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Don’t laugh; the new Google prototype car has implications for your business
Paul Godsmark
30 Jun 2014
It may look amusing and easily dismissed as a novelty prototype many years from production, but take a good look at a technology that in a few short years is going to transform your life and have majo...
My (autonomous) car, my safety: Results from our reader poll
Open Roboethics Initiative
30 Jun 2014
You are travelling along a single lane mountain road in an autonomous car that is approaching a narrow tunnel. You are the only passenger of the car....
Autonomous vehicles: A powerful tool if you can get the problem right
Peter Norton
25 Jun 2014
“When the American people, through their Congress, voted for a twenty-six-billion-dollar highway program, the most charitable thing to assume is that they hadn’t the faintest notion of what they w...
Reader poll: How would you like to interface with your autonomous car?
Open Roboethics Initiative
24 Jun 2014
We interact with gadgets and devices everyday … some have blinking lights, some play sounds, and some can even decipher our voice commands. When it comes to interfacing with a device as exciting an...
If death by autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die? Reader poll results
Open Roboethics Initiative
23 Jun 2014
Image credit: Craig Berry
Life and death decisions make interesting thought experiments. When you throw an autonomous car into the mix, things get even more interesting....
Automated Driving: Upcoming Change in Perspective?
Jim Haas
16 Jun 2014
While Nate doesn't appear in today's comic, you can learn more about Nate's wacky life at his Website....
An ethical dilemma: When robot cars must kill, who should pick the victim?
Jason Millar
11 Jun 2014
Image credit: Craig Berry
We are moving closer to having driverless cars on roads everywhere, and naturally, people are starting to wonder what kinds of ethical challenges driverless cars will pose. ...
The car in your driveway may be more autonomous than you think
Ioannis K. Erripis
11 Jun 2014
[Jaguar XF, ESC test by EuroNCAP - photo: EuroNCAP ]
Did you know that the majority of the cars we buy and drive today are able to act by themselves and maneuver themselves out of an accident? They...
Reader poll: If a death by an autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die?
Open Roboethics Initiative
10 Jun 2014
Image source: Karora via Wikipedia.
There may be times when an accident or a death is unavoidable while an autonomous car is controlling the wheel.
What should an autonomous car do when such ...
Elon Musk wants to make a flying car | The Independent
Hallie Siegel
09 Jun 2014
"Maybe we'll make a flying car, just for fun," said Elon Musk. From any other businessman, such a statement would be a joke. But the billionaire, 42, who has poured the millions he made from the sal...
Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed? Results from our reader poll
Open Roboethics Initiative
09 Jun 2014
Our previous poll, which asked (among other questions) whether kids should be allowed to ride in autonomous vehicles by themselves, revealed that responsibility is a key issue for most people. Are we ...
How do self-driving cars work?
Shima Rayej
03 Jun 2014
Nissan’s autonomous car prototype - 2013, photo:Nissan Global
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, recently announced that the car manufacturer will produce self-driving cars within three years. Nissan has announ...
Automated Driving – Something Missing
Jim Haas
29 May 2014
Learn more about Nate's wacky life at his Website....
Pure autonomy: Google’s new purpose-built self driving car
Ioannis K. Erripis
28 May 2014
Google completed a major step in its long and extensive self-driving cars project by presenting its first purpose-built autonomous car, which is designed from scratch for its role and is not a modifie...
Reader Poll: Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed?
Open Roboethics Initiative
27 May 2014
We conducted two polls last month in collaboration with the Open Roboethics initiative to get a sense of what people think about autonomous cars. Our polls started some interesting discussions arou...
Kids with wheels: Should the unlicensed be allowed to ‘drive’ autonomous cars?
Open Roboethics Initiative
26 May 2014
Share your opinion and take our next reader poll: Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed?Reader poll results: Earlier this month, when we asked people about your general thoughts on autonomous c...
The autonomous driving r/evolution: Call to contribute to Robohub Focus
Hallie Siegel
21 May 2014
While a city full of autonomous taxis may seem part of a distant future, sophisticated driver-assistance systems such as ABS, cruise-control, lane-keeping and self-parking are already a reality in t...
Reader poll: Should the unlicensed be allowed to ‘drive’ an autonomous car?
Open Roboethics Initiative
13 May 2014
Image from Wikimedia Commons
Two weeks ago we published our first reader poll in collaboration with the Open Roboethics initiative in order to find out more about what people think about autono...
What do people think about autonomous cars? Results from our reader poll
Open Roboethics Initiative
12 May 2014
What do people think are the main advantages of owning an autonomous car? Do people think autonomous cars should be easily identifiable? How much money are people willing to pay for an autonomous car ...
Google’s self-driving car masters city streets | Evan Ackerman on Discovery News
Hallie Siegel
30 Apr 2014
The cars have surpassed 700,000 autonomous accident-free miles (around 1.13 million kilometers), and they're learning how to safely navigate through the complex urban jungle of city streets. Soon enou...
Reader poll: What do you think about autonomous cars?
Open Roboethics Initiative
29 Apr 2014
Today we drive our cars. In the future they’ll do the driving.
Autonomous cars are no longer a far-off futuristic dream, but something that we can expect to see on the road within the next dec...
Transportation 2025 and beyond: Discussion with Rodney Slater
CIS Blog
09 Apr 2014
In this discussion moderated by Stanford's Bryant Walker Smith, the Honorable Rodney Slater talks about the opportunities, challenges and best pathways for successful transportation innovation and pol...
The practical path to driverless cars | The Atlantic Cities
CIS Blog
01 Apr 2014
"Google has a lot of data from its fleet," says Bryant Walker Smith, resident fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, who's written about the legality of autonomous cars....
Driven to gridlock: Driverless cars | CBS Los Angeles
CIS Blog
01 Apr 2014
Listen to the full radio interview at CBS Los Angeles.
There’s a lot of talk about autonomous control vehicles, or cars that drive themselves. Charles Feldman talked with Stanford L...
SAE defines six levels of driving automation
Bryant Walker Smith
07 Feb 2014
Photo: Osvaldo Gago
SAE International's On-Road Automated Vehicle Standards Committee, on which I serve along with experts from industry and government, has released an information report defini...
Human error as a cause of vehicle crashes
Bryant Walker Smith
07 Feb 2014
Source: Wonderlane.
Some ninety percent of motor vehicle crashes are caused at least in part by human error. This intuitive claim is a fine place to start discussions about the safety potenti...
The driverless city | Project Syndicate
Hallie Siegel
27 Jan 2014
A recent paper by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s SMART Future Mobility team shows that the mobility demand of a city like Singapore – potentially host to the world’s first publicly-...
Who gets a ticket when there’s no one behind the wheel? | Marketplace
CIS Blog
28 Aug 2013
Bryant Walker Smith, fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, discusses the new legal issues presented by having cars with no drivers.
See more: Marketplace...
Six questions states need to ask about self-driving cars | Governing
CIS Blog
13 Aug 2013
A growing number of states are taking up legislation that addresses self-driving vehicles in an effort to make it easier for researchers to explore the technology.
But most of the legislation deals...
The ethics of saving lives with autonomous cars are far murkier than you think | Wired
CIS Blog
30 Jul 2013
If you don’t listen to Google’s robot car, it will yell at you. I’m not kidding: I learned that on my test-drive at a Stanford conference on vehicle automation a couple weeks ago. The ...
Tune your engine: Driverless car technology | Radio New Zealand
CIS Blog
29 Jul 2013
Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford Centers for Automotive Research and Internet and Society, looks at developments in driverless car technology.
Originally aired on: Radio New Ze...
States develop legislation for driverless cars | USA Today
CIS Blog
29 Jul 2013
In California, Nevada, Florida and the District of Columbia, the future of transportation is now: All four jurisdictions are setting ground rules for self-driving cars on the roads.
Read more...
Under pressure, Google may slow rollout of driverless car technology
CIS Blog
22 Jul 2013
Google is under pressure from people inside and outside the company to crimp some features until society gets more used to automated cars.
Read more: Steve Rosenbush, Wall Street...
Disruptions: How driverless cars could reshape cities | New York Times
CIS Blog
17 Jul 2013
By now, seeing one of Google’s experimental, driverless cars zipping down Silicon Valley’s Highway 101, or parking itself on a San Francisco street, is not all that unusual. Indeed, as automakers...
What driverless car entrepreneurs can learn from the aviation industry | Australian Broadcasting Company
CIS Blog
16 Jul 2013
The former vice-president of research and development for General Motors is a champion of the ‘driverless car’. He sees a time when traffic in our cities will swarm like insects, with cars communi...
Roadmap for driverless cars: Five highlights | The Wall Street Journal
CIS Blog
04 Jun 2013
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday came out with a road map for navigating the future of self-driving cars. Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford Law School who st...
