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Uber must follow California’s laws

Bryant Walker Smith 19 Dec 2016

Uber is testing its self-proclaimed “self-driving” vehicles on California roads without complying with the testing requirements of California’s automated driving law. California’s Department o...

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...

The inevitability of the global march toward self-driving vehicles

Frank Tobe 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 ...

Could robotaxis be the answer to electric car depreciation?

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 21 Jan 2016

I’ve been electric car shopping, but one thing has stood out as a big concern. Many electric cars are depreciating fast, and it may get even faster. I think part of this is due to the fact that elec...

US feds propose $4B investment in robocars, seek unified regulatory policy

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 18 Jan 2016

NHTSA, the federal car safety agency, has been talking about getting into the robocar game for a while, and now declares it wants more involvement with two important details: Unlike California, th...

Google’s detailed intervention rates reveal the real unsolved problem of robocars

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 15 Jan 2016

Hot on the heels of my CES Report is the release of the latest article from Chris Urmson on The View from the Front Seat of the Google Car. Chris heads engineering on the project (and until recently l...

Robocar news from CES 2016

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 13 Jan 2016

I’m back from CES 2016 with a raft of robocar news, some of which was reported before the show. Almost everybody in the robocar space had something to say — even if it was only to have something...

Two New Year’s resolutions for developers of automated vehicles

Bryant Walker Smith 12 Jan 2016

In the spirit of the New Year, and especially in the wake of California's draft rules for the (theoretical) operation of automated motor vehicles, I offer two resolutions for any serious developer of ...

The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars

CIS Blog 30 Dec 2015

Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can’t completely avoid accidents altogether. ...

California’s new DMV regulations may kill the state’s robocar lead

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 18 Dec 2015

Be careful what you wish for. Google had previously requested that state regulations on robocars be clarified, to help ensure that their cars were legal. When California's DMV finally released its pr...

Why Tesla’s Autopilot and Google’s car are entirely different animals

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 28 Oct 2015

In the buzz over the Tesla autopilot update, a lot of commentary has appeared comparing this Autopilot with Google’s car effort and other efforts and what I would call a “real” robocar — one t...

Tesla sends highway cruise update to recent Model S owners

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 16 Oct 2015

Though it's been anticipated for a few months now, Tesla announced yesterday the release of their highway cruise update for Model S cars from the last year....

Should cars be fully driverless? No, says MIT engineer and historian David Mindell

MIT News 15 Oct 2015

by Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office If you follow technology news — or even if you don’t — you have probably heard that numerous companies have been trying to develop driverless cars for a de...

Robocar news roundup: Google’s hire, BMW/Mercedes carsharing, Apple clues, and more

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 14 Oct 2015

View image | gettyimages.com During a very busy September of travel, I let a number of important stories fall through the cracks. The volume of mainstream press articles on Robocars is immense. Mos...

Robocars don’t need fancy dashboards and streets

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 07 Oct 2015

Yesterday I attended the “Silicon Valley reinvents the wheel” conference by the Western Automotive Journalists, which had a variety of talks and demonstrations of new car technology. Now that rob...

IEEE driverless car roundtable

CIS Blog 30 Sep 2015

[focus07] Hear about the current state of the driverless vehicle industry from experts including IEEE Member Jeffrey Miller, IEEE Fellow Wei-Bin Zhang, Bernard Soriano, and Bryant Walker Smith. In ...

Peloton Technology gets $17M for truck platooning tech

Frank Tobe 01 Sep 2015

Peloton Technology, a Silicon Valley startup providing truck platooning technology, got $17 million from strategic investors after receiving $16M this April. Denso Intl. was the lead investor in both...

Automated Vehicles Symposium recap (Part 2)

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 27 Jul 2015

From small beginnings, over 800 people are here at the Ann Arbor AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicles symposium. Let’s summarize some of the news....

When do robocars become cheaper than standard cars? Automated Vehicle Symposium recap (Part 1)

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 24 Jul 2015

I’m in the Detroit area for the annual TRB/AUVSI Automated Vehicle Symposium. Those in Ann Arbor attended the opening of the new test track at the University of Michigan, but I was at a small event ...

Will robocars vastly increase battery life?

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 21 Jul 2015

We know electric cars are getting better and likely to get popular even when driven by humans. Tesla, at its core, is a battery technology company as much as it’s a car company, and it is sometimes ...

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....

The social car: Simplifying autonomous action with Thing Theory

Sally Applin and Michael Fischer 10 Jun 2015

Automating vehicles simplifies operation for humans but also increases complexity. In order to negotiate a safe journey within a crowded transportation system, cars must communicate messages not only...

Delphi completes trans-continental drive, and Hyundai goes big

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 08 Apr 2015

Most recent robocar press has been about the Delphi drive from San Francisco to New York, which is now completed. Congratulations to the team. Few teams have tried to do such a long course that invo...

“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....

Delphi’s cross-country trip, and a raft of other robocar news

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 31 Mar 2015

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....

Issues in regulating robocars, and the case for a light hand

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 04 Mar 2015

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...

Uber price in LA approaches robocar cheap

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 02 Mar 2015

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....

Keep Calm and Carry Passengers: UK robocar projects level up

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 13 Feb 2015

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...

Programming safety into self-driving cars

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 06 Feb 2015

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...

Will robocars use V2V at all?

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 03 Feb 2015

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...

Uber to collaborate with CMU on robocars

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 03 Feb 2015

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....

UMich team works on perception and localization using cameras

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 27 Jan 2015

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)...

Might the first, supervised robocars be… well… boring?

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 23 Jan 2015

Let me confess a secret fear. I suspect that the first “autopilot” functions on cars are going to be a bit boring....

Robocar parking

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 19 Jan 2015

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 ...

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