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    Autonomous Cars


    “Anyone who focuses on tech alone hasn’t grasped how autonomous driving will change society”
    The way that consumers interact with and operate cars will transform most functions in commuting, travel, communications, car ownership, and many other as-yet unknown ways....
    01 April 2015, by

    Delphi’s cross-country trip, and a raft of other robocar news
    There has been a ton of robocar news in the last four weeks. Below is just a small subset of the now constant stream of news items and articles that appear about robocars....
    31 March 2015, by

    Issues in regulating robocars, and the case for a light hand
    All over the world, people (and governments) are debating about regulations for robocars. First for testing, and then for operation. It mostly began when Google encouraged the state of Nevada to write...
    04 March 2015, by

    Uber price in LA approaches robocar cheap
    I was recently considering the price of UberX in Los Angeles. It’s gotten disturbingly low, with a flag drop costing as little as $0.18 per minute / $0.90 per mile....
    02 March 2015, by

    Keep Calm and Carry Passengers: UK robocar projects level up
    The government-baked robocar projects in the UK are going full steam, with this press release from the UK government to accompany the unveiling of the prototype Lutz pod, which should ply the streets...
    13 February 2015, by

    Programming safety into self-driving cars
    For decades, researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI, worked on specialized problems, developing theoretical concepts and workable algorithms for various aspects of the field. Computer vision, p...
    06 February 2015, by



    Will robocars use V2V at all?
    I commonly see statements from connected car advocates that vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure communications are an important, even essential technology for robocar development. R...
    03 February 2015, by

    Uber to collaborate with CMU on robocars
    Uber announced a strategic partnership with CMU yesterday, including a robocar lab in Pittsburg, and rumours reported in TechCrunch suggest Uber could be hiring up to 50 CMU folks to staff it....
    03 February 2015, by

    UMich team works on perception and localization using cameras
    Some new results from the NGV Team at the University of Michigan describe different approaches for perception (detecting obstacles on the road) and localizations (figuring out precisely where you are)...
    27 January 2015, by

    Might the first, supervised robocars be… well… boring?
    Let me confess a secret fear. I suspect that the first “autopilot” functions on cars are going to be a bit boring....
    23 January 2015, by

    Robocar parking
    In my earlier article on robocar challenges I gave very brief coverage to the issue of parking. Challenged on that, I thought it was time to expand. The world “parking” means many things, and the ...
    19 January 2015, by

    Detroit Auto Show and more robocar news
    Robocar news continues after CES with announcements from the Detroit Auto Show (and a tiny amount from the TRB meeting.) Google doesn’t talk a lot about their car, so the address by Chris Urmson at...
    19 January 2015, by

    Slow down that runaway ethical trolley
    The runaway trolley has chased automated motor vehicles into the new year. In early 2012, I raised a variation of the classic thought experiment to argue that there is not always a single absolu...
    13 January 2015, by

    CES 2015: The ‘amazing’ autonomous Mercedes
    The unveiling of the long sleek Mercedes Benz F 015 at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES 2015) in Las Vegas was quite something. It was amazing. Mercedes told us that they have been developing autonom...
    12 January 2015, by

    Robocars at CES: BMW
    Day 3 at CES started with a visit to BMW’s demo. They were mostly test driving new cars like the i3 and M series cars, but for a demo, they made the i3 deliver itself along a planned corridor. It wa...
    09 January 2015, by

    Robocars at CES: Supervised traffic jam assist
    After a short day looking at robocars at CES, a more full day was full of the usual equipment — cameras, TVs, audio and the like and visits to several car booths....
    08 January 2015, by

    Robocars at CES: Mercedes concept
    There is reasonable volume of robocar related stuff to see here at CES. I just had a few hours today, and went to see the much touted Mercedes F105 “Luxury in Motion.” This is a concept, and no...
    07 January 2015, by

    Robocars driving when the map is wrong
    Yesterday’s note on Here’s maps brought up the question of the wisdom of map-based driving. While I addressed this a bit earlier let me add a bit more detail. A common first intuition is that b...
    02 January 2015, by

    Cars in the UK, China, LA, CES and here : Robocar news update
    I see new articles on robocars in the press every day now, though most don’t say a lot new. Here, however, are some of the recent meaningful stories from the last month or two while I’ve been on t...
    01 January 2015, by

    Uber’s legal battles and robocars
    Uber is spreading fast, and running into protests from the industries it threatens, and in many places, the law has responded and banned, fined or restricted the service. I’m curious [tweetquote]wha...
    26 December 2014, by

    Google presents their actual autonomous car test prototype
    Google just unveiled their first ‘real-build’ self-driving prototype vehicle. This is a follow up to the concept presented in May and signifies the progress of this particular Google project....
    22 December 2014, by

    Future driving: Business models for robocars
    When I talk about robocars, I often get quite opposite reactions: Americans, in particular, will never give up car ownership! You can pry the bent steering wheel from my cold, dead hands. I can...
    11 December 2014, by
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    Mobility Transformation Facility, with Edwin Olson

    NEW: Full transcript below. In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks with Edwin Olson, an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, about the University’s 32-acre testing environment for auton...
    28 November 2014, by

    Your car may be programmed to kill you — and 9 more fun facts about self-driving vehicles | Yahoo Tech
    The most famous driverless cars in the world belong to Google. Since 2009, its experiments have clocked more than 750,000 miles on California roads with neither a driver nor an accident. But Google’...
    10 November 2014, by

    SMART begins live public robocar tests in Singapore today
    Robocar R&D is moving fast in Singapore, and this week, the National University of Singapore (NUS) announced they will be doing a live public demo of their autonomous golf carts over a course wi...
    23 October 2014, by

    Tesla’s auto lane-changing, Audi’s self-driving race car and other recent announcements
    Tesla is certainly an important company to watch. As the first successful start-up car company in the USA, they are showing they know how to do things differently, taking advantage of the fact that th...
    22 October 2014, by

    Robocars: A natural fit for retirement communities
    As people get older, they start losing their ability to drive: they start having trouble seeing in the dark and they stop driving at night; they also make mistakes, causing other people to hit them, a...
    18 October 2014, by

    Move over, humans, the robocars are coming | Washington Post
    My prediction is that in fewer than 15 years, we will be debating whether human beings should be allowed to drive on highways. After all, we are prone to road rage; rush headlong into traffic jams; b...
    14 October 2014, by

    Livestream: Cato Institute on “Policy implications of self-driving cars”
    October 14, 2014 12:00PM EST Featuring Randal O’Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Marc Scribner, Research Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute; and Adam Thierer, Senior Research Fellow, ...
    14 October 2014, by

    Self-driving car test sites
    Swarm communication and urban city driving are integral to the safe deployment of self-driving cars. Mercedes-Benz and a joint Michigan-based consortium are setting up secure test sites in California ...
    08 October 2014, by

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