Self-driving car UX shifting gears from stony silence to avid chitchat
What usually happens today when you get into a ride-sharing car that you requested as a pick-up for your trip to a local store?...
Read MoreST enabling industry on its journey towards autonomous driving
There continues to be a strong acceleration in transitioning to serve new mobility trends, including increasing vehicle electrification,...
Read MoreWaymo and TuSimple autonomous trucking leaders on the difficulty of building a highway-safe AI
TuSimple and Waymo are in the lead in the emerging sector of autonomous trucking; TuSimple founder Xiaodi Hou and Waymo trucking head...
Read MoreUber still sees micromobility and AVs in its future, and could push Prop 22 beyond California
Uber made headlines earlier this year when it offloaded Jump, the shared bike and scooter unit that once appeared to be a critical piece...
Read MoreHalloween trick-or-treating in an era of self-driving cars
Halloween is almost here! Even if this year’s celebrations might be somewhat less extravagant and require added care and precautions,...
Read MoreWhen AV software meets human driver…
A key question about autonomous vehicle (AV) technology is whether an AV software driver can match the capabilities of human drivers — and...
Read MoreSlow and steady wins the race: A case for driverless shuttles
Many driverless shuttles and delivery programs operate at no more than 25 mph on structured routes or within tightly fenced areas, and...
Read MoreRedefining LiDAR – Will perception software become the eyes of AVs?
California-based LiDAR specialist, AEye has developed iDAR (Intelligent Detection And Ranging), a perception system that acts as the eyes...
Read MoreSemi-autonomous vehicle brings future to Japanese mountain village
AKITA, Japan (Kyodo) — Asa Ishikami has seen much change in her 85 years of life, and now she is witnessing the future of travel...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars could be operating daily in 1-2 years—just not in big cities
(Bloomberg) — Oliver Cameron co-founded the self-driving car start-up Voyage in 2017 on the theory that retirement communities are...
Read MoreWaymo and Cruise safety drivers face a bleak choice: Pandemic or pollution?
Leo* stepped out of his house in Oakland recently to start his day as a backup driver for Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by...
Read MoreAnn Arbor startup develops autonomous robot to safely deliver meals, groceries in pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis has affected Michigan companies big and small in all kinds of ways but for startups tied to robotics and mobility, the...
Read MoreTire blowouts could cause self-driving cars to go astray
Have you ever had a tire go bad on you? Sometimes, a tire can seemingly obliterate and become a tangled mess of rubber and threads....
Read MoreTesla “Full Self Driving” will include pothole avoidance, vector-space bird’s eye view … & what else?
This evening on Twitter, after receiving the 4,200th request for bird’s eye view to be included in Tesla touchscreen visualizations, Tesla...
Read MoreConnected and autonomous mobility to rewrite data storage rules
Data is becoming increasingly valuable to automotive players as connectivity makes its way into both vehicles and urban architecture....
Read MoreUber self-driving car death ruling sets a scary precedent
Recently we learned that someone will face charges, after all, in the death of Elaine Herzberg, the first person killed by a self-driving...
Read MoreOur self-driving business in Austin, one year later
We stood in Austin one year ago with optimism for the journey ahead — launching a self-driving service that can be a part of the city’s...
Read MoreSelf-driving cars are still going to take a long time, people
A few years ago, I visited a super promising company called Luminar, which makes LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, technology that...
Read More10 unexpected places taking on the driverless challenge
The driverless dream is quickly becoming closer to reality, and not just in Silicon Valley. Here we take a look at a few of the more...
Read MoreThey promised us driverless cars. What happened?: Don Pittis
The name of the Scottish indie band We Were Promised Jetpacks alludes to disappointment that the future isn’t all it was cracked up...
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