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Robocar news roundup: Google doesn’t hit Delphi but does go to Austin; Vislab sold for $30M
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
13 Jul 2015
The press were all a-twitter about a report from Reuters that there had been a near miss between Delphi’s test car and one of Google’s, though it was quickly denied that anything happened....
As Google cars roll out, Deere reminds us of its thousands of self-driving tractors
Frank Tobe
28 Jun 2015
Google is putting 25 new self-driving cars onto the streets of Mountain View, California, but agricultural equipment manufacturer John Deere reminds us that it already has tens of thousands of self-dr...
Powering the robocar: Ultracapacitors and other energy sources
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
11 Jun 2015
A reader recently asked about the synergies between robocars and ultracapacitors / supercapacitors. It turns out they are not what you would expect, and it teaches some of the surprising lessons of ro...
Robocar roundup: Google accidents, Baidu cars, startups and more
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
11 Jun 2015
Here’s a roundup of news stories in the field of robocars....
The social car: Simplifying autonomous action with Thing Theory
Sally Applin and Michael Fischer
10 Jun 2015
Automating vehicles simplifies operation for humans but also increases complexity. In order to negotiate a safe journey within a crowded transportation system, cars must communicate messages not only...
Google to release monthly driving reports
Adriana Hamacher
09 Jun 2015
Google has started publicly disclosing details of accidents involving its self-driving cars....
Automated vehicle crashes
Bryant Walker Smith
29 May 2015
Earlier this month, the Associated Press reported on several past crashes involving automated vehicles. (Per SAE Standard J3016, I use the term "automated vehicle" instead of "autonomous veh...
Why Tesla’s purported liability ‘fix’ is technically and legally questionable
Bryant Walker Smith
26 May 2015
An interesting article in last week’s Wall Street Journal spawned a series of unfortunate headlines (in a variety of publications) suggesting that Tesla had somehow “solved” the “problem” ...
Robocar roundup: Google deploys nextgen cars on city streets; Mercedes Freightleiner tests in NV
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
19 May 2015
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Google has done over 2.7 million km of testing with their existing fleet, they announced. Now, they will be putting their small “buggy” vehicle onto real streets in Mountain View. The c...
Will motion sickness really be a barrier to self-driving cars?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
14 Apr 2015
Earlier this week I was sent some advance research from the U of Michigan about car sickness rates for car passengers. I found the research of interest, but wish it had covered some questions I think ...
Delphi completes trans-continental drive, and Hyundai goes big
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
08 Apr 2015
Most recent robocar press has been about the Delphi drive from San Francisco to New York, which is now completed. Congratulations to the team. Few teams have tried to do such a long course that invo...
“Anyone who focuses on tech alone hasn’t grasped how autonomous driving will change society”
Frank Tobe
01 Apr 2015
The way that consumers interact with and operate cars will transform most functions in commuting, travel, communications, car ownership, and many other as-yet unknown ways....
Delphi’s cross-country trip, and a raft of other robocar news
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
31 Mar 2015
There has been a ton of robocar news in the last four weeks. Below is just a small subset of the now constant stream of news items and articles that appear about robocars....
Issues in regulating robocars, and the case for a light hand
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
04 Mar 2015
All over the world, people (and governments) are debating about regulations for robocars. First for testing, and then for operation. It mostly began when Google encouraged the state of Nevada to write...
Uber price in LA approaches robocar cheap
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
02 Mar 2015
I was recently considering the price of UberX in Los Angeles. It’s gotten disturbingly low, with a flag drop costing as little as $0.18 per minute / $0.90 per mile....
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Sensors for Autonomous Driving, with Christoph Stiller
Audrow Nash
20 Feb 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christoph Stiller from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Stiller speaks about the sensors required for various level of autonomous driving, as well as the...
Keep Calm and Carry Passengers: UK robocar projects level up
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
13 Feb 2015
The government-baked robocar projects in the UK are going full steam, with this press release from the UK government to accompany the unveiling of the prototype Lutz pod, which should ply the streets...
Programming safety into self-driving cars
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
06 Feb 2015
For decades, researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI, worked on specialized problems, developing theoretical concepts and workable algorithms for various aspects of the field. Computer vision, p...
Is Apple building a robocar? Maybe. Or maybe not.
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
05 Feb 2015
There is great buzz about some sensor-laden vehicles being driven around the USA, which have been discovered to be owned by Apple. The vehicles have cameras, LIDARs, and GPS antennas, and many are wo...
Will robocars use V2V at all?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
03 Feb 2015
I commonly see statements from connected car advocates that vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure communications are an important, even essential technology for robocar development. R...
Uber Chases Google in self-driving cars with Carnegie Mellon deal | WSJ
Hallie Siegel
03 Feb 2015
What might have been a budding partnership suddenly appeared to boil over into a pitched rivalry on Monday. Besides Uber’s disclosure that it will work on its own self-driving car technology, a Bloo...
No, Google and Uber aren’t going to war over self-driving cars | The Verge
Hallie Siegel
03 Feb 2015
This week, Uber has announced a self-driving research initiative in partnership with Carnegie Mellon, while Google is rumored to be investigating ride-sharing using its own self-driving cars. At a gla...
Google is developing its own Uber competitor | Bloomberg Business
Hallie Siegel
03 Feb 2015
Google Ventures, the search giant's venture capital arm, invested $258 million in Uber in August 2013. It was Google Ventures' largest investment deal ever, and the company put more money into Uber...
Uber to collaborate with CMU on robocars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
03 Feb 2015
Uber announced a strategic partnership with CMU yesterday, including a robocar lab in Pittsburg, and rumours reported in TechCrunch suggest Uber could be hiring up to 50 CMU folks to staff it....
UMich team works on perception and localization using cameras
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
27 Jan 2015
Some new results from the NGV Team at the University of Michigan describe different approaches for perception (detecting obstacles on the road) and localizations (figuring out precisely where you are)...
Might the first, supervised robocars be… well… boring?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
23 Jan 2015
Let me confess a secret fear. I suspect that the first “autopilot” functions on cars are going to be a bit boring....
Robocar parking
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
19 Jan 2015
In my earlier article on robocar challenges I gave very brief coverage to the issue of parking. Challenged on that, I thought it was time to expand. The world “parking” means many things, and the ...
Detroit Auto Show and more robocar news
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
19 Jan 2015
Robocar news continues after CES with announcements from the Detroit Auto Show (and a tiny amount from the TRB meeting.) Google doesn’t talk a lot about their car, so the address by Chris Urmson at...
Slow down that runaway ethical trolley
Bryant Walker Smith
13 Jan 2015
The runaway trolley has chased automated motor vehicles into the new year.
In early 2012, I raised a variation of the classic thought experiment to argue that there is not always a single absolu...
CES 2015: The ‘amazing’ autonomous Mercedes
Paul Godsmark
12 Jan 2015
The unveiling of the long sleek Mercedes Benz F 015 at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES 2015) in Las Vegas was quite something. It was amazing. Mercedes told us that they have been developing autonom...
Robocars at CES: BMW
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
09 Jan 2015
Day 3 at CES started with a visit to BMW’s demo. They were mostly test driving new cars like the i3 and M series cars, but for a demo, they made the i3 deliver itself along a planned corridor. It wa...
Robocars at CES: Supervised traffic jam assist
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
08 Jan 2015
After a short day looking at robocars at CES, a more full day was full of the usual equipment — cameras, TVs, audio and the like and visits to several car booths....
Robocars at CES: Mercedes concept
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
07 Jan 2015
There is reasonable volume of robocar related stuff to see here at CES. I just had a few hours today, and went to see the much touted Mercedes F105 “Luxury in Motion.” This is a concept, and no...
Robocars driving when the map is wrong
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
02 Jan 2015
Yesterday’s note on Here’s maps brought up the question of the wisdom of map-based driving. While I addressed this a bit earlier let me add a bit more detail.
A common first intuition is that b...
Cars in the UK, China, LA, CES and here : Robocar news update
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
01 Jan 2015
I see new articles on robocars in the press every day now, though most don’t say a lot new. Here, however, are some of the recent meaningful stories from the last month or two while I’ve been on t...
