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How jaywalking could jam up the era of self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 31, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Imagine Manhattan without jaywalking. Or Los Angeles freeways without speeding, or Moscow without grinding traffic. If self-driving cars...

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Customers are not fully prepared for electric and autonomous vehicles: Study

Posted on Jul 31, 2019 in Cars, News, Perspective

Despite the auto manufacturers and technology companies spending billions on self-driving technology and electric vehicles, customers are...

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Relax, experts say it’s at least a decade before you can buy a self-driving vehicle

Posted on Jul 30, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The bloom is coming off the rose when it comes to expecting self-driving vehicles to zip around in large numbers. In fact, a new survey of...

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You might be waiting a while for “full self-driving approval” to stream Netflix in a moving Tesla

Posted on Jul 29, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Tesla vehicles boast some of the biggest embedded in-dash screens on the market and practically beg you to sit back, Netflix and chill....

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A new report says that autonomous cars could worsen congestion, driving, and parking problems

Posted on Jul 29, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The report on preparation in Israel for the smart transport revolution states, ‘There is a palpable risk that the smart transport...

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How to engineer a self-driving car

Posted on Jul 29, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

If you are eyeing a career on the software side of self-driving cars, then you are about to gatecrash into an artificial intelligence...

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Cruise’s modified strategy marks a mega phase shift in self-driving car industry

Posted on Jul 29, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

When you are knee-deep in a particular industry it can be difficult at times to notice when an overall change or shift is taking place....

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How safe do self-driving vehicles need to be?

Posted on Jul 28, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

ORLANDO — For self-driving vehicles, safety remains in the eye of the beholder. Dozens of companies are rolling out hundreds of autonomous...

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Here’s why kids may ride bikes more because of self-driving cars

Posted on Jul 28, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

A recent study reported that kids in the United States are no longer riding their bikes as much as they used to and the annual numbers...

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Ethics in the age of autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jul 26, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Megan, Oliver and Clark talk through how companies should be thinking about ethics when building out the self-driving ecosystem, while...

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What it is really like being inside a self-driving car on our public roadways

Posted on Jul 25, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

I got into a discussion recently about the mysteries of self-driving cars. It happened while I was on a cross-country flight, prompted by...

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1 big thing: Cruise robotaxis need more work

Posted on Jul 25, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

In a surprise to no one, Cruise today acknowledged it will not meet a 2019 target to deploy driverless cars in an urban robotaxi service....

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Storming Area 51 seeking to find secreted truly autonomous vehicles is a big no-go

Posted on Jul 23, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

Unless you live in a cave or perhaps are hiding in an underground bunker that lacks internet access, you’ve likely heard about the Area 51...

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Tesla and Elon Musk might find their way to self-driving cars via neuralink and brainjacking

Posted on Jul 21, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

I was speaking at an AI autonomous vehicle industry event this week and was asked whether there is any kind of connection between Elon...

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“Move fast and break things” won’t make self-driving cars safe

Posted on Jul 20, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

There’s an old parable of a person leaving the pub late at night and searching in vain for his keys under a streetlamp. A bystander asks...

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City planners eye self-driving vehicles to correct mistakes of the 20th-century auto

Posted on Jul 20, 2019 in Cars, News, Perspective

As self-driving vehicles begin to transform the way people get around, urban planners around the country are beginning to think about how...

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In a world of autonomous vehicles, this is why we’ll need more public transport than ever

Posted on Jul 19, 2019 in Buses, Perspective

The media is fascinated by autonomous vehicles (AVs), in particular their safety and when or if they will arrive en masse. A bigger and...

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Here are the executives running the biggest and most important self-driving-car companies

Posted on Jul 18, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

The serious players in the self-driving-vehicle game are starting to emerge. Over the past few years, Alphabet’s Waymo, GM’s...

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Tesla floats fully self-driving cars as soon as this year. Many are worried about what that will unleash.

Posted on Jul 18, 2019 in Cars, News, Perspective

SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla is promising to launch “full self-driving” capabilities to hundreds of thousands of cars through an over-the-air...

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Autonomous vehicles slowly merge into real-life traffic

Posted on Jul 18, 2019 in Cars, Perspective

(TNS) — Asking a driverless minivan to join suburban traffic required pushing a button labeled “START RIDE.” What followed was a cool...

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