Driving too far: Autonomous vehicles and cybersecurity vulnerabilities
Self-driving technology can potentially reduce road traffic accidents. However, the more sophisticated automotive computers become then...
Read MoreLidar companies face a ‘make it or break it’ year
That nagging déjà vu feeling kept creeping in earlier this month during CES 2023 in Las Vegas. At every turn, in the newly constructed...
Read More“Mobileye has a vertical grip on the autonomous vehicle market”
Despite going public at a valuation equal to its purchase price by Intel five years earlier, the founder and CEO of Mobileye, Prof. Amnon...
Read MoreMy top tech IPO to buy in January
Last year was not kind to the initial public offering market, with global IPO activity volume tumbling 45%, leading to a 61% decline in...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles and the imminent death of Vision Zero
For years, the automotive industry has promised that autonomous vehicles will make our roads and commutes safer. Yet road congestion,...
Read MoreGeorge Hotz wants to ‘make driving chill’ with next-gen Comma 3 hands-free driver assist
George Hotz just wants to build robots. You can see the desire in the Comma 3, the next-generation assisted driving hardware from his...
Read MoreTop Self-driving car stories of 2022 in review – Big ups, big downs
As we enter 2023, these were the big stories in self-driving cars for 2022. You an also check out my summary of early 2022 for more...
Read MoreMobileye CEO: “We don’t want to be another Uber or Lyft”
“The public sentiment around autonomous vehicles goes back and forth like a pendulum. Four years ago the talk was that it was just around...
Read MoreAV group’s top goal: Federal policy framework
WASHINGTON — Despite news last year of Cruise’s robotaxis being investigated by NHTSA and the shuttering of Argo AI, the AV tech...
Read MoreRoad 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....
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