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Those fish that rained down from the skies on a Texas town was not a fishy tale (it happened), netting some quite catchy insights for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jan 6, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Sometimes, when it rains, it pours. Those raindrops keep falling on your head, though if you are inside your car the odds are that the...

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Cadillac’s autonomous future looks too rich for my blood

Posted on Jan 5, 2022 in Cars, Perspective

Cadillac announced a pair of autonomous vehicle concepts that are a definite improvement over last year’s toaster-shaped thingamajig, but...

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The road to affordable autonomous mobility

Posted on Jan 3, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Reports, Technology

As autonomous vehicle services roll out and scale, the pace and nature of that transition have significant implications across the...

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Black box data could prove lynchpin to autonomous vehicle success

Posted on Jan 3, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

There has been considerable hype over the last few years about fully autonomous vehicles merging onto the roads, but the reality is that...

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Be resolute to reduce that nighttime artificial light pollution, which AI self-driving cars can help solve (but doing so will be tricky)

Posted on Jan 2, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Let there be darkness. That is the potential catchphrase for those that are concerned about nighttime light pollution. More formerly known...

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Carwow: why self-driving cars are a lie

Posted on Jan 2, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Videos & Podcasts

Self-driving vehicles appear to be the next big step in transportation. Less human error, decreased congestion and increased productivity...

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Crashing the self-driving party of Tesla & co.

Posted on Dec 30, 2021 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Self-driving cars — and their current hands-free precursors from the likes of Tesla TSLA -1.5%, Cadillac, Audi, and Ford — may be...

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Driverless cars and AI ethics

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

In my last blog, I discussed the market growth of driverless cars, and identified a number of leading companies investing globally in this...

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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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