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    Autonomous Cars


    Survey: Examining perceptions of autonomous vehicles using hypothetical scenarios
    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...
    26 June 2017, by

    New laissez-faire robocar rules may arise
    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....
    19 June 2017, by

    Uber regrouping after Levandowski firing
    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...
    12 June 2017, by

    Transportation as a service (TaaS): A look ahead
    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...
    15 May 2017, by

    Robocar news: Waymo starts pilot in Phoenix, Apple car gets more real, and the flying car takes off
    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...
    26 April 2017, by

    Looking ahead to the future of computer-driven cars
    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 â...
    21 April 2017, by



    LIDAR (lasers) and cameras together: Which is more important?
    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...
    29 March 2017, by

    Choreographing automated cars could save time, money and lives
    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...
    15 March 2017, by

    Intel to acquire Mobileye for $15.3 billion
    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...
    14 March 2017, by

    Should California electrify Caltrain or invest in robocars?
    [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.]...
    20 February 2017, by

    Ford Motor to invest $1 billion in Pittsburgh startup Argo AI
    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...
    15 February 2017, by

    California publishes robocar intervention reports: Google/Waymo vastly outpaces competition
    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...
    08 February 2017, by

    CES 2017, part one: Robocar technology and concept cars
    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....
    17 January 2017, by

    Self-driving cars, networks, and the companies and people that are stimulating development
    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...
    06 December 2016, by

    Robocar news: Comma One goes open source, creating simulations for robocars in New Zealand earthquakes
    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...
    02 December 2016, by

    Report examines China’s expansion into unmanned industrial, service, and military robotics systems
    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’...
    03 November 2016, by

    46 research reports analyze the robotics industry and autonomous vehicles
    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 ...
    29 September 2016, by

    Critique of NHTSA’s newly released regulations
    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 ...
    22 September 2016, by

    Robocar recap: Tesla radar, MobilEye fight, and the Comma One $1,000 add-on-box
    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...
    20 September 2016, by

    Pittsburgh and Singapore are now pilot sites for self-driving car services
    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. ...
    19 September 2016, by

    Breaking down robotaxi economics
    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 ...
    14 September 2016, by

    Two LiDAR makers each get big funding
    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...
    26 August 2016, by

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

    50 different state regulations for robocars is not a bad idea
    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...
    18 August 2016, by

    Will robocars be heaven or hell for our cities?
    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...
    15 August 2016, by

    Robocar platooning, or just carpool?
    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 ...
    12 August 2016, by

    Singapore to begin testing on-demand robot taxis
    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...
    02 August 2016, by

    Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux: Some expected, some strange
    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 ...
    26 July 2016, by

    Carpool apps are on the rise, let’s make transfer points and roads to help
    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...
    15 July 2016, by

    Overview: Are the sceptics right? Limits and potentials of deep learning in robotics
    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...
    23 June 2016, by

     
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