7 Universities that are pushing the boundaries of autonomous driving
Big companies and cutting-edge start-ups often dominate the driverless car headlines. But the rapid acceleration of the technology would...
Read MoreYour deep dive into those Waymo self-driving cars in San Francisco that went headstrong up a dead-end street like floundering fish going upstream
Readers have implored me to do a deep dive into the maelstrom of news reports this week about Waymo self-driving cars that seemed to have...
Read MoreMaking sense of Apple’s self-driving car that recently struck a curb in California and owned up to it
Have you ever been driving and perchance struck a curb? I’m sure that you’ve experienced that gut-wrenching sorrowful moment. So did an...
Read MoreAnalyzing General Motors’ (GM) Cruise: A front-runner in AV space
Autonomous vehicle (“AV”) technology is a breakthrough in the automotive industry. The AVs are no longer a figment of imagination in the...
Read MoreGuess who’s the biggest investor in self-driving tech? It rhymes with Bambung
Every year, more and more money is being poured into driverless car tech, with car makers and other huge corporations betting that this’ll...
Read MoreWorries that AI self-driving cars will charge sky-high monopolistic prices
I had both Park Place and Boardwalk in my gleeful hands. Yes, in the venerated game of Monopoly, you can be darned happy when you manage...
Read MoreThe dangerous promise of the self-driving car
Has the U.S. enjoyed a century-long “love affair” with the automobile, as Groucho Marx memorably put it in a 1961 television show? Or has...
Read MoreA government’s struggle: How hands-off to regulate handsfree vehicles
Per Charles Dickens’ 1859 classic A Tale of Two Cities, our best-of-time-worst-of-times society seems to fit the second, less-famous...
Read MoreChina’s robotaxis hit the road
China continues to lead in the development of robotaxis. This post will explore the status of robotaxis in China. A future column will...
Read MoreNew LIDARs from Waymo and others produce amazing results
A recent clip of Waymo’s perception stack shows both good perception, but also the quality of Waymo’s latest LIDAR. We also saw impressive...
Read MorePlaying the persuasion game: Convincing passengers that autonomous equals safe
Though autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, to many, feels like something from the future, it is far closer to being a part of everyday...
Read MoreBothering and even spying on your neighbors via an AI self-driving car
One of the most famous TV show songs of all time urges you to sit right back and hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip that takes place...
Read MoreAutonomous vehicles: Cross jurisdictional regulatory perspectives
The use of autonomous vehicles is expected to grow precipitously, and with it, novel legal questions will undoubtedly arise. As a result,...
Read MoreDriver in Virginia gets out and saves peachy toddler pushing stroller with stuffed animal toward active roadway, providing sweet lessons for AI self-driving cars
A driver did the right thing the other day and saved the life of a meandering toddler. Per recent news reports, a driver in Virginia...
Read MoreExperts say driverless trucks likely decades away, ‘like going to the moon’
Trucking technology seems mired in a race to market between electrification and self-driving, with every North American truck OEM heaping...
Read MoreCan Tesla’s Track Mode & Safety Score coexist?
Tesla’s rollout of the Full Self Driving (FSD) beta request button and accompanying Safety Score Beta has been met with apprehension by a...
Read MoreMost self-driving demonstrations are theater, here’s how to make them more real
Almost every company producing self-driving car technology has released a video showing their car taking a drive in some situation. The...
Read MoreFacebook snafu prompts realization about rescuing AI self-driving cars from single points of failure
The recent multi-hour-long outage of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger that impacted perhaps billions of users has reportedly...
Read MoreCathy McMorris Rodgers: Congress not ready to regulate autonomous vehicles
Congress “missed an opportunity” to include autonomous vehicle (AV) regulations in the infrastructure bill, Rep. Cathy...
Read MoreWaymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on how to get self-driving taxis to the mall
Waymo is working on self-driving taxis, which is a huge deal. Ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft have remade cities, allowed people to...
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