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Robocars at CES: BMW

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 09 Jan 2015

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...

Robocars at CES: Supervised traffic jam assist

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 08 Jan 2015

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....

Robocars at CES: Mercedes concept

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 07 Jan 2015

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...

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...

Future driving: Business models for robocars

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 11 Dec 2014

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�...

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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...

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...

Self-driving car test sites

Frank Tobe 08 Oct 2014

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 ...

Live webstream: Risks and opportunities for the auto re/insurance industry

Robohub Editors 24 Sep 2014

Today between 08:30-17:00 CET This live webstream by the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue brings together a comprehensive spectrum of perspectives and expertise on advanced driver assistance syste...

Rain on Google’s self-driving car parade

Frank Tobe 02 Sep 2014

Auto World News reminds us that Google's self-driving car can't navigate heavy rain or most roads and that there are still many challenges to solve....

The two cultures of robocars

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 24 Jul 2014

I have many more comments pending on my observations from the recent AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicles Symposium, but for today I would like to put forward an observation I made about two broad schools of ...

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...

SAE defines six levels of driving automation

Bryant Walker Smith 07 Feb 2014

Photo: Osvaldo Gago SAE International's On-Road Automated Vehicle Standards Committee, on which I serve along with experts from industry and government, has released an information report defini...

Human error as a cause of vehicle crashes

Bryant Walker Smith 07 Feb 2014

Source: Wonderlane. Some ninety percent of motor vehicle crashes are caused at least in part by human error. This intuitive claim is a fine place to start discussions about the safety potenti...

Who gets a ticket when there’s no one behind the wheel? | Marketplace

CIS Blog 28 Aug 2013

Bryant Walker Smith, fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, discusses the new legal issues presented by having cars with no drivers. See more: Marketplace...

States develop legislation for driverless cars | USA Today

CIS Blog 29 Jul 2013

In California, Nevada, Florida and the District of Columbia, the future of transportation is now: All four jurisdictions are setting ground rules for self-driving cars on the roads. Read more...

Tune your engine: Driverless car technology | Radio New Zealand

CIS Blog 29 Jul 2013

Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford Centers for Automotive Research and Internet and Society, looks at developments in driverless car technology. Originally aired on: Radio New Ze...

What driverless car entrepreneurs can learn from the aviation industry | Australian Broadcasting Company

CIS Blog 16 Jul 2013

The former vice-president of research and development for General Motors is a champion of the ‘driverless car’. He sees a time when traffic in our cities will swarm like insects, with cars communi...

Roadmap for driverless cars: Five highlights | The Wall Street Journal

CIS Blog 04 Jun 2013

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Thursday came out with a road map for navigating the future of self-driving cars. Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford Law School who st...

Smart vehicles are here: Can government keep pace? | NY Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference

CIS Blog 29 Apr 2013

The pressures are building for safer and smarter vehicles on our roads, raising questions about the national, state and local policies that will emerge. Several states are already early adopters of le...

Why driverless cars are ‘probably’ legal | The Atlantic Cities

CIS Blog 01 Apr 2013

The biggest roadblock facing a driverless world isn't necessarily technology, but legality. The question of who would be liable in the event of an accident — the human "driver," the car's owner, the...

Who’s liable when a driverless car crashes? | NPR

CIS Blog 12 Mar 2013

It's absolutely the case that after the first accident involving an automated vehicle, there will be an automated ambulance chaser following. - Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Informati...

Nissan opens Silicon Valley center for self-driving car research | Bloomberg

Andra Keay 22 Feb 2013

Nissan Motor Co. opened a research center in California’s Silicon Valley that the Japanese carmaker plans to make its hub for research on self-driving vehicles and Internet-connected auto technology...

CMURobotics RI Seminar: Mel Torrie of Autonomous Solutions

John Payne 02 Feb 2013

As guest speaker for a CMURobotics RI Seminar, titled Lessons Learned Bootstrapping a Robotic Vehicle Company, Mel Torrie of Autonomous Solutions (Petersboro, Utah), describes how he got into robotics...

Robotics year in review: Top 10 stories of 2012

David Pietrocola 26 Dec 2012

The past year was a watershed moment for robotics. From defense to exploration, startups to legislation, we saw products, laws, and investments that have shifted robotics out of the lab and into our l...

SARTRE project concludes, reveals blissful future of car travel | IEEE Spectrum

Andra Keay 26 Sep 2012

Volvo has an operational system that lets cars you can buy today drive themselves on highways... Pertinent to the US, with the California autonomous vehicle legislation passing yesterday. See on spe...

Google car zooms toward legal status | baycitizen.org

Sabine Hauert 25 Sep 2012

After lobbying by Google, California passes legislation to allow autonomous cars on highways. See on www.baycitizen.org...

Study: Intelligent cars could boost highway capacity by 273% | IEEE Spectrum

Andra Keay 10 Sep 2012

See on m.spectrum.ieee.org...

Stanford’s self-driving car tears it up on racetrack – tops 120 MPH | Singularity Hub

Andra Keay 19 Aug 2012

The current run through Thunderhill is another example of how Stanford and Volkswagen engineers are set on pushing robotic car performance to its limits, quite different from Google’s singular goal ...

Google gets patent for driverless car

Frank Tobe 18 Dec 2011

... Google was granted a US Patent “for transitioning a mixed-mode autonomous vehicle from a human driven mode to an autonomously driven mode.” ... Now comes the endless red tape over safety, neg...

Making a car for blind drivers, by Dennis Hong

Ioannis K. Erripis 06 Jun 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2OQxHNVLNY In this recently released TED talk, Dennis Hong from VirginiaTech presents all the recent developments of his RoMeLa Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory...

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