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    Uber must follow California’s laws
    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...
    19 December 2016, by

    Google car is now Waymo
    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...
    14 December 2016, by

    The inevitability of the global march toward self-driving vehicles
    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 ...
    22 January 2016, by

    Could robotaxis be the answer to electric car depreciation?
    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...
    21 January 2016, by

    US feds propose $4B investment in robocars, seek unified regulatory policy
    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...
    18 January 2016, by

    Google’s detailed intervention rates reveal the real unsolved problem of robocars
    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...
    15 January 2016, by



    Robocar news from CES 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...
    13 January 2016, by

    Two New Year’s resolutions for developers of automated vehicles
    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 ...
    12 January 2016, by

    The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars
    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. ...
    30 December 2015, by

    California’s new DMV regulations may kill the state’s robocar lead
    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...
    18 December 2015, by

    Why Tesla’s Autopilot and Google’s car are entirely different animals
    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...
    28 October 2015, by

    Tesla sends highway cruise update to recent Model S owners
    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....
    16 October 2015, by

    Should cars be fully driverless? No, says MIT engineer and historian David Mindell
    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...
    15 October 2015, by

    Robocar news roundup: Google’s hire, BMW/Mercedes carsharing, Apple clues, and more
    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...
    14 October 2015, by

    Robocars don’t need fancy dashboards and streets
    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...
    07 October 2015, by

    IEEE driverless car roundtable
    [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 ...
    30 September 2015, by

    Peloton Technology gets $17M for truck platooning tech
    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...
    01 September 2015, by

    Automated Vehicles Symposium recap (Part 2)
    From small beginnings, over 800 people are here at the Ann Arbor AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicles symposium. Let’s summarize some of the news....
    27 July 2015, by

    When do robocars become cheaper than standard cars? Automated Vehicle Symposium recap (Part 1)
    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 ...
    24 July 2015, by

    Will robocars vastly increase battery life?
    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 ...
    21 July 2015, by

    Robocar roundup: Google accidents, Baidu cars, startups and more
    Here’s a roundup of news stories in the field of robocars....
    11 June 2015, by

    The social car: Simplifying autonomous action with Thing Theory
    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...
    10 June 2015, by and

    Delphi completes trans-continental drive, and Hyundai goes big
    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...
    08 April 2015, by

    “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

     
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