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    Dr Nathan Griffiths: Driverless cars? How the road to the future will be driven by machine learning
    Over the past few weeks, we’ve blogged about how machine learning is transforming research, nuclear decommissioning, and astronomy. Building on our “Ask the Experts” panel discussion on driverle...
    01 May 2017, by and

    Robocar news: Waymo starts pilot in Phoenix, Apple car gets more real, and the flying car takes off
    Waymo (Google) has announced a pilot project in Phoenix offering a full ride service in their new minivans. Members of the public can sign up — the link is sure to be overwhelmed with applicants, bu...
    26 April 2017, by

    Looking ahead to the future of computer-driven cars
    The field of transportation is undergoing a seismic shift with the introduction of autonomous driving — or computer-driven cars. Computer vision scientist and Mobileye co-founder Amnon Shashua PhD ...
    21 April 2017, by

    Luminar unstealths their 1.5 micron LIDAR
    Luminar, a bay area startup, has revealed details on their new LIDAR. Unlike all other commercial offerings, this is a LIDAR using 1.5 micron infrared light. They hope to sell it for $1,000....
    15 April 2017, by

    No, Detroit is not winning the robocar race
    A new report from Navigant Research includes the chart shown below, ranking various teams on the race to robocar deployment. It’s causing lots of press headlines about how Ford is the top company an...
    05 April 2017, by

    LIDAR (lasers) and cameras together: Which is more important?
    Recently we’ve seen a series of startups arise hoping to make robocars with just computer vision, along with radar. That includes recently unstealthed AutoX, the off-again, on again efforts of comma...
    29 March 2017, by



    Choreographing automated cars could save time, money and lives
    If you take humans out of the driving seat, could traffic jams, accidents and high fuel bills become a thing of the past? As cars become more automated and connected, attention is turning to how to be...
    15 March 2017, by

    Split-second decisions: Navigating the fine line between man and machine
    Today’s self-driving car isn’t exactly autonomous – the driver has to be able to take over in a pinch, and therein lies the roadblock researchers are trying to overcome. Automated cars are hurtl...
    13 March 2017, by

    By 2030, will traffic jams be a thing of the past?
    Imagine a future where self-driving cars, trains and buses are all seamlessly connected through an app, where traffic jams are a thing of the past and redundant car parks have been turned into green s...
    03 March 2017, by

    Should California electrify Caltrain or invest in robocars?
    [Editor's note: According to a recent article on SFGate, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has put the brakes on $647 million for Caltrain to go electric. The delay may kill the project entirely.]...
    20 February 2017, by

    Ford Motor to invest $1 billion in Pittsburgh startup Argo AI
    Argo AI, a Pittsburgh startup, has sold a majority share of their company to Ford Motor Co. which has agreed to invest $1 billion over a five-year schedule but will immediately become the majority sh...
    15 February 2017, by

    5 global problems that AI could help us solve
    There’s a great deal of concern over artificial intelligence; what it means for our jobs, whether robots will one day replace us in the workplace, whether it will one day lead to robot wars. But cur...
    10 February 2017, by

    Uber talks of deal with Daimler which shows Uber’s great advantage
    I generally pay very little attention when companies issue a press release about an “alliance.” It’s usually not a lot more than a press release, unless there are details on what will actually b...
    10 February 2017, by

    California publishes robocar intervention reports: Google/Waymo vastly outpaces competition
    California published its summary of all the reports submitted by vendors testing robocars in the state. You can read the individual reports. They are interesting, but several other outlines have creat...
    08 February 2017, by

    Combining automation and mobility to create a smarter world
    By: Catherine Marguerite | Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Daniela Rus loves Singapore. As the MIT professor sits down in her Frank Gehry-designed office in Cambridge, Massachus...
    20 January 2017, by

    NHTSA ODI report exonerates Tesla in fatal crash
    NHTSA released the report from their Office of Defects Investigation on the fatal Tesla crash in Florida last spring. It’s a report that is surprisingly favorable to Tesla. So much so that even I am...
    20 January 2017, by

    CES 2017, part one: Robocar technology and concept cars
    CES is the big event for major car makers to show off robocar technology. Most of the north hall, and a giant parking lot next to it, were devoted to car technology and self-driving demos....
    17 January 2017, by

    No, a Tesla didn’t predict an accident and brake for it
    You may have seen a lot of press around a dashcam video of a car accident in the Netherlands. It shows a Tesla in AutoPilot hitting the brakes around 1.4 seconds before a red car crashes hard into a b...
    11 January 2017, by

    CES 2017 pre-news: Ford Fusion, Nvidia, MobilEye, HERE, BMW, Intel and other partnerships
    Thursday night, and I am heading off to CES, and it’s become the main show it seems for announcing robocar news. There’s already a bunch....
    05 January 2017, by

    What are the right disability rules for robotaxis?
    Robocars are broadly going to be a huge boon for many people with disabilities, especially disabilities that make it difficult to drive or those that make it hard to get in and out of vehicles. Exist...
    26 December 2016, by

    Google car is now Waymo
    Google’s car project (known as “Chauffeur”) kickstarted the entire robocar revolution, and Google has put in more work, for longer, than anybody. The car was also the first project of what becam...
    14 December 2016, by

    What if the city ran Waze and you had to obey it? Could this cure congestion?
    I believe we have the potential to eliminate a major fraction of traffic congestion in the near future, using technology that exists today which will be cheap in the future. The method has been outlin...
    09 December 2016, by

    Robocar news: Comma One goes open source, creating simulations for robocars in New Zealand earthquakes
    There have been few postings this month, as I took the time to enjoy a holiday in New Zealand around speaking at the SingularityU New Zealand summit in Christchurch. The night before the summit, we en...
    02 December 2016, by

    The delicate balance between brilliance, safety and arrogance
    Silicon Valley and other technology centers have their share of brilliant minds. Some of them have similarly outstanding egos. A few of those have very short fuses. Such is the story of George Hotz....
    01 November 2016, by

    Comma.ai cancels comma-one add-on box after threats from NHTSA
    Comma.ai, the brash startup attempting to make a self-driving system entirely from a neural network has announced it will cancel the “comma one” add-on box it has planned to sell to owners of cert...
    31 October 2016, by

    Oxbotica’s autonomous vehicle software learns its environment and how it changes over time
    Oxbotica, a UK technology company with a focus on mobile robotics and driverless vehicles, has created Selenium, an autonomous software system acting similar to a 'brain' for a vehicle. Selenium can...
    10 October 2016, by

    Robocar parking is incredibly cheap
    Some people have wondered about my forecast in the spreadsheet on robotaxi economics about the very low parking costs I have predicted. I wrote about most of the reasons for this in my 2007 essay on R...
    27 September 2016, by

    Michigan’s automated driving bills
    Michigan's Senate are reviewing several bills related to automated driving. SB995, 996, 997, and 998 are now out of committee, and SB 927 and 928 are not far behind. These bills seem to be a mixed bag...
    26 September 2016, by

    US Department of Transportation issues guidance for automated driving
    With the recent announcement, the US Department of Transportation is enthusiastically embracing automated driving. It's saying that self-driving vehicles are coming in some form (or many forms) and th...
    21 September 2016, by

    Robocar recap: Tesla radar, MobilEye fight, and the Comma One $1,000 add-on-box
    Tesla’s spat with MobilEye reached a new pitch this week with Tesla announcing a new release of their autopilot and plans. As reported earlier, MobilEye announced during the summer that they would n...
    20 September 2016, by

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