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    Autonomous Cars

    Survey: Examining perceptions of autonomous vehicles using hypothetical scenarios
      26 Jun 2017
    I'm examining the perception of autonomous cars using hypothetical scenarios. Each of the hypothetical scenarios is accompanied with an image to help illustrate the scene -- using grey tones and nonde...

    New laissez-faire robocar rules may arise
      19 Jun 2017
    While very few details have come out, Reuters reports that new proposed congressional bills on self-driving cars will reverse many of the provisions I critiqued in the NHTSA regulations last year....

    Uber regrouping after Levandowski firing
      12 Jun 2017
    Uber, the global ride-sharing transportation company, has named two replacements to recover from the recent firing of Anthony Levandowski who headed their Advanced Technologies Group, their OTTO truck...

    Transportation as a service (TaaS): A look ahead
      15 May 2017
    SoftBank Group just invested $5 billion in China's Didi Chuxing, China's biggest ride-sharing service. Last year Uber sold their China business to Didi resolving (by giving up) all the legal and antit...

    Robocar news: Waymo starts pilot in Phoenix, Apple car gets more real, and the flying car takes off
      26 Apr 2017
    Waymo (Google) has announced a pilot project in Phoenix offering a full ride service in their new minivans. Members of the public can sign up — the link is sure to be overwhelmed with applicants, bu...

    Looking ahead to the future of computer-driven cars
      21 Apr 2017
    The field of transportation is undergoing a seismic shift with the introduction of autonomous driving — or computer-driven cars. Computer vision scientist and Mobileye co-founder Amnon Shashua PhD ...

    LIDAR (lasers) and cameras together: Which is more important?
      29 Mar 2017
    Recently we’ve seen a series of startups arise hoping to make robocars with just computer vision, along with radar. That includes recently unstealthed AutoX, the off-again, on again efforts of comma...

    Choreographing automated cars could save time, money and lives
      15 Mar 2017
    If you take humans out of the driving seat, could traffic jams, accidents and high fuel bills become a thing of the past? As cars become more automated and connected, attention is turning to how to be...

    Intel to acquire Mobileye for $15.3 billion
      14 Mar 2017
    Intel announced plans to acquire Israel-based Mobileye, a developer of vision technology used in autonomous driving applications, for $15.3 billion. Mobileye share prices jumped from $47 to $61 (the t...

    Should California electrify Caltrain or invest in robocars?
      20 Feb 2017
    [Editor's note: According to a recent article on SFGate, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has put the brakes on $647 million for Caltrain to go electric. The delay may kill the project entirely.]...

    Ford Motor to invest $1 billion in Pittsburgh startup Argo AI
      15 Feb 2017
    Argo AI, a Pittsburgh startup, has sold a majority share of their company to Ford Motor Co. which has agreed to invest $1 billion over a five-year schedule but will immediately become the majority sh...

    California publishes robocar intervention reports: Google/Waymo vastly outpaces competition
      08 Feb 2017
    California published its summary of all the reports submitted by vendors testing robocars in the state. You can read the individual reports. They are interesting, but several other outlines have creat...

    CES 2017, part one: Robocar technology and concept cars
      17 Jan 2017
    CES is the big event for major car makers to show off robocar technology. Most of the north hall, and a giant parking lot next to it, were devoted to car technology and self-driving demos....

    Self-driving cars, networks, and the companies and people that are stimulating development
      06 Dec 2016
    Intel is establishing an autonomous driving division; hacker George Hotz is open-sourcing his self-driving software in a bid to become a network company; LiDAR and distancing devices are changing. Wh...

    Robocar news: Comma One goes open source, creating simulations for robocars in New Zealand earthquakes
      02 Dec 2016
    There have been few postings this month, as I took the time to enjoy a holiday in New Zealand around speaking at the SingularityU New Zealand summit in Christchurch. The night before the summit, we en...

    Report examines China’s expansion into unmanned industrial, service, and military robotics systems
      03 Nov 2016
    In October, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a report, China’s Industrial and Military Robotics Development, prepared by the Defense Group, Inc. at the Commission’...

    46 research reports analyze the robotics industry and autonomous vehicles
      29 Sep 2016
    As autonomous cars begin to hit world markets in pilot tests and other ways, and before the International Federation of Robotics clarifies whether those vehicles are robots or not, two research firms ...

    Critique of NHTSA’s newly released regulations
      22 Sep 2016
    The long awaited list of recommendations and potential regulations for robocars has just been released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the federal agency that regulates ...

    Robocar recap: Tesla radar, MobilEye fight, and the Comma One $1,000 add-on-box
      20 Sep 2016
    Tesla’s spat with MobilEye reached a new pitch this week with Tesla announcing a new release of their autopilot and plans. As reported earlier, MobilEye announced during the summer that they would n...

    Pittsburgh and Singapore are now pilot sites for self-driving car services
      19 Sep 2016
    Two self-driving car events of note: Uber just began operating a fleet of Volvo self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, and nuTonomy launched the first autonomous pilot taxi program last month in Singapore. ...

    Breaking down robotaxi economics
      14 Sep 2016
    The vision of many of us for robocars is a world of less private car ownership and more use of robotaxis — on-demand ride service in a robocar. That’s what companies like Uber clearly are pushing ...

    Two LiDAR makers each get big funding
      26 Aug 2016
    In anticipation of the need for LiDAR devices in cars with assisted steering and other self-driving technologies, both Velodyne and Quanergy received funding. Quanergy raised $90 million and Velodyne...

    Robocar recap: Uber buys Otto, folks leave Google, Ford goes big, Tesla drops MobilEye
      23 Aug 2016
    Brad Templeton, from Robocars.com, discusses the latest robocar related news....

    50 different state regulations for robocars is not a bad idea
      18 Aug 2016
    At the recent AUVSI/TRB conference in San Francisco, there was talk of upcoming regulation, particularly from NHTSA. Secretary of Transportation Foxx and his NHTSA staff spoke with just vague hints ab...

    Will robocars be heaven or hell for our cities?
      15 Aug 2016
    Robin Chase wrote an article wondering if robocars will improve or ruin our cities and asked for my comment on it. It’s a long article, and I have lots of comment, since I have been considering thes...

    Robocar platooning, or just carpool?
      12 Aug 2016
    At the recent AUVSI/TRB symposium, a popular research topic was platooning for robocars and trucks. Platooning is perhaps the oldest practical proposal when it comes to car automation because you can ...

    Singapore to begin testing on-demand robot taxis
      02 Aug 2016
    Delphi Automotive, the global provider of vehicle electronics components, will begin testing 6 phone-dispatched autonomous taxis in Singapore that will go point-to-point based on customer requests w...

    Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux: Some expected, some strange
      26 Jul 2016
    Today, I want to look at some implications of Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux which caused some buzz this week. There was other news, of course, including the AUVSI/TRB meeting which I attended, and ...

    Carpool apps are on the rise, let’s make transfer points and roads to help
      15 Jul 2016
    The cell phone ride hail apps like Uber and Lyft are now reporting great success with actual ride-sharing, under the names UberPool, LyftLines and Lyft Carpool. In addition, a whole new raft of apps t...

    Overview: Are the sceptics right? Limits and potentials of deep learning in robotics
      23 Jun 2016
    John McCormac discusses his takeaways from the RSS 2016 Workshop ‘Are the Sceptics Right? Limits and Potentials of Deep Learning in Robotics' and highlights interesting themes and topics from the d...

    Letting policymakers handle the trolley problem
      10 Jun 2016
    When I give talks on robocars the most common question asked is the one known as the “trolley problem” question. That is: “what will the car do if it has to choose between killing one person or ...

    Robust and transparent governance is key to building trust in driverless cars
      12 Apr 2016
    Sooner or later there will be fatal accident caused by a driverless car. It's not a question of if, but when. What happens immediately following that accident could have a profound effect on the nasce...

    Replacing public transit at night for Uber and Lyft
      12 Mar 2016
    I have a big article forthcoming on the future of public transit. I believe that with the robocar (and van) it moves from being scheduled, route-based mass transit to on-demand, ad-hoc route medium an...

    Why Google’s crash is a good thing
      04 Mar 2016
    Reports released reveal that one of Google’s Gen-2 vehicles (the Lexus) has a fender-bender (with a bus) with some responsibility assigned to the system. This is the first crash of this type — all...

    The inevitability of the global march toward self-driving vehicles
      22 Jan 2016
    Perhaps the biggest upcoming robotics-driven economic and social change will be the arrival of fully autonomous (self-driving) vehicles. Imagine a world full of self driving cars, planes and boats ...

    Volvo says it will accept “full liability” when its cars are operating autonomously
      08 Oct 2015
    In a statement released yesterday, Volvo said it would accept full liability whenever one of its cars is in autonomous mode....

     
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