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UCI researchers: Autonomous vehicles can be tricked into dangerous driving behavior

Posted on May 30, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

When a driverless car is in motion, one faulty decision by its collision-avoidance system can lead to disaster, but researchers at the...

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When self-driving cars crash, who’s responsible? Courts need to know what’s inside the ‘black box’

Posted on May 29, 2022 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation

The first serious accident involving a self-driving car in Australia occurred in March this year. A pedestrian suffered life-threatening...

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The big new idea for making self-driving cars that can go anywhere

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

Four years ago, Alex Kendall sat in a car on a small road in the British countryside and took his hands off the wheel. The car, equipped...

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Tesla Full Self Driving (Beta) performance in rural Northern Wisconsin

Posted on May 26, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

I’ve been testing Tesla’s FSD Beta obsessively for 175 days in Utah and California metropolitan areas, and now in rural Northern Wisconsin...

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EFF: Don’t let police turn our cars into surveillance platforms

Posted on May 25, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an important warning for us about autonomous vehicles, as well as other vehicles with...

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AI ethics and the quagmire of whether you have a legal right to know of AI inferences about you, including those via AI-based self-driving cars

Posted on May 25, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Inferences, love them or hate them. You decide. One thing that seems abundantly clear is that we cannot live without inferences. As...

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WM Motor founder Freeman Shen: No fees for autonomous driving yet

Posted on May 24, 2022 in Cars, Perspective

Freeman Shen, the founder, chairman and CEO of Shanghai-based electric vehicle firm WM Motor, responded on Monday afternoon to the...

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How can driving dynamics keep up with the autonomous, electric revolution?

Posted on May 24, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Many of the greatest innovations and advancements in the automotive sector in the 21st century have been about improving performance and...

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Michigan plans special robocar/ADAS smart highway on I-94; a dumb highway is better

Posted on May 23, 2022 in Infrastructure, Perspective, Technology

A recent announcement from the state of Michigan and the Cavnue consortium (Pronounced “cavenue”) outlines how it has raised $130M and...

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AI ethics unnervingly asking whether AI biases are insidiously hiding societal power dynamics, including for AI self-driving cars

Posted on May 22, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Hiding in plain sight. Have you ever heard that line before? Probably so. It can have various meanings, though the most common...

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Where the billions spent on autonomous vehicles by U.S. and Chinese giants is heading

Posted on May 21, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

For years, Alphabet’s Waymo and others leaders have promised autonomous vehicles are just around the bend. But that future has not arrived...

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Luminar’s Austin Russell: ‘We probably shouldn’t have existed’ but lidar will drive next-gen safety anyway

Posted on May 20, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

At TC Sessions: Mobility, Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell admitted that his now successful company was founded in hubris, but that...

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Waymo: Cities, freeways, airports: How we’ve built a scalable autonomous driver

Posted on May 19, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Being an experienced driver means knowing how to handle a variety of road situations that can happen anytime, anywhere. At Waymo, we’re...

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Simulations and autonomous driving, with Ansible Motion

Posted on May 19, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Autonomous driving is a key talking point within the industry, but as many struggle to master the challenge of its evolution from current...

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States diverge on AV regulation. How much is too much?

Posted on May 19, 2022 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology

Winding roads lie ahead for autonomous vehicles, and not just in the literal sense. The landscape is also a mish-mash of regulation,...

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AI ethics forewarns don’t be caught in machine learning myopia by overlooking neuro-symbolic AI, including for autonomous self-driving cars

Posted on May 19, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Some say this town isn’t big enough for both of them. What am I referring to? Well, it could be that I am invoking an ever-popular and...

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AI ethics tempted but hesitant to use AI adversarial attacks against the evils of machine learning, including for self-driving cars

Posted on May 16, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

It is widely accepted sage wisdom to garner as much as you can about your adversaries. Frederick The Great, the famous king of Prussia and...

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Autonomous driving: Do we need a common language to move forward?

Posted on May 16, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Autonomous, automated, self-driving or driverless – it all means the same thing, right? At the moment, these terms are all used...

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Tesla Full Self Driving Beta: How close to Level 5 autonomy? (Readers chime in)

Posted on May 14, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

I just spent three 10 hour days driving 1500 miles from Utah to Wisconsin in my long-range Tesla Model 3. With two heavy mountain e-bikes...

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The problem with self-driving cars

Posted on May 14, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Aka: Why this burning money pit has failed to produce meaningful results for decades. The future is here, and it looks nothing like we...

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