Citywide gunshot detection could be bolstered via roaming AI self-driving cars
Shots fired! It is certainly startling when you hear a loud bang that sounds like a gunshot. Imagine sitting in your living room and from...
Read MoreMeet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford
Today I’m talking to Bryan Salesky, the co-founder and CEO of Argo AI, a startup that’s trying to build the tech stack for self-driving...
Read MoreWaymo is 99% of the way to self-driving cars. The last 1% is the hardest
Joel Johnson laughs nervously from the backseat when his self-driving taxi stops in the middle of a busy road in suburban Phoenix. The...
Read MoreAutonomous trucks must pair with supply chain automation
The trucking and logistics industry has talked for years about how autonomous vehicles will be the solution to the driver shortage. The...
Read MoreMore efforts are called for management of smart driving: analysts
Sitting in the driver’s seat with breakfast in one hand while the other on the steering wheel, driving at 70-80 kilometers per hour...
Read MoreDriverless? No, but how about the car as co-pilot?
(Bloomberg) — Some 17 years ago, the U.S. military kicked off the race to build a self-driving car by sending a fleet of fledgling...
Read MoreThe Nuro EC-1
Six years ago, I sat in the Google self-driving project’s Firefly vehicle — which I described, at the time, as a “little gumdrop on...
Read MoreTrue Level 5 autonomy isn’t possible, & nobody really even wants that
I know that headline alone is going to give a few people on here an aneurysm, but before you get mad enough to fall over dead (or faint...
Read MoreUsing AI self-driving cars to detect and help curtail eyesore graffiti around us
Graffiti can invoke quite heated debates. Some assert that graffiti is a blight, a blemish, altogether offensive, and ought to be...
Read MoreHere’s why a mouse brain might just be the right solution for attaining full-blown AI self-driving cars
Mighty mouse. I’m referring to the aspect that mice can be amazingly smart, mightily so. We already all would likely agree that mice are...
Read MoreCongestion-free roads might be a self-driving car pipe dream
Traffic snarls are everywhere and seemingly endless. Most major cities throughout the nation endure adverse congestion on their public...
Read MoreWhy sensor technology is the key to autonomous vehicles
We still have a long way to go to achieve roadways filled with self-driving vehicles. The current capabilities of sensors, while helpful,...
Read MoreDriverless cars are proving to be job creators, at least so far
When self-driving car hype peaked a few years ago, so did fears of job destruction that would ensue as the technology took hold. One...
Read MoreA new era of connected vehicle cloud platforms approaches
The automotive industry is on the cusp of immense change. Products are becoming more software-based, customers have new expectations on...
Read MoreUsing artificial intelligence to create aperture radar
Carmakers are seeking to balance cost with capability as they increase the advanced driver assistance capabilities of their cars. Tesla,...
Read MoreThere is increasingly mounting AI technical debt that is going to inevitably sink some self-driving cars
Getting in over your head. That’s what often happens when people take on debt. Shakespeare famously warned us about the dangers of going...
Read MoreRobo-vans could start delivering profits and not just pizza
There are executives across the globe trying to figure out how to profit from autonomous driving technology. For Yu Enyuan, it’s been a...
Read MoreThis parking garage is a high-tech research lab
An urban laboratory is opening inside a Detroit garage to let researchers test new parking technologies for cities coping with shifting...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars would be nowhere without HD maps
Self-driving vehicles may be loaded with sensors and artificial intelligence, but they’re limited without a really good map....
Read MoreHow much more can autonomous cars improve? Waymo!
The rush toward autonomous vehicles once made them seem imminent. But progress has slowed so dramatically that to some observers, autonomy...
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