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Driving too far: Autonomous vehicles and cybersecurity vulnerabilities

Posted on Jan 19, 2023 in Perspective, Technology

Self-driving technology can potentially reduce road traffic accidents. However, the more sophisticated automotive computers become then...

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Lidar companies face a ‘make it or break it’ year

Posted on Jan 18, 2023 in Perspective, Technology

That nagging déjà vu feeling kept creeping in earlier this month during CES 2023 in Las Vegas. At every turn, in the newly constructed...

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“Mobileye has a vertical grip on the autonomous vehicle market”

Posted on Jan 16, 2023 in Perspective, Technology

Despite going public at a valuation equal to its purchase price by Intel five years earlier, the founder and CEO of Mobileye, Prof. Amnon...

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My top tech IPO to buy in January

Posted on Jan 12, 2023 in Finance, Perspective

Last year was not kind to the initial public offering market, with global IPO activity volume tumbling 45%, leading to a 61% decline in...

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Autonomous vehicles and the imminent death of Vision Zero

Posted on Jan 12, 2023 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology

For years, the automotive industry has promised that autonomous vehicles will make our roads and commutes safer. Yet road congestion,...

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George Hotz wants to ‘make driving chill’ with next-gen Comma 3 hands-free driver assist

Posted on Jan 10, 2023 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

George Hotz just wants to build robots. You can see the desire in the Comma 3, the next-generation assisted driving hardware from his...

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Top Self-driving car stories of 2022 in review – Big ups, big downs

Posted on Jan 9, 2023 in Perspective, Technology

 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...

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Mobileye CEO: “We don’t want to be another Uber or Lyft”

Posted on Jan 6, 2023 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

“The public sentiment around autonomous vehicles goes back and forth like a pendulum. Four years ago the talk was that it was just around...

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AV group’s top goal: Federal policy framework

Posted on Jan 6, 2023 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology

WASHINGTON — Despite news last year of Cruise’s robotaxis being investigated by NHTSA and the shuttering of Argo AI, the AV tech...

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Road robots are coming to the rescue

Posted on Dec 30, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

DEVELOPING CARS THAT can drive without a human is a unique challenge. There are many kinds of events that fully autonomous vehicles have...

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Autonomous vehicles reality check part 3: Robots moving freight

Posted on Dec 28, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

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...

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How artificial intelligence is driving robotaxis from science fiction to reality

Posted on Dec 27, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

In December 2022, Cruise Automation announced the launch of its fully driverless robotaxi service in Austin. Texas and Phoenix, Arizona....

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Is Ford’s $2.7 billion mistake a warning for General Motors?

Posted on Dec 24, 2022 in Finance, Perspective, Technology

Over the past few years, unmistakable buzz has surrounded autonomous vehicle technology as start-ups and major manufacturers are both...

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Meet Gatik, which may be the leader in self-driving trucks by attacking the middle mile

Posted on Dec 23, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Many companies are working on self-driving trucks and delivery. As it became clear that robotaxi required a very large investment, teams...

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Autonomous vehicles reality check part 2: Moving people

Posted on Dec 22, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

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...

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Autonomous vehicles reality check part 1: The Argo.ai headline that got buried

Posted on Dec 20, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

The Gartner Hype Curve is the lingua franca for the startup space. The stages are Technology Trigger, Peak of Inflated Expectations,...

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Seven reasons why you should test utilizing Digitrans’ Outdoor Rain Plant

Posted on Dec 20, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Humans can evaluate situations and make decisions based on experience and adapt their behavior according to road and weather conditions....

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EU shows support for unmanned and autonomous systems for going green

Posted on Dec 20, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

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...

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Q&A: Kenworth on its autonomous-truck development

Posted on Dec 19, 2022 in Perspective, Trucks

Attendees of the 2022 American Trucking Associations’ annual meeting in San Diego in October got to see a number of trucks on display with...

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Powering data-driven autonomy at scale with camera data

Posted on Dec 15, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

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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