Autonomous vehicles as a “killer app” for AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is used in a wide variety of products and services, including maps embedded on our smart phones and “chat...
Read MoreWhether bicycle riders will still get conked by car doors being opened even in an era of AI self-driving cars
This happens in real life. A bike rider was cruising along on a nice sunny day. Riding a bicycle while in city traffic is always a dicey...
Read MoreRegulators know teleoperation is key for self-driving vehicles to succeed
The first article in this series highlighted one of the biggest and most revolutionary changes ever to come our way — autonomous vehicles...
Read MoreMassive record-breaking heat wave reveals how AI self-driving cars could provide some cooling relief
How hot is it? That’s the kind of question that you probably don’t want to be asked when you are broiling in the existing heatwave that...
Read MoreWhy autonomous vehicles need a large-systems approach to safety
The autonomous vehicle (AV) industry has yet to converge on a single method for measuring the maturity of AV technology with AV companies...
Read MoreIt’s still about trust: Ford updates safety assessment as it nears launch of self-driving business
Back in 2018, Ford issued a comprehensive report to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) that outlined the way we approach...
Read MoreOpinion: You will not be traveling in a self-driving car anytime soon. Here’s what the future will look like
This is how Anthony Foxx, former U.S. secretary of transportation, envisioned the future of autonomous vehicles in 2016: “By 2021, we will...
Read MoreThe state of the autonomous vehicle industry in 2021
Autonomous Vehicles (AV) hit the bottom of Gartner Hype Cycle’s trough of disillusionment in 2019-2020. Since the middle of last year, we...
Read MoreThe secret is out that confidential computing is a hot trend and seriously crucial to AI and for self-driving cars too
Let’s play a spying game. A friend of yours wants to write down a secret and pass along the note to you. There is dire concern that an...
Read MoreAutomotive driving demand for HPC
Among the new process nodes introduced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. at its 2021 Virtual Technology Symposium was N5A, which...
Read MoreHere’s how ransomware is going to fiendishly impede AI self-driving cars
Ransomware is being continually mentioned in the daily news and appears to be a seemingly unstoppable fiendish craze....
Read MoreInternal whistleblowers might just blow the lid off some quite dicey AI self-driving cars
There is the old saying that you ought to not look in the kitchen when you go to some restaurants or eateries for a bite to eat. When you...
Read MoreStartups and VCs refocus autonomous vehicle efforts
Investors have poured billions into startups promising to get self-driving cars on the road to shuttle passengers and parcels. Now, the...
Read MoreHyperdrive Daily: AV safety is whatever (insert self-driving company name) says it is
Last week, self-driving startup Aurora Innovation released a Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment – basically, a report on how it develops AV...
Read MoreWhat Waabi’s launch means for the self-driving car industry
It is not the best of times for self-driving car startups. The past year has seen large tech companies acquire startups that were running...
Read MoreWhy Mate Rimac is working on electric robotaxis
Mate Rimac, the founder and CEO of Croatian electric hypercar and components developer Rimac Automobili, started a separate company nearly...
Read MoreSupposing the FBI secretly ran a fleet of AI self-driving cars to track and ultimately nab unsuspecting criminals
Gotcha! You might have seen the recent headlines blaring that the FBI secretly duped hundreds of alleged criminals by providing in the...
Read MoreThe future of autonomous vehicles: Product or service?
The big question about the evolution of car transportation is whether in the future, we will continue to buy and own vehicles, or simply...
Read MoreThe promise and peril of self-driving cars in cities
For most people, self-driving cars are not real. They are theoretical devices hyped in the media and by investors hoping to cash in at...
Read MoreIs Cathie Wood’s robotaxi thesis realistic?
Will “robotaxis” — self-driving ridesharing vehicles — be the key to exponential profit growth for companies like...
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