Waymo’s Bay Area depot is a glimpse of autonomous vehicle future
They say seeing is believing. On a brisk and sunny February morning, a ride around San Francisco in a Waymo fully autonomous vehicle and a...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars: an epidemic of questionable assertions
Self-driving vehicles require relentless scrutiny. However, some fundamental misunderstandings cause industry observers to make broad...
Read MoreJensen Huang interview: Nvidia’s post-Arm strategy, Omniverse, and self-driving cars
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang didn’t get to fulfill his dream of acquiring Arm for $80 billion. Regulators held the deal up and Huang called off...
Read MorePushing the boundaries of AI ethics into the topsy-turvy world of radical ethical AI, potentially exemplified via the use case of vaunted AI-based self-driving cars
Has the prevailing tenor and attention of today’s widely emerging semblance of AI Ethics gotten into a veritable rut? Some seem to...
Read MoreCoBank report suggests self-driving vehicles could easily overwhelm current data center market
Widespread adoption of self-driving EVs faces several significant barriers including social acceptance, safety and regulatory...
Read MoreThis super-realistic virtual world is a driving school for AI
Building driverless cars is a slow and expensive business. After years of effort and billions of dollars of investment, the technology is...
Read MoreMoral judgments about AI will shape legal and ethical assignment of blame, including the particular use case of AI-based self-driving cars
Who are you going to blame? That question comes up quite a bit when talking about AI. You see if an AI system goes awry and causes some...
Read MoreTraining autonomous vehicles requires more than simulation
Last year, Waabi, a startup developing autonomous vehicle technology, launched out of stealth with $83.5 million in venture funding....
Read MoreBaidu’s self-driving vehicles take a turn with Olympics showcase
Cities usually have many reasons for bidding to host major sports events like the Olympics, but demonstrating to the world the best the...
Read MoreFrom sci-fi to main streets: autonomous vehicles case studies from around the globe
Once considered a concept out of sci-fi, autonomous vehicles (AVs) are making a splash across the globe. With companies taking a focused...
Read MoreTesla may be ‘losing faith’ in how soon self-driving will arrive
(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc.’s expectation for the amount of revenue it will recognize from automated-driving software appears to have...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles and their impact on the economy
You can now hitch a free ride in a driverless vehicle on the streets of San Francisco. Waymo, Google’s self-driving car company, has begun...
Read MoreThe ethical AI question of whether self-driving cars ought to be a good samaritan and forewarn when human-driven cars are going to crash into each other
Mind your own business. That’s a common refrain about not sticking your nose into the activities of others. Extend a helping hand....
Read MoreTesla vs. robotaxis: Who’s winning the autonomous vehicle race?
We’re on the edge of a major social shift in mobility. Autonomous vehicles are going to change our lives. Commutes will be unrecognizable,...
Read MoreTesla is crazy to not make full use of maps to improve ‘F’ self-driving
Almost every self-driving car team makes use of pre-computed maps, combined with what their sensors see, to help them understand the road...
Read MoreAutonomous taxis are safer than Tesla’s ‘self-driving’ tech
Cars are evolving quickly — but it’s important that people know the difference between ADAS and autonomous driving. It’s also important...
Read MoreFootball taunting penalties expected at Super Bowl which brings up catchy ethical AI taunting possibilities, including for autonomous self-driving cars
Some insist that taunting is entirely in the eye of the beholder. Ironically, of sorts, I suppose you might angrily claim that making that...
Read MoreDespite a drop in how many companies are testing autonomous driving on California roads, miles driven are way up
Fewer companies tested autonomous vehicles on California’s public roads last year versus the one before — and yet they logged nearly twice...
Read MoreCalifornia robocar ‘disengagement’ reports tell us a little
Each year, the state of California requires all parties testing self-driving car systems in California report all the times their system...
Read MoreWhat’s the difference between autonomous vehicles and driver-assistance tech?
Your new car is packed with a bunch of driver-assist features. But that doesn’t exactly make it an autonomous vehicle. So what’s the...
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