Autonomous vehicle IP protection — when HAL is driving
Each day, a fleet of lidar-guided, all-electric Chevy Bolts exits a downtown garage to roam San Francisco, attempting to blend in with...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles are driving innovation
As the automotive and technology industries converge more tightly together, it’s accelerating the pace of innovation in the mobility and...
Read MoreNext step in photonic technologies: apply for funding
Photonic technologies including lasers and fibre-optics contribute almost £13 billion to the UK economy. These technologies, which...
Read MoreEgo-motion and localization interface design for automated/autonomous driving
For automated driving, which ranges all the way up to the autonomous-driving level, it’s essential that information about the current...
Read MoreBMW builds its own IT platform to process data from its autonomous vehicles
A self-driving vehicle needs more than additional hardware, these vehicles require access to vast amounts of quality data, along with...
Read MoreAutonomy: OEMs can prepare to thrive in changing world
Most public discussion of self-driving or autonomous vehicles has focused primarily on engineering, logistics and technical feasibility....
Read MoreThe war to remotely control self-driving cars heats up
EVEN IN THE middle of the day, the 50-mile trip from San Francisco to San Jose is a pain. Like a toddler, Bay Area driving toggles between...
Read MoreHow malevolent machine learning could derail AI
Artificial intelligence won’t revolutionize anything if hackers can mess with it. That’s the warning from Dawn Song, a professor at UC...
Read MoreVelodyne achieves $0.5 billion in lidar sensors shipped
Velodyne is the highest volume supplier of lidar sensors to the automotive industry. In an in-depth article, David Hall spoke to Forbes...
Read MoreLidar gets rid of moving parts thanks to liquid-crystal metasurfaces
The market for lidar sensors for use in autonomous vehicles is now hotly contested; almost every month a new supplier appears on the...
Read MoreRicardo develops technology to avoid motion sickness in autonomous vehicles
With a widespread public expectation that autonomous vehicles will offer comfort levels approaching those of a living room environment,...
Read MoreVelodyne’s Godfather of laser sensors hits $500 million milestone, sets his sights on safer self-driving cars
Spinning laser lidar sensors, invented by Velodyne’s David Hall more than a decade ago, helped kick off a race to create self-driving...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicle timing is a MEMS thing
Engineering is always about tradeoffs, but autonomous vehicles are pushing that to the limit with conflicting requirements....
Read MoreOn the ‘edge’ with driverless cars
How soon will it be before you pull up at a stop light in your car, and the car next to you has no one behind the wheel? Maybe sooner than...
Read MoreReducing human error road accidents with automotive technology
Human error in road accidents is estimated at 94 percent, making mistakes by drivers a major concern for public safety. In order to get a...
Read MoreON Semiconductor and 3M collaborate to accelerate automated vehicle technology
ON Semiconductor and 3M have mutually announced their partnership to help improve the navigation systems in vehicles equipped with...
Read MoreFord develops lighting signals for driverless cars to ‘speak’ to pedestrians
When it comes to signaling, light is one of the most reliable methods for catching someone’s attention in busy locations. This...
Read MoreDriverless trucks ride at night with TuSimple’s improved camera system
In its quest to roll out the country’s first commercialized fleet of autonomous trucks, TuSimple has added an improved camera and vision...
Read MoreToyota doubles down on Nvidia tech for self-driving cars
Toyota is deepening its relationship with Nvidia as the automaker, and its research arms in Japan and the U.S., ramps up its autonomous...
Read MoreA new startup aims to be a ‘Designated Driver’ for autonomous vehicles in need of assistance
In 1997, General Motors introduced OnStar, a cellular communications system allowing a driver to connect to a human operator at the touch...
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