Brad Templeton

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...