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Gathering data for autonomous driving in adverse weather conditions

Posted on Nov 10, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Autonomous driving is fundamentally changing the way people and goods are transported and could benefit the future society in significant...

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Autonomous vehicle survivors on edge

Posted on Nov 10, 2022 in Markets, Perspective

There’s a phrase that keeps getting tossed around in the autonomous vehicle business: trough of disillusionment. Cruise CEO Kyle...

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Autonomous vehicles and the future of roadway design and construction

Posted on Nov 8, 2022 in Infrastructure, Perspective, Technology

Transportation engineering is one of the major disciplines within the Civil Engineering profession. Hundreds of thousands of students...

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Real-world testing of autonomous trucks ramps up

Posted on Nov 8, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Over the past year, the autonomous trucking sector has accelerated efforts to test its technology in real-world applications. Through its...

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Mercedes-Benz won’t follow Tesla into the robotaxi game

Posted on Nov 3, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Mercedes-Benz CTO Markus Schäfer is energized by his visit to Silicon Valley. The executive is at the automaker’s Sunnyvale, California,...

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Will 2027 change trucking’s technology track?

Posted on Nov 1, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a recent ACT Research study predicting a massive Class 8 truck prebuy in 2026, ahead of the next...

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Self-driving cars were supposed to take over the road. What happened?

Posted on Nov 1, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Washington, DC (CNN Business) — For over a decade, companies from Google to General Motors have poured billions of dollars into the...

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Is Mobileye stock a buy now?

Posted on Nov 1, 2022 in Finance, Markets, Perspective

Mobileye (NASDAQ: MBLY) went public again on Oct. 26 after spending the past five years as a subsidiary of Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). The...

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AI ethics and AI law grappling with overlapping and conflicting ethical factors within AI

Posted on Nov 1, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Do two wrongs make a right? Whichever way that you decide to answer that longstanding and vexing question, the odds are that you are...

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Former head of Tesla AI explains why they’ve removed sensors; others differ

Posted on Oct 31, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

In a recent interview, Andrej Karpathy, who formerly was head of AI for Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD products, outlined their reasoning...

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Argo.ai shuts down – What will happen to its LiDAR unit?

Posted on Oct 31, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Argo.ai, an autonomous vehicle (AV) unicorn, announced on October 26, 2022, that it would terminate operations across its locations in...

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Autonomous vehicles have a long way to go despite billions in investments

Posted on Oct 30, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

In an automotive world always running between monthly sales goals, quarterly earnings and multiyear product cycles, it can be easy to lose...

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Driverless cars aren’t going away, but we need to lower our expectations about them

Posted on Oct 29, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

The driverless car startups that haven’t run out of money, gone out of business, or been bought out want you to know that driverless cars...

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Driverless shouldn’t equal meaningless: creatives can unlock the user experience

Posted on Oct 28, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

There’s no halting the rapid push toward driverless cars—once the technology is matured, autonomous vehicles (AVs) will likely make the...

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Automotive safety and security on the road

Posted on Oct 28, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

The last two articles addressed how sensor fusion is advancing the capabilities of autonomous vehicles (AVs), and how the electrification...

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Four things needed to make robotaxis successful in Los Angeles

Posted on Oct 28, 2022 in Cars, Infrastructure, Perspective

Have you heard the exciting, futuristic-transportation news? Robotaxis will soon be “rolling down the street” in Los Angeles. And if you...

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Thermal cameras gain acceptance for ADAS and autonomous cars

Posted on Oct 28, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Thermal imaging measures temperature differences in a scene by imaging each resolved point to a corresponding pixel in a camera sensor....

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Self-driving cars face uncertain path to U.S. deployment

Posted on Oct 28, 2022 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology

WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Automakers and tech companies face a bumpy road to clearing regulatory roadblocks to deploying...

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Ford thinks driver assist is a safer bet than driverless cars, but it’s fooling itself

Posted on Oct 27, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

When Ford announced yesterday that it was pulling its support for Argo AI, the autonomous driving startup it had financed since 2017, it...

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Autonomous vehicles’ best-kept secret: They need to see farther to drive on the highway

Posted on Oct 27, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

There is a big secret about highway driving that isn’t being told. OEMs know it. Tier 1s know it. AV companies know it. Even...

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