AI as being truthful or a liar, including while at the wheel of self-driving cars
Will AI lie to you? Sure, why not. Most people assume that AI is dispassionate, unbiased, objective rather than subjective, and...
Read MoreWhere are we with public sentiment on autonomous vehicles?
There is a political and economic value to the sentiment of the everyday transportation user. Does the transportation that I have...
Read More10 robotaxi services — existing & planned
I cover self-driving vehicles and robotaxis quite frequently as part of this job. In fact, I think we were using the term “robotaxi”...
Read MoreThe moral & ethical considerations of self-driving vehicles
A few days ago, my esteemed colleague Maarten Vinkhuyzen posted an excellent article on self-driving systems that explores the difference...
Read MoreBeijing makes self-driving vehicles a priority
AutoX, a Chinese autonomous vehicle startup, has announced the launch of a fleet of 100 self-driving RoboTaxis in Shanghai’s Jiading...
Read MoreCOMMENT: How to get consumers ready for autonomous vehicles
Autonomous vehicles are the future of the automotive industry, with car companies from Tesla to Fiat Chrysler and Volkswagen developing...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicle vision edging closer to reality with verification by Israel’s Foretellix
Twelve years after their revolutionary product changed the chip industry and resulted in a $315 million exit, the team that achieved...
Read MoreA move for driverless mass transit hits speed bumps
SHARAD AGARWAL HAS a prediction about driverless vehicles: “Autonomous public transportation is going to happen,” he says, “and it’s going...
Read MoreHow self-driving systems are ushering in a new era of transportation
Fueled by the need to improve road safety, consumer demand for smarter driving technologies has soared. Every year over one million people...
Read MoreCollecting crash data to help autonomous cars with rare events
Crashes are rare events. Yes, there are nearly six million (6M) crashes every year in the United States alone. But in a non-coronavirus...
Read MoreToyota and Amazon expand tie-up with eye on future car technology
NEW YORK/DETROIT/BANGALORE – Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday it has agreed with an affiliate of Amazon.com to expand their collaboration as...
Read MoreConnected cars: First step toward autonomous driving
Autonomous vehicle technology is expected to greatly impact connected cars, as much more data will come from an AV, and much more data and...
Read MoreRepurposed: the self-driving Linden LEAP shuttle
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, plans for the Linden LEAP autonomous shuttle have changed from transporting people to transporting...
Read MoreWhy excessive AI politeness could be oddly inconsiderate, implications too for self-driving cars
Does it seem to you that civility and politeness are on the wane? Many would surely agree that politeness appears to have been placed on...
Read MoreHow to make cities ready for autonomous vehicles, and AVs ready for cities
For any disruptive technology, targeted at any market, there must be a ‘killer app’: a concrete use-case with a well-defined ROI to...
Read MoreDrive-in theaters are coming back, but self-driving cars could be an outdoor movie spoilsport
One of the “new normal” predictions is that indoor movie theatre going will tend to gravitate toward attending outdoor drive-ins. That is...
Read MorePandemic will move autonomous vehicle development forward, J.D. Power says
Automotive engineers and large elements of the automotive press are very excited about the idea of production vehicles that can operate...
Read MoreUrban autonomy: The next stage of self-driving
The auto industry is undergoing a major shift, from human-driven cars to autonomous vehicles (AV). Subsequently, the transportation...
Read MoreMental wayfinding has unexpected AI importance, including for self-driving cars
Do you know where you are right now The odds are that you do. I don’t mean that you perhaps know that you are at a particular street...
Read MoreNvidia’s self-driving vehicle approach — from Tesla to DHL to Mercedes
I dove into Waymo’s automotive partnerships and Mobile’s automotive partnerships this week, and I wanted to do the same with Nvidia....
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