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Bosch and Nvidia partner to develop AI for self-driving cars
Frank Tobe
17 Mar 2017
Amongst all the activity in autonomously driven vehicle joint ventures, new R&D facilities, strategic acquisitions (such as Mobileye being acquired by Intel) and booming startup fundings, two bi...
NHTSA ODI report exonerates Tesla in fatal crash
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
20 Jan 2017
NHTSA released the report from their Office of Defects Investigation on the fatal Tesla crash in Florida last spring. It’s a report that is surprisingly favorable to Tesla. So much so that even I am...
Google car is now Waymo
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
14 Dec 2016
Google’s car project (known as “Chauffeur”) kickstarted the entire robocar revolution, and Google has put in more work, for longer, than anybody. The car was also the first project of what becam...
Oxbotica’s autonomous vehicle software learns its environment and how it changes over time
Kassie Perlongo
10 Oct 2016
Oxbotica, a UK technology company with a focus on mobile robotics and driverless vehicles, has created Selenium, an autonomous software system acting similar to a 'brain' for a vehicle. Selenium can...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Reader poll: How should an autonomous car optimize crashes?
Open Roboethics Initiative
08 Jul 2014
Photo by Roland Dobbins, Wikimedia
A couple of months ago Dr. Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, wrote an article on autonomous...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
