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US Department of Transportation issues guidance for automated driving
Bryant Walker Smith
21 Sep 2016
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...
Robocar recap: Tesla radar, MobilEye fight, and the Comma One $1,000 add-on-box
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
20 Sep 2016
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...
Pittsburgh and Singapore are now pilot sites for self-driving car services
Frank Tobe
19 Sep 2016
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. ...
Breaking down robotaxi economics
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
14 Sep 2016
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 ...
Case IH displays new cab-less concept tractor
Frank Tobe
06 Sep 2016
Case IH (Case New Holland International Harvester) displayed their new cab-less tractor at a farming show in Iowa. The presentation was to show off what they hope will be the future: an autonomous...
Two LiDAR makers each get big funding
Frank Tobe
26 Aug 2016
In anticipation of the need for LiDAR devices in cars with assisted steering and other self-driving technologies, both Velodyne and Quanergy received funding. Quanergy raised $90 million and Velodyne...
Robocar recap: Uber buys Otto, folks leave Google, Ford goes big, Tesla drops MobilEye
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
23 Aug 2016
Brad Templeton, from Robocars.com, discusses the latest robocar related news....
50 different state regulations for robocars is not a bad idea
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
18 Aug 2016
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...
Will robocars be heaven or hell for our cities?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
15 Aug 2016
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...
Robocar platooning, or just carpool?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
12 Aug 2016
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 ...
Singapore to begin testing on-demand robot taxis
Frank Tobe
02 Aug 2016
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...
Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux: Some expected, some strange
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
26 Jul 2016
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 ...
Carpool apps are on the rise, let’s make transfer points and roads to help
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
15 Jul 2016
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...
Understanding the massive gulf between the Tesla Autopilot and a real robocar, in light of the crash
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
11 Jul 2016
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...
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Self-Driving Cars: From Research to Road, with Karl Iagnemma
Audrow Nash
09 Jul 2016
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...
Should Tesla disable your Autopilot if you’re not diligent? Plus, a survey of robocar validation
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
06 Jul 2016
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...
Overview: Are the sceptics right? Limits and potentials of deep learning in robotics
John McCormac
23 Jun 2016
John McCormac discusses his takeaways from the RSS 2016 Workshop ‘Are the Sceptics Right? Limits and Potentials of Deep Learning in Robotics' and highlights interesting themes and topics from the d...
Designing simple, cheap cars of the future
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
17 Jun 2016
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 ...
Letting policymakers handle the trolley problem
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
10 Jun 2016
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 ...
How much can customers test robocars?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
07 Jun 2016
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...
An alternative to specific regulations for robocars: A liability doubling
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
02 Jun 2016
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...
Robocar news around the globe: Tesla crash, Declaration of Amsterdam, and automaker services
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
01 Jun 2016
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 ...
Self-driving trucks are coming — what will that mean?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
18 May 2016
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...
The coming nightmare for the car industry
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
11 May 2016
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...
Google develops a Chrysler minivan
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
05 May 2016
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...
Stakeholders likely to be disrupted by the changeover to self-driving vehicles
Frank Tobe
26 Apr 2016
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...
What to expect from autonomous cars
SPARC
21 Apr 2016
Over 25,700 people died in car crashes in the European Union in 2014, and 200,000 came home with life-changing injuries....
Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies
MIT News
21 Apr 2016
MIT has offered courses on everything from pirate training to “street-fighting math,” but a new robotics class is truly one for the birds....
GM’s purchase of Cruise fuels interest in self-driving car kits
Frank Tobe
19 Apr 2016
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 ...
How would a robocar handle an oncoming tsunami?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
19 Apr 2016
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....
comma.ai’s neural network car and new technology in robocars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
15 Apr 2016
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...
Autonomous truck platoons travel across Europe
Frank Tobe
14 Apr 2016
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....
Robust and transparent governance is key to building trust in driverless cars
Alan Winfield
12 Apr 2016
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...
Can I trust my robot? And should my robot trust me?
Riccardo Bevilacqua
07 Apr 2016
If we are serious about long-term human presence in space, such as manned bases on the moon or Mars, we must figure out how to streamline human-robot interactions....
Startup bringing driverless taxi service to Singapore
MIT News
27 Mar 2016
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....
Calculating why we should make a lot more robocars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
24 Mar 2016
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 ...
