Congestion-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...
Read MoreAutonomous-vehicle demo rides proposed to shape public opinion
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...
Read MoreHow should autonomous cars make life-or-death decisions? In the best of worlds, they won’t.
When serial entrepreneur Barry Lunn decided to start a driving software business, he attended several industry insider events where he...
Read MoreChina targets the robotaxi industry
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...
Read MoreChina targets the robotaxi industry
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...
Read MoreWord to the wise: Do not try asking an AI self-driving car to park in the red
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...
Read MoreAutoX robotaxis now using NVIDIA DRIVE, NVIDIA acquiring DeepMap, & DiDi booming on NVIDIA DRIVE’s back
Five years ago, in a blogging competition about “what will be the most important technological development over the next 10 years that...
Read MoreTeleoperation: The “picks and shovels” of the autonomous vehicle gold rush
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have already racked up thousands of uninterrupted hours of autonomous driving. But there are still plenty of...
Read MoreMaven’s CEO Geller maps autonomous trucking timeline
There’s a growing consensus in the automotive and tech worlds that autonomous vehicles will first be commercialized for trucking, delivery...
Read MoreHyperdrive Daily: The driverless shuttle helping Toyota win gold
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...
Read MoreMusing on that rising speculation about wanting to ditch the vaunted topmost Level 5 of the self-driving cars autonomous rating scale
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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