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    Pittsburgh and Singapore are now pilot sites for self-driving car services
    Two self-driving car events of note: Uber just began operating a fleet of Volvo self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, and nuTonomy launched the first autonomous pilot taxi program last month in Singapore. ...
    19 September 2016, by

    Breaking down robotaxi economics
    The vision of many of us for robocars is a world of less private car ownership and more use of robotaxis — on-demand ride service in a robocar. That’s what companies like Uber clearly are pushing ...
    14 September 2016, by

    Robocar recap: Uber buys Otto, folks leave Google, Ford goes big, Tesla drops MobilEye
    Brad Templeton, from Robocars.com, discusses the latest robocar related news....
    23 August 2016, by

    50 different state regulations for robocars is not a bad idea
    At the recent AUVSI/TRB conference in San Francisco, there was talk of upcoming regulation, particularly from NHTSA. Secretary of Transportation Foxx and his NHTSA staff spoke with just vague hints ab...
    18 August 2016, by

    Will robocars be heaven or hell for our cities?
    Robin Chase wrote an article wondering if robocars will improve or ruin our cities and asked for my comment on it. It’s a long article, and I have lots of comment, since I have been considering thes...
    15 August 2016, by

    Robocar platooning, or just carpool?
    At the recent AUVSI/TRB symposium, a popular research topic was platooning for robocars and trucks. Platooning is perhaps the oldest practical proposal when it comes to car automation because you can ...
    12 August 2016, by



    Singapore to begin testing on-demand robot taxis
    Delphi Automotive, the global provider of vehicle electronics components, will begin testing 6 phone-dispatched autonomous taxis in Singapore that will go point-to-point based on customer requests w...
    02 August 2016, by

    Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux: Some expected, some strange
    Today, I want to look at some implications of Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux which caused some buzz this week. There was other news, of course, including the AUVSI/TRB meeting which I attended, and ...
    26 July 2016, by

    Carpool apps are on the rise, let’s make transfer points and roads to help
    The cell phone ride hail apps like Uber and Lyft are now reporting great success with actual ride-sharing, under the names UberPool, LyftLines and Lyft Carpool. In addition, a whole new raft of apps t...
    15 July 2016, by

    Understanding the massive gulf between the Tesla Autopilot and a real robocar, in light of the crash
    Brad Templeton describes Tesla’s Autopilot as a 'distant cousin of a real robocar' that primarily uses a MobilEye EyeQ3 camera combined with radars and ultrasonic sensors. Unlike robocar sensors, T...
    11 July 2016, by
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    Self-Driving Cars: From Research to Road, with Karl Iagnemma

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Karl Iagnemma, a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO of nuTonomy, about autonomous vehicles in urban env...
    09 July 2016, by

    Should Tesla disable your Autopilot if you’re not diligent? Plus, a survey of robocar validation
    In this article, Brad Templeton provides a rundown of different approaches for validation of self-driving and driver assist systems, a recommendation to Tesla and others to have countermeasures to det...
    06 July 2016, by

    Designing simple, cheap cars of the future
    What does that car of the future look like? There is no one answer; in this world, the car that is sent to pick you up can be tailored for your trip. The more people traveling, the bigger the car. If ...
    17 June 2016, by

    Letting policymakers handle the trolley problem
    When I give talks on robocars the most common question asked is the one known as the “trolley problem” question. That is: “what will the car do if it has to choose between killing one person or ...
    10 June 2016, by

    How much can customers test robocars?
    Reports from Tesla suggest they are gathering massive amounts of driving data from logs in their cars — 780 million miles of driving, and as much as 100 million miles in autopilot mode. This contras...
    07 June 2016, by

    An alternative to specific regulations for robocars: A liability doubling
    Can our emotional fear of machines, and the call for premature regulation, be mollified by a temporary increase in liability which takes the place of specific regulations to keep people safe? So fa...
    02 June 2016, by

    Robocar news around the globe: Tesla crash, Declaration of Amsterdam, and automaker services
    We have the first report of a real Tesla autopilot crash. To be fair to Tesla, their owner warnings specify very clearly that the autopilot could crash in just this situation. In the video, there is ...
    01 June 2016, by

    Self-driving trucks are coming — what will that mean?
    Today sees the un-stealthing of a new company called Otto which plans to build self-driving systems for long haul trucks. The company has been formed by a skilled team, including former members of Goo...
    18 May 2016, by

    The coming nightmare for the car industry
    I have often written on the challenge facing existing automakers in the world of robocars. They need to learn to completely switch their way of thinking in a world of mobility on demand, and not all o...
    11 May 2016, by

    Google develops a Chrysler minivan
    If you had asked me recently what big car company was the furthest behind when it came to robocars, one likely answer would be Fiat-Chrysler. In fact, famously, Chrysler ran ads several years ago duri...
    05 May 2016, by

    Stakeholders likely to be disrupted by the changeover to self-driving vehicles
    Volumes have been written about the possible beneficial (and negative) effects of self-driving cars and systems. But few have studied what industries will be disrupted by the transformations as self-d...
    26 April 2016, by

    What to expect from autonomous cars
    Over 25,700 people died in car crashes in the European Union in 2014, and 200,000 came home with life-changing injuries....
    21 April 2016, by

    Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies
    MIT has offered courses on everything from pirate training to “street-fighting math,” but a new robotics class is truly one for the birds....
    21 April 2016, by

    GM’s purchase of Cruise fuels interest in self-driving car kits
    Most car companies are remaking themselves into tech startups as they move toward offering fully autonomous self-driving vehicles. Yet thousands of tractors already use self-driving kits as ...
    19 April 2016, by

    How would a robocar handle an oncoming tsunami?
    Recently, a reddit user posted a short video of a lucky driver in Japan who was able to turn his car around just in time to escape the torrent of the tsunami....
    19 April 2016, by

    comma.ai’s neural network car and new technology in robocars
    Perhaps the world’s most exciting new technology today are deep neural networks, in particular convolutional neural networks, such as “Deep Learning.” These networks are conquering some of the...
    15 April 2016, by

    Autonomous truck platoons travel across Europe
    A dozen trucks arrived in Rotterdam after traveling across Europe in the European Truck Platooning Challenge. Six different truck makers participated: Scania, Daimler, Volvo, IVECO, MAN and DAF....
    14 April 2016, by

    Robust and transparent governance is key to building trust in driverless cars
    Sooner or later there will be fatal accident caused by a driverless car. It's not a question of if, but when. What happens immediately following that accident could have a profound effect on the nasce...
    12 April 2016, by

    Startup bringing driverless taxi service to Singapore
    An exciting “driverless race” is underway among tech giants the United States: In recent months, Google, Uber, and Tesla have made headlines for developing self-driving taxis for big cities....
    27 March 2016, by

    Calculating why we should make a lot more robocars
    I frequently read that people claim one effect of robocars will be car share (when they work as taxis) and fewer cars being made (because most cars stay idle 95% of the time) — which is good news ...
    24 March 2016, by

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