How COVID-19 could open the door for driverless deliveries
The COVID-19 pandemic has put an incredible strain on global supply chains, from medical supplies to household goods, as spikes in demand...
Read MoreAutonomous driving: cities of the future
If there’s one thing Japan is famous for, it’s infrastructure. From the thousands of miles of high-speed rail tracks that duck and weave...
Read MoreGround-penetrating radar (GPR) sensors will be useful for AI self-driving cars, but not likely to strike gold
Recent news reports have heralded the latest research on Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) sensors and suggested that such devices will...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles: Driving regulatory and liability challenges
The development of autonomous vehicle (“AV”) technologies has been a recent focus of automotive and tech companies alike. One of the main...
Read MoreWhy you should wait to buy Tesla’s full self-driving option
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving capability has the potential to change the automotive industry as we know it. However, it’s taking...
Read MoreCoronavirus puts ambitious plans for self-driving cars on the shelf
In two weeks, the coronavirus has brought the entire U.S. auto industry to a screeching halt. When it finally sputters back to life, many...
Read MoreWill a small open-source effort from Japan disrupt the autonomous space?
The article “Linux Beat IBM, will open-source software beat Waymo and Tesla ?” introduced the power of the open-source organizational...
Read MoreThe venerable upstream parable helps in these trying times, and applies to the future of AI self-driving cars
It’s parable time. Some of you might be familiar with a parable that many refer to as the Upstream Parable or alternatively the River...
Read MoreIt took a coronavirus outbreak for self-driving cars to become more appealing
Suddenly, a future full of self-driving cars isn’t just a sci-fi pipe dream. What used to be considered a scary, uncertain...
Read MoreCoronavirus: what differences could driverless vehicles make?
At the moment, it seems that every news story is covering the coronavirus pandemic. Considering this, it seems natural to question how our...
Read MoreLegacy truck players: Ignore autonomous trucking at your peril
The conversation about autonomous vehicles has been hard to ignore over the past few years. Indeed, it’s been almost deafening at times,...
Read MoreComing release of Tesla Autopilot ‘red light’ auto-stopping could trigger a self-driving downward spiral
Human drivers seem to effortlessly be able to detect red lights at traffic signals. Well, most of the time. Sometimes, a driver is...
Read MoreThere’s a baby sea lion on Highway 101, what would a self-driving car do?
There was a bit of extra excitement in the San Francisco Bay Area traffic last year when a baby sea lion decided it was time to checkout...
Read MoreIs virus-inspired eNASCAR a glimpse at the autonomous racing future?
Former General Motors vice chairman and car guru Bob Lutz created a buzz in the auto world three years ago when he described a dystopian...
Read MoreStarsky Robotics failed. Does that mean automated trucking is dead?
I met Stefan Seltz-Axmacher for the first time in November 2015 at the Florida Automated Vehicles Summit. Not long after, we met at the...
Read MoreBreakthroughs in roadway edge computing are the missing link for self-driving car collaboration
Have you ever been driving a car and found yourself reaching a veritable sensory overload in the act of driving the vehicle? It can...
Read MoreWill truck convoying be the first viable commercial application for AV technology?
Industry Background: Trucking has long been seen as a potentially interesting application for Autonomous Vehicle (AV) technology. ...
Read MoreThe truth is that traffic lights won’t be shelved due to self-driving cars
It is a bit of a miracle that each day we drive around and encounter traffic signals that by the mere act of shining a light of differing...
Read MoreVoluntary temporary suspensions of self-driving car roadway tryouts due to Coronavirus have added payoffs
Many of the major self-driving car roadway public tryouts that are taking place on our highways and byways are temporarily being suspended...
Read MoreCoronavirus shows there’s still no such thing as a totally human-free self-driving car
Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make human drivers obsolete. But the coronavirus pandemic is exposing how a technology designed to be...
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