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News, Analysis & Perspective on Autonomous Vehicles

An AI vision of AVs

Posted on Jun 7, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Recogni Inc, a developer of an artificial intelligence (AI) vision cognition system for autonomous vehicles (AVs), recently attracted...

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AI ethics alarmed at the rise in underhanded juicing or doping of AI machine learning by trusted insiders, including autonomous self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 7, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Juicing and doping. Doping and juicing. We all know about the ongoing and surreptitious use of performance-enhancing drugs that are sadly...

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Can autonomous CVs provide a realistic and sustainable future for last-mile logistics?

Posted on Jun 6, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

With the cost of fuel and labour continuing to increase, industry players are searching for more efficient last-mile delivery solutions....

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The future of transportation and self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 6, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Self-driving cars are already on the road and they’ll become more common in the years ahead. These days, they’re mostly being used in...

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AI ethics and the perplexing societal and legal role of AI activism, including in the case of autonomous self-driving cars

Posted on Jun 4, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

AI activism. Yes, there is such a thing. My formal definition is this: AI activism consists of efforts to try and shape the ongoing and...

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Meet the AI taxi company that’s backed by Ford and Volkswagen

Posted on Jun 4, 2022 in Cars, Perspective

The list of large companies that are investing in driverless vehicles is growing. In this video clip from “The Virtual Opportunities...

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FMCW LiDAR gives the gift of sight

Posted on Jun 3, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

It’s been a while since we spotted those clunky spinning cylinders perched atop autonomous vehicles cruising highways....

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Sensors, steering wheels, intelligent systems: Your vehicle doesn’t need all three

Posted on Jun 2, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

This is Part 2 in a series featuring a conversation with Jesse Levinson, CTO and founder of Zoox. In the previous installment, Levinson...

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Self-driving car companies’ first step to making money isn’t robotaxis

Posted on Jun 1, 2022 in Finance, Perspective, Technology

BEIJING — While governments may be wary of driverless cars, people want to buy the technology, and companies want to cash in....

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AI 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

Posted on Jun 1, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Sometimes evil can readily emerge even in the midst of ardently professed good. You might say that this is a dual-use phenomenon....

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How coatings can improve the visibility of self-driving cars

Posted on May 31, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

To learn more about this and other trends in the automotive coatings sector, we spoke to Roald Johannsen, PPG vice president, Automotive...

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Only NAND flash meets the data-driven demands of next-gen AVs and EVs

Posted on May 31, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Today’s modern vehicles are full of compute, sensors, memory, and storage that not only enhance the driving experience, but help usher in...

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How will LiDAR impact the progression of autonomous driving?

Posted on May 31, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Highly automated and even autonomous vehicles are soon to be a reality for the everyday consumer, but it isn’t simple, and manufacturers...

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As Baidu announces L5 driverless permits, the conversation about functional safety grows

Posted on May 30, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

In April, Chinese technology company Baidu announced its first-ever SAE Level 5 (L5) driverless permits in China for autonomous...

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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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