development
Attendees of the 2022 American Trucking Associations’ annual meeting in San Diego in October got to see a number of trucks on display with...
Read MorePowering data-driven autonomy at scale with camera data
At Woven Planet, we’re using machine learning (ML) to build an autonomous driving system that improves as it observes more human driving....
Read MoreTesla Full Self-Driving data looks awful: We challenge Elon Musk to prove otherwise
The little data that is coming out of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta looks awful, and that’s putting it mildly. We challenge Elon Musk to...
Read MoreMy failed take on an autonomous trucking future
This was originally writting on my notion. Porting this over has done heinous things to the formatting, so please excuse any readability...
Read MoreLiDAR alone will NOT solve the autonomous vehicle problem — 2D/3D fusion labeling introduction
LiDAR sensors are vital in the development of autonomous vehicles. These sensors allow the detection of objects in a wide radius and...
Read MoreThe technology that’s not going to save your city
In October 2017, I was invited to give a lecture at Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. Staff there had read my books and were curious what...
Read MoreRobo truckers and the AI-fueled future of transport
ECONOMISTS AND POLICYMAKERS are becoming increasingly concerned about the effects of automation and artificial intelligence on...
Read MoreFord may be on to something in deferring Level 5 autonomy
Automotive strategists once talked about the evolution of all-electric vehicles (EVs) and completely autonomous vehicles (AVs) as tied...
Read MoreThis $220 billion market opens up a path for driverless cars
Andrew Grant from BloombergNEF Intelligent Mobility research here. My Bloomberg News colleagues have published several reports on the...
Read More3 things I learned about trucking tech in 2022
I mark 2015 as the year the North American trucking industry got the memo that massive, change was on the horizon. Each year since then,...
Read MoreBetter semiconductor stock: Mobileye vs. Nvidia
Mobileye (MBLY 0.31%) and Nvidia (NVDA -1.51%) represent two very different ways to invest in the semiconductor sector. Mobileye, which...
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