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Autonomous-vehicle demo rides proposed to shape public opinion

Posted on Aug 9, 2021 in Perspective

How does the auto industry get people to warm up today to the prospect of riding in self-driving cars tomorrow? One way to stoke public...

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How should autonomous cars make life-or-death decisions? In the best of worlds, they won’t.

Posted on Aug 6, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

When serial entrepreneur Barry Lunn decided to start a driving software business, he attended several industry insider events where he...

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China targets the robotaxi industry

Posted on Aug 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Chinese tech giant Baidu opened a 2.5-acre test track and operations base for autonomous vehicles last week, its third such site in the...

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China targets the robotaxi industry

Posted on Aug 5, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Chinese tech giant Baidu opened a 2.5-acre test track and operations base for autonomous vehicles last week, its third such site in the...

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Word to the wise: Do not try asking an AI self-driving car to park in the red

Posted on Aug 4, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

You are giving a friend a lift in your car and as you approach their desired drop-off there is no apparent place to idle or park to allow...

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AutoX robotaxis now using NVIDIA DRIVE, NVIDIA acquiring DeepMap, & DiDi booming on NVIDIA DRIVE’s back

Posted on Aug 4, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Five years ago, in a blogging competition about “what will be the most important technological development over the next 10 years that...

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Teleoperation: The “picks and shovels” of the autonomous vehicle gold rush

Posted on Aug 3, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have already racked up thousands of uninterrupted hours of autonomous driving. But there are still plenty of...

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Maven’s CEO Geller maps autonomous trucking timeline

Posted on Aug 2, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

There’s a growing consensus in the automotive and tech worlds that autonomous vehicles will first be commercialized for trucking, delivery...

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Hyperdrive Daily: The driverless shuttle helping Toyota win gold

Posted on Aug 2, 2021 in Buses, Perspective

On a man-made island in Tokyo Bay, a self-driving shuttle weaves through the Olympic flag-strung buildings of the Games Village. It’s a...

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Musing on that rising speculation about wanting to ditch the vaunted topmost Level 5 of the self-driving cars autonomous rating scale

Posted on Aug 2, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Standards are important. That is a general truism and backed up by the tremendous value we place on a myriad of existing and worldwide...

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AI self-driving cars telling you to keep your hands, feet, and head inside the vehicle at all times

Posted on Aug 1, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Here’s an important announcement: Please keep your hands, feet, and head inside the vehicle at all times. That’s something you’ve...

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How ground-penetrating radar could help self-driving cars ‘see’ better

Posted on Jul 31, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

First patented in the early 1900s, ground-penetrating radar has been used by geologists, archaeologists, and aeronautics engineers ever...

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Why Tesla’s ‘beta testing’ puts the public at risk

Posted on Jul 30, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

One of the greatest tricks technology companies ever played was convincing their human guinea pig users that they were a privileged group...

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Teenage driver swerves to avoid squirrel, rams into Abraham Lincoln ancestry home, providing Honest Abe insights for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 30, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Honest Abe. That was the moniker given to our famous statesman and sixteenth president of the United States, namely Abraham Lincoln....

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Paccar’s new CTO sees electrification, autonomy transforming truck market

Posted on Jul 30, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

WASHINGTON — After years of working with emerging technologies in the automotive sector, Paccar Inc.’s new chief technology officer sees a...

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How the commercial vehicle sector is preparing for autonomous driving

Posted on Jul 29, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

The global trucking industry is worth $700 billion annually, and trucking is the number one occupation in no less than 29 U.S. states. In...

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Veritasium wants driverless cars on the road ASAP

Posted on Jul 29, 2021 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

Driverless cars are surely coming in the not too distant future. We don’t exactly know when, but they should already be commercially (and...

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Self-driving technology reaches a crossroads

Posted on Jul 28, 2021 in Perspective

The autonomous vehicle race is turning into a marathon, and the competitors are splintering off in different directions in search of the...

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Industrial Revolution 4.0 and massively distributed manufacturing will be driven via autonomous vehicles and self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 28, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Just about everyone has heard of the Industrial Revolution and how it changed everything. Fewer know that we have presumably been through...

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Why we need cooperative driving in mixed traffic situations

Posted on Jul 27, 2021 in Perspective

Cooperative driving in the context of an interaction between the driver and a semi-autonomous vehicle is not the focus of this article....

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