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Autonomous Cars
Video: Robocar Q&A
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
20 Jul 2015
At Singularity U, we’re releasing a new video series answering questions about our future technology topics that come from Twitter. My segment is one of the first, and while regular readers of my bl...
Robocar roundup: Google accidents, Baidu cars, startups and more
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
11 Jun 2015
Here’s a roundup of news stories in the field of robocars....
Will motion sickness really be a barrier to self-driving cars?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
14 Apr 2015
Earlier this week I was sent some advance research from the U of Michigan about car sickness rates for car passengers. I found the research of interest, but wish it had covered some questions I think ...
“Anyone who focuses on tech alone hasn’t grasped how autonomous driving will change society”
Frank Tobe
01 Apr 2015
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....
Slow down that runaway ethical trolley
Bryant Walker Smith
13 Jan 2015
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...
Robocars driving when the map is wrong
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
02 Jan 2015
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...
Cars in the UK, China, LA, CES and here : Robocar news update
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
01 Jan 2015
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...
Uber’s legal battles and robocars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
26 Dec 2014
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...
Google presents their actual autonomous car test prototype
Ioannis K. Erripis
22 Dec 2014
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....
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Mobility Transformation Facility, with Edwin Olson
Audrow Nash
28 Nov 2014
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...
Your car may be programmed to kill you — and 9 more fun facts about self-driving vehicles | Yahoo Tech
CIS Blog
10 Nov 2014
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’...
SMART begins live public robocar tests in Singapore today
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
23 Oct 2014
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...
Tesla’s auto lane-changing, Audi’s self-driving race car and other recent announcements
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
22 Oct 2014
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...
Robocars: A natural fit for retirement communities
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
18 Oct 2014
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...
Move over, humans, the robocars are coming | Washington Post
CIS Blog
14 Oct 2014
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...
Livestream: Cato Institute on “Policy implications of self-driving cars”
Robohub Editors
14 Oct 2014
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, ...
Autonomous cars 101 | Brad Templeton via Big Think
Robohub Editors
25 Aug 2014
http://youtu.be/1BylX2XwwAM
Brad Templeton explains how autonomous vehicles will be a major disruptive innovation arriving sooner than most are expecting. Templeton is Board Member and Former Chair...
How do you want to interface with your autonomous car? Poll results
Open Roboethics Initiative
07 Jul 2014
Those of you who watched the 80’s TV series “Knight Rider” might remember the dialogue between Michael Knight and its super-car, KITT. Some of you might be more familiar with scenes between “J...
Don’t laugh; the new Google prototype car has implications for your business
Paul Godsmark
30 Jun 2014
It may look amusing and easily dismissed as a novelty prototype many years from production, but take a good look at a technology that in a few short years is going to transform your life and have majo...
My (autonomous) car, my safety: Results from our reader poll
Open Roboethics Initiative
30 Jun 2014
You are travelling along a single lane mountain road in an autonomous car that is approaching a narrow tunnel. You are the only passenger of the car....
Autonomous vehicles: A powerful tool if you can get the problem right
Peter Norton
25 Jun 2014
“When the American people, through their Congress, voted for a twenty-six-billion-dollar highway program, the most charitable thing to assume is that they hadn’t the faintest notion of what they w...
Reader poll: How would you like to interface with your autonomous car?
Open Roboethics Initiative
24 Jun 2014
We interact with gadgets and devices everyday … some have blinking lights, some play sounds, and some can even decipher our voice commands. When it comes to interfacing with a device as exciting an...
If death by autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die? Reader poll results
Open Roboethics Initiative
23 Jun 2014
Image credit: Craig Berry
Life and death decisions make interesting thought experiments. When you throw an autonomous car into the mix, things get even more interesting....
An ethical dilemma: When robot cars must kill, who should pick the victim?
Jason Millar
11 Jun 2014
Image credit: Craig Berry
We are moving closer to having driverless cars on roads everywhere, and naturally, people are starting to wonder what kinds of ethical challenges driverless cars will pose. ...
The car in your driveway may be more autonomous than you think
Ioannis K. Erripis
11 Jun 2014
[Jaguar XF, ESC test by EuroNCAP - photo: EuroNCAP ]
Did you know that the majority of the cars we buy and drive today are able to act by themselves and maneuver themselves out of an accident? They...
Reader poll: If a death by an autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die?
Open Roboethics Initiative
10 Jun 2014
Image source: Karora via Wikipedia.
There may be times when an accident or a death is unavoidable while an autonomous car is controlling the wheel.
What should an autonomous car do when such ...
Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed? Results from our reader poll
Open Roboethics Initiative
09 Jun 2014
Our previous poll, which asked (among other questions) whether kids should be allowed to ride in autonomous vehicles by themselves, revealed that responsibility is a key issue for most people. Are we ...
How do self-driving cars work?
Shima Rayej
03 Jun 2014
Nissan’s autonomous car prototype - 2013, photo:Nissan Global
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, recently announced that the car manufacturer will produce self-driving cars within three years. Nissan has announ...
Pure autonomy: Google’s new purpose-built self driving car
Ioannis K. Erripis
28 May 2014
Google completed a major step in its long and extensive self-driving cars project by presenting its first purpose-built autonomous car, which is designed from scratch for its role and is not a modifie...
Reader Poll: Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed?
Open Roboethics Initiative
27 May 2014
We conducted two polls last month in collaboration with the Open Roboethics initiative to get a sense of what people think about autonomous cars. Our polls started some interesting discussions arou...
Kids with wheels: Should the unlicensed be allowed to ‘drive’ autonomous cars?
Open Roboethics Initiative
26 May 2014
Share your opinion and take our next reader poll: Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed?Reader poll results: Earlier this month, when we asked people about your general thoughts on autonomous c...
The autonomous driving r/evolution: Call to contribute to Robohub Focus
Hallie Siegel
21 May 2014
While a city full of autonomous taxis may seem part of a distant future, sophisticated driver-assistance systems such as ABS, cruise-control, lane-keeping and self-parking are already a reality in t...
Reader poll: Should the unlicensed be allowed to ‘drive’ an autonomous car?
Open Roboethics Initiative
13 May 2014
Image from Wikimedia Commons
Two weeks ago we published our first reader poll in collaboration with the Open Roboethics initiative in order to find out more about what people think about autono...
What do people think about autonomous cars? Results from our reader poll
Open Roboethics Initiative
12 May 2014
What do people think are the main advantages of owning an autonomous car? Do people think autonomous cars should be easily identifiable? How much money are people willing to pay for an autonomous car ...
Reader poll: What do you think about autonomous cars?
Open Roboethics Initiative
29 Apr 2014
Today we drive our cars. In the future they’ll do the driving.
Autonomous cars are no longer a far-off futuristic dream, but something that we can expect to see on the road within the next dec...
Transportation 2025 and beyond: Discussion with Rodney Slater
CIS Blog
09 Apr 2014
In this discussion moderated by Stanford's Bryant Walker Smith, the Honorable Rodney Slater talks about the opportunities, challenges and best pathways for successful transportation innovation and pol...
