Self-driving car companies’ first step to making money isn’t robotaxis
BEIJING — While governments may be wary of driverless cars, people want to buy the technology, and companies want to cash in....
Read MoreAI ethics and legal AI experts greatly alarmed about dual-use AI which empowers so-called doctor evil projects, including possibly for AI self-driving cars
Sometimes evil can readily emerge even in the midst of ardently professed good. You might say that this is a dual-use phenomenon....
Read MoreHow coatings can improve the visibility of self-driving cars
To learn more about this and other trends in the automotive coatings sector, we spoke to Roald Johannsen, PPG vice president, Automotive...
Read MoreOnly NAND flash meets the data-driven demands of next-gen AVs and EVs
Today’s modern vehicles are full of compute, sensors, memory, and storage that not only enhance the driving experience, but help usher in...
Read MoreHow will LiDAR impact the progression of autonomous driving?
Highly automated and even autonomous vehicles are soon to be a reality for the everyday consumer, but it isn’t simple, and manufacturers...
Read MoreAs Baidu announces L5 driverless permits, the conversation about functional safety grows
In April, Chinese technology company Baidu announced its first-ever SAE Level 5 (L5) driverless permits in China for autonomous...
Read MoreUCI researchers: Autonomous vehicles can be tricked into dangerous driving behavior
When a driverless car is in motion, one faulty decision by its collision-avoidance system can lead to disaster, but researchers at the...
Read MoreWhen self-driving cars crash, who’s responsible? Courts need to know what’s inside the ‘black box’
The first serious accident involving a self-driving car in Australia occurred in March this year. A pedestrian suffered life-threatening...
Read MoreThe big new idea for making self-driving cars that can go anywhere
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...
Read MoreTesla Full Self Driving (Beta) performance in rural Northern Wisconsin
I’ve been testing Tesla’s FSD Beta obsessively for 175 days in Utah and California metropolitan areas, and now in rural Northern Wisconsin...
Read MoreEFF: Don’t let police turn our cars into surveillance platforms
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has an important warning for us about autonomous vehicles, as well as other vehicles with...
Read MoreAI 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
Inferences, love them or hate them. You decide. One thing that seems abundantly clear is that we cannot live without inferences. As...
Read MoreWM Motor founder Freeman Shen: No fees for autonomous driving yet
Freeman Shen, the founder, chairman and CEO of Shanghai-based electric vehicle firm WM Motor, responded on Monday afternoon to the...
Read MoreHow can driving dynamics keep up with the autonomous, electric revolution?
Many of the greatest innovations and advancements in the automotive sector in the 21st century have been about improving performance and...
Read MoreMichigan plans special robocar/ADAS smart highway on I-94; a dumb highway is better
A recent announcement from the state of Michigan and the Cavnue consortium (Pronounced “cavenue”) outlines how it has raised $130M and...
Read MoreAI ethics unnervingly asking whether AI biases are insidiously hiding societal power dynamics, including for AI self-driving cars
Hiding in plain sight. Have you ever heard that line before? Probably so. It can have various meanings, though the most common...
Read MoreWhere the billions spent on autonomous vehicles by U.S. and Chinese giants is heading
For years, Alphabet’s Waymo and others leaders have promised autonomous vehicles are just around the bend. But that future has not arrived...
Read MoreLuminar’s Austin Russell: ‘We probably shouldn’t have existed’ but lidar will drive next-gen safety anyway
At TC Sessions: Mobility, Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell admitted that his now successful company was founded in hubris, but that...
Read MoreWaymo: Cities, freeways, airports: How we’ve built a scalable autonomous driver
Being an experienced driver means knowing how to handle a variety of road situations that can happen anytime, anywhere. At Waymo, we’re...
Read MoreSimulations and autonomous driving, with Ansible Motion
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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