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Should California electrify Caltrain or invest in robocars?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
20 Feb 2017
[Editor's note: According to a recent article on SFGate, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has put the brakes on $647 million for Caltrain to go electric. The delay may kill the project entirely.]...
Flying cars are coming, what will they mean?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
27 Jan 2017
Earlier I posted my gallery of CES gadgets and included a photo of the eHang 184 from China, a “personal drone” able, in theory, to carry a person up to 100kg.
Whether the eHang is real or not...
NHTSA ODI report exonerates Tesla in fatal crash
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
20 Jan 2017
NHTSA released the report from their Office of Defects Investigation on the fatal Tesla crash in Florida last spring. It’s a report that is surprisingly favorable to Tesla. So much so that even I am...
CES 2017, part one: Robocar technology and concept cars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
17 Jan 2017
CES is the big event for major car makers to show off robocar technology. Most of the north hall, and a giant parking lot next to it, were devoted to car technology and self-driving demos....
Robocar news: Comma One goes open source, creating simulations for robocars in New Zealand earthquakes
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
02 Dec 2016
There have been few postings this month, as I took the time to enjoy a holiday in New Zealand around speaking at the SingularityU New Zealand summit in Christchurch. The night before the summit, we en...
Breaking down robotaxi economics
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
14 Sep 2016
The vision of many of us for robocars is a world of less private car ownership and more use of robotaxis — on-demand ride service in a robocar. That’s what companies like Uber clearly are pushing ...
Robocar recap: Uber buys Otto, folks leave Google, Ford goes big, Tesla drops MobilEye
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
23 Aug 2016
Brad Templeton, from Robocars.com, discusses the latest robocar related news....
50 different state regulations for robocars is not a bad idea
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
18 Aug 2016
At the recent AUVSI/TRB conference in San Francisco, there was talk of upcoming regulation, particularly from NHTSA. Secretary of Transportation Foxx and his NHTSA staff spoke with just vague hints ab...
Will robocars be heaven or hell for our cities?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
15 Aug 2016
Robin Chase wrote an article wondering if robocars will improve or ruin our cities and asked for my comment on it. It’s a long article, and I have lots of comment, since I have been considering thes...
Robocar platooning, or just carpool?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
12 Aug 2016
At the recent AUVSI/TRB symposium, a popular research topic was platooning for robocars and trucks. Platooning is perhaps the oldest practical proposal when it comes to car automation because you can ...
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...
