While COVID-19 batters the airlines, driverless car technology marches on
A while back, my colleague and I wrote an article about how driverless cars will disrupt the airline industry. We were not the first ones...
Read MoreData storage and AI are driving the evolution of autonomous cars
As vehicles become more connected and able to process data for AI-based decision making, automakers have an incredible opportunity to...
Read MoreNavy releases UFO videos, AI self-driving cars might solve these mysteries
Last week, the Navy released some UFO videos. The videos have stoked quite a mystery. First, the backstory....
Read MoreU.S. states are allowing automated follower truck platooning while the Swedes may lead in Europe
During the last year, the level of activity and funding in truck automation in general has surged while the rest of the Automated Driving...
Read MoreAI might trick us by pretending to be dimwitted, including for self-driving cars
AI is not yet akin to human intelligence and the odds are that we are a long way distant from the promise of such vaunted capabilities....
Read MoreSelf-driving cars in the U.S. are delivering supplies – and gathering data – during COVID-19
Self-driving cars, trucks, sidewalk robots and shuttles are rolling out of the labs and parking garages and onto American streets to help...
Read MoreDriving to nowhere: Why we purposely use our cars for purposeless driving, and the impact for self-driving cars
The drive to nowhere. The latest media reporting indicates that people are increasingly opting to go for drives to escape their...
Read MoreWhy simulation is the cornerstone of autonomous vehicle development
A crucial component of ‘Vision Zero’ is thought to be the autonomous vehicle (AV). Not only are AVs likely to run on cleaner, electric...
Read MoreSelf-driving vehicles get in on the delivery scene amid COVID-19
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Self-driving cars, trucks, sidewalk robots and shuttles are rolling out of the labs and parking garages...
Read MoreCars could go completely driverless ‘very soon,’ says CEO of Chinese autonomous driving tech start-up
The time that cars could go completely driverless is coming “very soon,” according to Jianxiong Xiao, CEO and founder of AutoX, a...
Read MoreDo autonomous vehicles need LiDAR??
In Part 1 (published 4/12/2020), I explored the parallels between the automotive LiDAR and telecom optics investment booms, and posited...
Read MoreThe challenges of developing autonomous vehicles during a pandemic
April 28, 2020 In the months since the coronavirus prompted shelter-in-place orders around the world, entire companies, industries, and...
Read MoreDelivery robots aren’t ready—when they could be needed most
AMERICANS CHOOSING TO —or forced to—stay inside during the Covid-19 pandemic are leaning heavily on food delivery. Instacart sales soared...
Read MoreSelf-driving startups work through health crisis
Investor-funded startups competing hard to commercialize highly automated heavy-duty trucks found themselves having to deal with...
Read MoreTesla and owners go reckless again with new automated driving feature
Let me be absolutely clear. Any manufacturer of any product that pushes out a safety critical feature that is not fully developed, tested...
Read MoreGlobalData: COVID-19 puts brakes on driverless cars
In recent years, the automotive industry has been addressing the megatrends set to transform long-term urban mobility and the industry,...
Read MoreWith Baidu and Deepblue’sdriverless commercial landing, WIMI Hologram Cloud (NASDAQ:WIMI) is focusing on AI visual service 5G market
The development of the automatic driving industry is becoming the focus of the competition among the first tier cities in China. After...
Read MoreWill autonomous vehicles always be a pipedream?
Five years ago, almost every manufacturer was making presentations about autonomous vehicles and how they would be on the road by 2020....
Read MoreWhy Waymo gave up on driver-monitored Autopilot
Around 6 months after Tesla’s Autonomy Day, Waymo CEO John Krafcik gave a presentation to German auto giants that he was seeking to...
Read MoreDangers await self-driving car tryouts as post-pandemic roadway efforts get underway
Many parts of the economy and commercial industry have been brought to a temporary halt as a result of the pandemic, including the...
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