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    One million robots work in car industry worldwide – new record
      26 Mar 2023
    Automotive industry is a front runner in automation.

    Year end summary: Top Robocar stories of 2022
      10 Jan 2023
    Here's my annual summary of the top stories of the prior year. This time the news was a strong mix of bad and good.

    Researchers release open-source photorealistic simulator for autonomous driving
      22 Jun 2022
    MIT scientists unveil the first open-source simulation engine capable of constructing realistic environments for deployable training and testing of autonomous vehicles.
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    Autonomous Need for Speed, with Joe Speed

      08 Apr 2022
    Joe Speed, VP of Product at ApexAI, dives into the current multi-year development process of bringing a car to market, and how ApexAI will transform this process into the shorter development time we see with modern technology.

    California’s AV testing rules apply to Tesla’s “FSD”
    and   10 Jan 2022
    Tesla is testing its self-proclaimed “full self-driving” vehicles on California roads without complying with the testing requirements of California’s automated driving law.

    Tesla’s fatal crash
      26 Apr 2018
    Tesla can do better than its current public response to the recent fatal crash involving one of its vehicles. I would like to see more introspection, credibility, and nuance....

    Gallery of photos from CES 2018, and other news
      29 Jan 2018
    I have created a gallery in Google Photos with some of the more interesting items I saw at CES, with the bulk of them being related to robocars, robotic delivery and transportation....

    Tons of LIDARs at CES 2018
      17 Jan 2018
    When it comes to robocars, new LIDAR products were the story of CES 2018. Far more companies showed off LIDAR products than can succeed, with a surprising variety of approaches. CES is now the 5th lar...

    Top Robocar news of 2017
      04 Jan 2018
    Here are the biggest Robocar stories of 2017....

    The senate’s automated driving bill could squash state authority
      31 Oct 2017
    My previous post on the House and Senate automated driving bills (HB 3388 and SB 1885) concluded by noting that, in addition to the federal government, states and the municipalities within them also p...

    Congress’ automated driving bills are both more and less than they seem
      27 Oct 2017
    Bills being considered by Congress deserve our attention—but not our full attention. To wit: When it comes to safety-related regulation of automated driving, existing law is at least as important as...

    Robocars will make traffic worse before it gets better
      25 Oct 2017
    Many websites paint a very positive picture of the robocar future. And it is positive, but far from perfect. One problem I worry about in the short term is the way robocars are going to make traffic w...

    How to start with self-driving cars using ROS
      24 Oct 2017
    Self-driving cars are inevitable. In recent years, self-driving cars have become a priority for automotive companies. BMW, Bosch, Google, Baidu, Toyota, GE, Tesla, Ford, Uber and Volvo are investin...

    3 Questions: Iyad Rahwan on the “psychological roadblocks” facing self-driving cars
      12 Sep 2017
    by Peter Dizikes This summer, a survey released by the American Automobile Association showed that 78 percent of Americans feared riding in a self-driving car, with just 19 percent trusting the techn...

    Federal regulations pass next hurdle
      21 Jul 2017
    This week's news is preliminary, but a U.S. house committee panel passed some new federal regulations which suggest sweeping change in the US regulatory approach to robocars....

    Baidu’s self-driving tech plans revealed
      09 Jul 2017
    In the race to develop self-driving technology, Chinese Internet giant Baidu unveiled its 50+ partners in an open source development program, revised its timeline for introducing autonomous ...

    Simulated car demo using ROS Kinetic and Gazebo 8
      04 Jul 2017
    By Tully Foote We are excited to show off a simulation of a Prius in Mcity using ROS Kinetic and Gazebo 8. ROS enabled the simulation to be developed faster by using existing software and libraries...

    Can we test robocars the way we tested regular cars?
      30 Jun 2017
    I’ve written a few times that perhaps the biggest unsolved problem in robocars is how to know we have made them safe enough. While most people think of that in terms of government certification, the...

    It’s not just self-driving cars; trains could soon be autonomous too!
      20 Jun 2017
    Judging by the frequency that self-driving cars are mentioned in scientific discussions and the media, they are not only the next big thing, but might actually take over as our main means of transport...

    New laissez-faire robocar rules may arise
      19 Jun 2017
    While very few details have come out, Reuters reports that new proposed congressional bills on self-driving cars will reverse many of the provisions I critiqued in the NHTSA regulations last year....

    VENTURER driverless car project publishes results of first trials
      05 Jun 2017
    VENTURER is the first Connected and Autonomous Vehicle project to start in the UK. The results of VENTURER preliminary trials show that the handover process is a safety critical issue in the developme...

    Transportation as a service (TaaS): A look ahead
      15 May 2017
    SoftBank Group just invested $5 billion in China's Didi Chuxing, China's biggest ride-sharing service. Last year Uber sold their China business to Didi resolving (by giving up) all the legal and antit...

    Dr Nathan Griffiths: Driverless cars? How the road to the future will be driven by machine learning
    and   01 May 2017
    Over the past few weeks, we’ve blogged about how machine learning is transforming research, nuclear decommissioning, and astronomy. Building on our “Ask the Experts” panel discussion on driverle...

    Robocar news: Waymo starts pilot in Phoenix, Apple car gets more real, and the flying car takes off
      26 Apr 2017
    Waymo (Google) has announced a pilot project in Phoenix offering a full ride service in their new minivans. Members of the public can sign up — the link is sure to be overwhelmed with applicants, bu...

    Looking ahead to the future of computer-driven cars
      21 Apr 2017
    The field of transportation is undergoing a seismic shift with the introduction of autonomous driving — or computer-driven cars. Computer vision scientist and Mobileye co-founder Amnon Shashua PhD ...

    Luminar unstealths their 1.5 micron LIDAR
      15 Apr 2017
    Luminar, a bay area startup, has revealed details on their new LIDAR. Unlike all other commercial offerings, this is a LIDAR using 1.5 micron infrared light. They hope to sell it for $1,000....

    No, Detroit is not winning the robocar race
      05 Apr 2017
    A new report from Navigant Research includes the chart shown below, ranking various teams on the race to robocar deployment. It’s causing lots of press headlines about how Ford is the top company an...

    LIDAR (lasers) and cameras together: Which is more important?
      29 Mar 2017
    Recently we’ve seen a series of startups arise hoping to make robocars with just computer vision, along with radar. That includes recently unstealthed AutoX, the off-again, on again efforts of comma...

    Choreographing automated cars could save time, money and lives
      15 Mar 2017
    If you take humans out of the driving seat, could traffic jams, accidents and high fuel bills become a thing of the past? As cars become more automated and connected, attention is turning to how to be...

    Split-second decisions: Navigating the fine line between man and machine
      13 Mar 2017
    Today’s self-driving car isn’t exactly autonomous – the driver has to be able to take over in a pinch, and therein lies the roadblock researchers are trying to overcome. Automated cars are hurtl...

    By 2030, will traffic jams be a thing of the past?
      03 Mar 2017
    Imagine a future where self-driving cars, trains and buses are all seamlessly connected through an app, where traffic jams are a thing of the past and redundant car parks have been turned into green s...

    Should California electrify Caltrain or invest in robocars?
      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.]...

    Ford Motor to invest $1 billion in Pittsburgh startup Argo AI
      15 Feb 2017
    Argo AI, a Pittsburgh startup, has sold a majority share of their company to Ford Motor Co. which has agreed to invest $1 billion over a five-year schedule but will immediately become the majority sh...

    Uber talks of deal with Daimler which shows Uber’s great advantage
      10 Feb 2017
    I generally pay very little attention when companies issue a press release about an “alliance.” It’s usually not a lot more than a press release, unless there are details on what will actually b...

    California publishes robocar intervention reports: Google/Waymo vastly outpaces competition
      08 Feb 2017
    California published its summary of all the reports submitted by vendors testing robocars in the state. You can read the individual reports. They are interesting, but several other outlines have creat...

    Combining automation and mobility to create a smarter world
      20 Jan 2017
    By: Catherine Marguerite | Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Daniela Rus loves Singapore. As the MIT professor sits down in her Frank Gehry-designed office in Cambridge, Massachus...

     
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