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Alexa shockingly tells 10-year-old girl to put a penny into an electrical socket, which provides important lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Dec 29, 2021 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Hey, Alexa, be careful about what you say, especially to kids. A recent news report indicates that via a household Echo Dot, Alexa urged a...

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Driverless car market leaders innovating the transportation industry

Posted on Dec 29, 2021 in Cars, Markets, Perspective, Technology

An autonomous car is one that can sense its surroundings and drive itself without the help of humans. It is not required for a human...

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Tesla’s FSD Beta 10.8 in Detroit: are there obvious improvements?

Posted on Dec 28, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Browsing through recent social media posts suggest that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta Version 10.8 is a vast improvement over...

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2021 roundup: year of the self-driving shuttle

Posted on Dec 28, 2021 in Buses, Perspective

Over the course of this year, shuttles became an extremely popular platform for testing self-driving technologies. While there has been...

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China tests first automotive grade driverless delivery vehicle equipped with Huawei MDC

Posted on Dec 27, 2021 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

A driverless delivery vehicle named “Pioneer” developed by Juzhen Data Tech has started alpha testing for application scenarios at the...

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Technologies for making AVs safer in bad weather

Posted on Dec 27, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Autonomous vehicles hold the potential to make our roads safer, but first, autonomous and semi-autonomous systems must overcome a range of...

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How to scale up autonomous deliveries

Posted on Dec 27, 2021 in Markets, Perspective, Policy & Regulation

In the mid 2010’s, many were predicting that mass market fully autonomous vehicles were just around the corner. With rollouts of...

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Why autonomous vehicles won’t be taking over Ontario’s city streets in 2022

Posted on Dec 27, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

The drive to put autonomous vehicles on the market has sped up over the last decade but that doesn’t mean self-driving cars will be...

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Learn what makes a self-driving car autonomous

Posted on Dec 26, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Tesla does not build self-driving cars. Neither does General Motors, nor Ford. In fact, there isn’t a single self-driving car on...

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Dinner is servoed

Posted on Dec 24, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

I’ve been up to my neck in CES planning — and, I suppose, unplanning this week. There’s a strange disconnect getting pitches for the one...

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At-fault robotaxi accidents for Waymo, Pony.AI, Olli and what they mean for the future

Posted on Dec 23, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Three different robotaxi-related accidents at the end of this year raise some interesting issues about what they mean going forward. This...

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Observant human drivers cleverly watch tall trucks in traffic so as to reveal up ahead roadway snafus, which astute AI self-driving cars ought to do likewise

Posted on Dec 23, 2021 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Let’s go on a safari! As you head out onto the savanna, you keenly observe that the area is rife with wildlife. Whoa, right over there is...

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Five ways technology will change transportation in 2022

Posted on Dec 22, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

As we reflect on two consecutive years of community disruption, one area has remained a critical lifeline: our transportation systems....

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Apple Car, with wave of recent departures, faces make-or-break 2022

Posted on Dec 22, 2021 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

​​​​It’s hard to believe we’re approaching year eight of Apple’s work on a self-driving car. For all the fits and starts, 2022 could prove...

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A tale for the season: the whimsical parable of the hedgehog and the fox sheds dazzling light on AI advances and those majestically emerging self-driving cars

Posted on Dec 21, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

There is a famous line by an Ancient Greek poet named Archilochus that goes something like this: Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum...

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Autonomous trucks beat cars for safety and cybersecurity

Posted on Dec 20, 2021 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

For the AV industry, the drive to bring autonomous vehicles to the real world has been a long journey marked by myriad twists and turns....

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The 5 biggest connected and autonomous vehicle trends in 2022

Posted on Dec 20, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Autonomous driving promises a future where road traffic accidents and speeding tickets are no longer a feature of life. Mobility will be...

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Disabled passengers were promised autonomous vehicles — they’re still waiting

Posted on Dec 20, 2021 in Perspective

For years, people with disabilities have been promised that autonomous vehicles are right around the corner. Self-driving cars will open...

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Here’s how advances in ambient intelligence will make riding in AI self-driving cars quite cozy, like a pleasing lullaby for us all

Posted on Dec 18, 2021 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

You invite someone over to your home. If you are the type of host that cares about providing a cozy experience, you will attempt to...

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Could autonomous vehicles put last-mile delivery on the fast track?

Posted on Dec 17, 2021 in Perspective

Transport, integral to our daily lives, is currently undergoing a structural reform – towards digitalization and decarbonization. The...

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