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Uber’s legal battles and robocars

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 26 Dec 2014

Uber is spreading fast, and running into protests from the industries it threatens, and in many places, the law has responded and banned, fined or restricted the service. I’m curious [tweetquote]wha...

Google presents their actual autonomous car test prototype

Ioannis K. Erripis 22 Dec 2014

Google just unveiled their first ‘real-build’ self-driving prototype vehicle. This is a follow up to the concept presented in May and signifies the progress of this particular Google project....

Future driving: Business models for robocars

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 11 Dec 2014

When I talk about robocars, I often get quite opposite reactions: Americans, in particular, will never give up car ownership! You can pry the bent steering wheel from my cold, dead hands. I can�...

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Mobility Transformation Facility, with Edwin Olson

Audrow Nash 28 Nov 2014

NEW: Full transcript below. In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Edwin Olson, an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, about the University’s 32-acre testing environment for auton...

Your car may be programmed to kill you — and 9 more fun facts about self-driving vehicles | Yahoo Tech

CIS Blog 10 Nov 2014

The most famous driverless cars in the world belong to Google. Since 2009, its experiments have clocked more than 750,000 miles on California roads with neither a driver nor an accident. But Google’...

SMART begins live public robocar tests in Singapore today

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 23 Oct 2014

Robocar R&D is moving fast in Singapore, and this week, the National University of Singapore (NUS) announced they will be doing a live public demo of their autonomous golf carts over a course wi...

Tesla’s auto lane-changing, Audi’s self-driving race car and other recent announcements

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 22 Oct 2014

Tesla is certainly an important company to watch. As the first successful start-up car company in the USA, they are showing they know how to do things differently, taking advantage of the fact that th...

Michigan latest state to ban direct Tesla sales | The Verge

Hallie Siegel 22 Oct 2014

Michigan has become the latest state to ban Tesla from selling its cars straight to consumers, with Governor Rick Snyder signing a law yesterday that prohibits direct sales. Michigan joins a growing n...

Robocars: A natural fit for retirement communities

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 18 Oct 2014

As people get older, they start losing their ability to drive: they start having trouble seeing in the dark and they stop driving at night; they also make mistakes, causing other people to hit them, a...

Move over, humans, the robocars are coming | Washington Post

CIS Blog 14 Oct 2014

My prediction is that in fewer than 15 years, we will be debating whether human beings should be allowed to drive on highways. After all, we are prone to road rage; rush headlong into traffic jams; b...

Livestream: Cato Institute on “Policy implications of self-driving cars”

Robohub Editors 14 Oct 2014

October 14, 2014 12:00PM EST Featuring Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Marc Scribner, Research Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute; and Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow, ...

Self-driving car test sites

Frank Tobe 08 Oct 2014

Swarm communication and urban city driving are integral to the safe deployment of self-driving cars. Mercedes-Benz and a joint Michigan-based consortium are setting up secure test sites in California ...

Live webstream: Risks and opportunities for the auto re/insurance industry

Robohub Editors 24 Sep 2014

Today between 08:30-17:00 CET This live webstream by the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue brings together a comprehensive spectrum of perspectives and expertise on advanced driver assistance syste...

Impact of robocars perceived as net positive even if jobs are displaced

Open Roboethics Initiative 15 Sep 2014

Will robots take away our jobs? Will we be better off with robots even if they do? One Forbes article published last year by Chunka Mui focused the jobs issue on autonomous cars. In the article tit...

Reader poll: Will autonomous cars create more jobs than they displace?

Open Roboethics Initiative 03 Sep 2014

One of the most popular questions when it comes to discussing robotics is the jobs question. Will robots create more jobs, or replace them? Recently, we’ve seen a lot of discussions on the topic o...

Rain on Google’s self-driving car parade

Frank Tobe 02 Sep 2014

Auto World News reminds us that Google's self-driving car can't navigate heavy rain or most roads and that there are still many challenges to solve....

Readers support cars that communicate and self-organize

Open Roboethics Initiative 01 Sep 2014

The conventional cars that we drive today don’t really talk to one another. Sure, some of them connect to your cellphones and mp3 players. But they don’t form a communication network with neighbou...

Crash optimization

Jim Haas 27 Aug 2014

Busy times, but I finally managed to complete my comic dealing with all of the great polls about Automated Driving here on Robohub. If you enjoy reading Nate, check out his other wacky adventures at N...

Autonomous cars 101 | Brad Templeton via Big Think

Robohub Editors 25 Aug 2014

http://youtu.be/1BylX2XwwAM Brad Templeton explains how autonomous vehicles will be a major disruptive innovation arriving sooner than most are expecting. Templeton is Board Member and Former Chair...

The secrets Google wanted to keep about its self-driving cars | Quartz

Ioannis K. Erripis 25 Aug 2014

Google’s experimental self-driving cars have traveled more than 700,000 miles on California’s roads with nothing more serious than a fender bender, and that one while a human was...

Reader poll: How do you feel about “Swarms of Autonomous Cars”?

Open Roboethics Initiative 19 Aug 2014

A few of days ago, WIRED and Robohub covered a story about “Largest Swarm of Robots” and how self-organizing algorithms can be used by robots to form certain shapes. This inspired us to see wha...

If drinking and driving, ride the car that doesn’t need your input or let it go home w/o you

Open Roboethics Initiative 18 Aug 2014

For the past few months the Open Roboethics initiative and Robohub have explored the topic of autonomous cars in the form of biweekly polls. We were able to find out a lot of interesting facts about w...

The Neighbourhood Elevator and a new vision of urban density | Robocars

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 05 Aug 2014

I’ve been musing more on the future of the city under the robocar, and many visions suggest we’ll have more sprawl. Earlier I have written visions of Robocar Oriented Development and outlined all ...

Robocars love the draft | Automaton

Hallie Siegel 05 Aug 2014

If you are willing to leave much of the driving in the hands of the guy behind the steering wheel, and all you want is to manage tight spacing for efficient drafting, then the solution to the problem ...

Robocar news: UK Legalization, MobilEye IPO, Baidu, new LIDAR and more

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 05 Aug 2014

A whole raft of recent robocar news....

Reader poll: Should an autonomous car be able to drive w/o a human passenger?

Open Roboethics Initiative 05 Aug 2014

A couple of months ago, we asked our readers whether three different unlicensed groups of individuals should be able to ride in autonomous cars alone. The individuals were: a child under the legal dr...

Readers split on whether they will miss driving their non-autonomous car

Open Roboethics Initiative 04 Aug 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-MGQqaY3eo Driving has become an integral component of our daily lives, especially in developed countries. Cars are not just a means for us to get from point A to p...

See what it’s like to go off-road inside the Marines’ self-driving vehicle | The Verge

Hallie Siegel 28 Jul 2014

http://youtu.be/sFkj36JJ8mk The US military has been working on self-driving vehicles of its own for several years now, and earlier this month a video was published showing just what it's...

The two cultures of robocars

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 24 Jul 2014

I have many more comments pending on my observations from the recent AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicles Symposium, but for today I would like to put forward an observation I made about two broad schools of ...

When fully autonomous cars are the norm, will you miss driving?

Open Roboethics Initiative 22 Jul 2014

A few weeks ago, one of our readers, Javier Lopez, submitted a number of questions to the ORi team. He brought up many interesting points, and we won’t attempt to cover them all in one poll. But on...

Autonomous car poll: Participants choose random chance over informed decision

Open Roboethics Initiative 21 Jul 2014

Given a choice between crashing into a motorcyclist wearing a helmet vs. a motorcyclist who isn’t wearing one, which one should an autonomous car be programmed to crash into? What about the choice b...

Deploying automated vehicles

Bryant Walker Smith 16 Jul 2014

In 2012, the Nevada DMV issued the first license to test autonomous vehicles on public roads in the US. The red license plates are only for autonomous test vehicles and are meant to make the cars easi...

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