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Google’s driverless future: Will self-piloting vehicles rob us of our privacy and autonomy? | Reason.com
Hallie Siegel
14 May 2013
“Our cars have sensors with which they magically can see everything around them,” Google engineer Sebastian Thrun exclaimed in a 2011 TED talk. And yet no one ran out of the room screaming. That...
Correcting misconceptions about autonomous vehicles | Openmarket.org
CIS Blog
10 May 2013
In the June issue of Reason, one of my favorite publications, Greg Beato has an article discussing the public policy implications of autonomous vehicles, such as Google’s Self-Driving Car. While ...
Smart vehicles are here: Can government keep pace? | NY Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference
CIS Blog
29 Apr 2013
The pressures are building for safer and smarter vehicles on our roads, raising questions about the national, state and local policies that will emerge. Several states are already early adopters of le...
Why driverless cars are ‘probably’ legal | The Atlantic Cities
CIS Blog
01 Apr 2013
The biggest roadblock facing a driverless world isn't necessarily technology, but legality. The question of who would be liable in the event of an accident — the human "driver," the car's owner, the...
Who’s liable when a driverless car crashes? | NPR
CIS Blog
12 Mar 2013
It's absolutely the case that after the first accident involving an automated vehicle, there will be an automated ambulance chaser following.
- Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Informati...
Nissan opens Silicon Valley center for self-driving car research | Bloomberg
Andra Keay
22 Feb 2013
Nissan Motor Co. opened a research center in California’s Silicon Valley that the Japanese carmaker plans to make its hub for research on self-driving vehicles and Internet-connected auto technology...
CMURobotics RI Seminar: Mel Torrie of Autonomous Solutions
John Payne
02 Feb 2013
As guest speaker for a CMURobotics RI Seminar, titled Lessons Learned Bootstrapping a Robotic Vehicle Company, Mel Torrie of Autonomous Solutions (Petersboro, Utah), describes how he got into robotics...
Autonomous Solutions, with Mel Torrie
Podcast team
28 Dec 2012
Link to audio file (26:42)In today’s episode we speak with Mel Torrie about work done at Autonomous Solutions, Inc. to make a large range of vehicles autonomous....
Robotics year in review: Top 10 stories of 2012
David Pietrocola
26 Dec 2012
The past year was a watershed moment for robotics. From defense to exploration, startups to legislation, we saw products, laws, and investments that have shifted robotics out of the lab and into our l...
Stanford hosts panel on making autonomous cars legal
Sabine Hauert
18 Nov 2012
The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford released a video of their panel discussion on "How an (Autonomous Driving) Bill Becomes Law" that took place earlier this month. The discussion builds o...
Nissan NSC-2015 drives and parks automatically in a shopping mall car park
DigInfo TV
05 Oct 2012
This autonomous driving system, developed by Nissan, can automatically drive and park your car in a shopping center parking lot.
The EV used in this demo, the NSC-2015, contains technology for reco...
SARTRE project concludes, reveals blissful future of car travel | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
26 Sep 2012
Volvo has an operational system that lets cars you can buy today drive themselves on highways...
Pertinent to the US, with the California autonomous vehicle legislation passing yesterday.
See on spe...
Google car zooms toward legal status | baycitizen.org
Sabine Hauert
25 Sep 2012
After lobbying by Google, California passes legislation to allow autonomous cars on highways.
See on www.baycitizen.org...
Study: Intelligent cars could boost highway capacity by 273% | IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
10 Sep 2012
See on m.spectrum.ieee.org...
Stanford’s self-driving car tears it up on racetrack – tops 120 MPH | Singularity Hub
Andra Keay
19 Aug 2012
The current run through Thunderhill is another example of how Stanford and Volkswagen engineers are set on pushing robotic car performance to its limits, quite different from Google’s singular goal ...
The logic behind bailing out the auto industry
Frank Tobe
27 Feb 2012
Pres. Obama, speaking at Carnegie Mellon University, June 24, 2011
"Today, I'm calling for all of us to come together- private sector, industry, universities, and the government - to spark a re...
Google gets patent for driverless car
Frank Tobe
18 Dec 2011
... Google was granted a US Patent “for transitioning a mixed-mode autonomous vehicle from a human driven mode to an autonomously driven mode.”
... Now comes the endless red tape over safety, neg...
Making a car for blind drivers, by Dennis Hong
Ioannis K. Erripis
06 Jun 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2OQxHNVLNY
In this recently released TED talk, Dennis Hong from VirginiaTech presents all the recent developments of his RoMeLa Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory...
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Robots Podcast: Autonomous vehicles, with Alberto Broggi and Raul Rojas
Podcast team
05 Nov 2010
Link to audio file (51:04)
In today’s episode we take a deeper look at what’s behind the hype over autonomous vehicles, and talk to two experts in the field, Alberto Broggi, leader of the Vislab ...
Google’ self-driving cars have racked up 140,000 driverless miles on California roads
Frank Tobe
31 Oct 2010
... The only accident was when one Google car was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light.
... The cars used LIDAR, a video camera, four standard automotive radar sensors and a position estimatin...
