An autonomous vehicle is a new medium
“You can have many views of what a computer is. My particular view is that a computer is a new medium. (…) A computer will be in the...
Read MoreMaybe Baby Yoda ought to be adorned on the hood of every self-driving car
Baby Yoda has taken the world by storm. Headlines have blared that resistance is futile when trying to defy the mind-force allure of Baby...
Read MoreThese Chinese autonomous vehicle start-ups are keeping their eye on the driverless road
In the auto industry, the dream of high-level automation free from human intervention is as strong as ever. The concept dates back eight...
Read MoreDriverless cars gain speed, despite global slowdown
Automakers Volkswagen, Ford, and General Motors are betting billions that autonomous driving will get us moving again....
Read MoreVideo of man on hood of a semi-truck barreling down a Florida highway has insights for self-driving cars
Multiple videos captured an unlikely scene on Saturday when a semi-truck was spotted barreling along a Florida highway with a man clinging...
Read MoreQ&A: DeepRoute works toward an easier, safer way to develop self-driving cars
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic caused governments, manufacturers, schools and consumer businesses to close up shop for a long...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars can be a boon for those with disabilities
A new study has begun in Pittsburgh to study the impact of self-driving cars on those with disabilities. I’m going to skip to the end and...
Read MoreWill camera startupLight give autonomous vehicles better vision than Lidar?
In 2013, Rajiv Laroia and Dave Grannan started Light, a company that aimed to disrupt the tiny camera market. The ultimate goal was to...
Read MoreAI needs to gain famed MacGyver shrewdness, including for AI self-driving cars
MacGyver solved it again! Who or what is a MacGyver, you might wonder? Well, most people have heard of MacGyver, the TV series and main...
Read MoreCovid-19 puts autonomous vehicle vision on hold
The joint announcement made by Mobileye and Ford two weeks ago sounded as if they were on the verge of a technological breakthrough....
Read MorePandemic won’t drive autonomous vehicles away
The uncomfortable truth about self-driving cars is that there is still not a clear, revenue-generating business model that offsets high...
Read MoreWashington impedes progress on self-driving cars
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Imagine how different the discussion about returning to the office or school would be if we could deploy...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicle reporting data is driving AV innovation right off the road
At the end of every calendar year, the complaints from autonomous vehicle companies start piling up. This annual tradition is the result...
Read More3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles
As part of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future’s new series of research briefs, Professor John Leonard teamed with professor of...
Read MoreStaying connected: Does autonomous tech bring us together?
Michael Bless, author and historian of science at Vanderbilt University, is right to highlight the huge impact of technology. In even just...
Read MoreLiDARs for self-driving vehicles: a technological arms race
A fiery debate has been raging in the autonomous driving world about the role of LiDAR in the future of self-driving cars: an unparalleled...
Read MoreAdvanced tolling maybe the killer app for autonomous vehicle test tracks
Since the days of the DARPA grand challenge, Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Technology has generated a great deal of excitement. Companies such...
Read MoreThe top five ugliest cars today and why ride-looks might ultimately disappear due to AI self-driving cars
Is your car ugly? I don’t mean whether it possibly has a smattering of unsightly dents or dings, nor whether the paint is chipped and...
Read MoreLatest Tesla software update: Autopilot changes, successes, & fails
There’s no contesting the fact that Tesla updates its Autopilot driver-assist technology on a regular basis. Moreover, the best part...
Read MoreWhy self-driving cars might never become a commodity
Studies from the American National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) show that human error (e.g., misjudgment, speeding,...
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