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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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Design insights: Testing the autonomous vehicle; identifying autonomous driving benefits

Posted on Jul 27, 2021 in Perspective

The impetus toward autonomous driving has endless possibilities…and even more possible potholes. Evaluating the scenarios of everyday...

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Who’s set to win Big Tech’s ‘insanely hot’ race to self-driving trucks?

Posted on Jul 26, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

Self-driving trucks have threatened to upend the freight industry for years, but a new report on the pace of patents within the tech...

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Getting banned from riding in AI self-driving cars for the rest of your entire life

Posted on Jul 26, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

People keep getting banned for doing the darndest and seemingly dumbest of acts. Oftentimes getting banned for the rest of their entire...

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3 companies moving forward with robotaxis as Tesla delays

Posted on Jul 26, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and the company’s investors have high hopes for so-called “robotaxis,” self-driving vehicles that...

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Trucks move past cars on the road to autonomy

Posted on Jul 25, 2021 in Perspective, Trucks

IN 2016, THREE veterans of the still young autonomous vehicle industry formed Aurora, a startup focused on developing self-driving cars....

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Tesla Full Self-Driving explained: Its capabilities, cost and puzzling over-promise

Posted on Jul 23, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

Perhaps the most overly optimistic technology in all of the auto industry is Tesla’s Full Self-Driving package. No car for sale to...

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That video of a young man pushing up a manhole cover and getting knocked down into the void by a passing vehicle provides stout lessons for AI self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 23, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

Have you been asked about manhole covers in any of your recent high-tech company job interviews? Probably you have. Yes, oddly enough,...

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Tesla’s ‘Full Self Driving’ push is okay in California—because it’s not real self-driving

Posted on Jul 22, 2021 in Perspective, Technology

If a car company tells people they can sign up to add a feature to their vehicle dubbed “full self driving” it’s reasonable to expect...

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Semi-autonomous vehicles: the short-term solution to restart ride-sharing innovation

Posted on Jul 19, 2021 in Perspective

Ride-share companies took a massive hit during the pandemic, with decreased ridership across the board. Research published in January 2021...

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When AI self-driving cars sue due to dangerous roadway conditions

Posted on Jul 19, 2021 in Cars, Perspective

You are driving along on a highway and enjoying the open road. Up ahead, a curve is coming. You are currently zipping along at the topmost...

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