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    NHTSA ODI report exonerates Tesla in fatal crash
      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
      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....

    No, a Tesla didn’t predict an accident and brake for it
      11 Jan 2017
    You may have seen a lot of press around a dashcam video of a car accident in the Netherlands. It shows a Tesla in AutoPilot hitting the brakes around 1.4 seconds before a red car crashes hard into a b...

    CES 2017 pre-news: Ford Fusion, Nvidia, MobilEye, HERE, BMW, Intel and other partnerships
      05 Jan 2017
    Thursday night, and I am heading off to CES, and it’s become the main show it seems for announcing robocar news. There’s already a bunch....

    What are the right disability rules for robotaxis?
      26 Dec 2016
    Robocars are broadly going to be a huge boon for many people with disabilities, especially disabilities that make it difficult to drive or those that make it hard to get in and out of vehicles. Exist...

    Google car is now Waymo
      14 Dec 2016
    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...

    What if the city ran Waze and you had to obey it? Could this cure congestion?
      09 Dec 2016
    I believe we have the potential to eliminate a major fraction of traffic congestion in the near future, using technology that exists today which will be cheap in the future. The method has been outlin...

    Robocar news: Comma One goes open source, creating simulations for robocars in New Zealand earthquakes
      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...

    The delicate balance between brilliance, safety and arrogance
      01 Nov 2016
    Silicon Valley and other technology centers have their share of brilliant minds. Some of them have similarly outstanding egos. A few of those have very short fuses. Such is the story of George Hotz....

    Comma.ai cancels comma-one add-on box after threats from NHTSA
      31 Oct 2016
    Comma.ai, the brash startup attempting to make a self-driving system entirely from a neural network has announced it will cancel the “comma one” add-on box it has planned to sell to owners of cert...

    Oxbotica’s autonomous vehicle software learns its environment and how it changes over time
      10 Oct 2016
    Oxbotica, a UK technology company with a focus on mobile robotics and driverless vehicles, has created Selenium, an autonomous software system acting similar to a 'brain' for a vehicle. Selenium can...

    Robocar parking is incredibly cheap
      27 Sep 2016
    Some people have wondered about my forecast in the spreadsheet on robotaxi economics about the very low parking costs I have predicted. I wrote about most of the reasons for this in my 2007 essay on R...

    Michigan’s automated driving bills
      26 Sep 2016
    Michigan's Senate are reviewing several bills related to automated driving. SB995, 996, 997, and 998 are now out of committee, and SB 927 and 928 are not far behind. These bills seem to be a mixed bag...

    US Department of Transportation issues guidance for automated driving
      21 Sep 2016
    With the recent announcement, the US Department of Transportation is enthusiastically embracing automated driving. It's saying that self-driving vehicles are coming in some form (or many forms) and th...

    Robocar recap: Tesla radar, MobilEye fight, and the Comma One $1,000 add-on-box
      20 Sep 2016
    Tesla’s spat with MobilEye reached a new pitch this week with Tesla announcing a new release of their autopilot and plans. As reported earlier, MobilEye announced during the summer that they would n...

    Pittsburgh and Singapore are now pilot sites for self-driving car services
      19 Sep 2016
    Two self-driving car events of note: Uber just began operating a fleet of Volvo self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, and nuTonomy launched the first autonomous pilot taxi program last month in Singapore. ...

    Breaking down robotaxi economics
      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
      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
      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?
      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?
      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 ...

    Singapore to begin testing on-demand robot taxis
      02 Aug 2016
    Delphi Automotive, the global provider of vehicle electronics components, will begin testing 6 phone-dispatched autonomous taxis in Singapore that will go point-to-point based on customer requests w...

    Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux: Some expected, some strange
      26 Jul 2016
    Today, I want to look at some implications of Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux which caused some buzz this week. There was other news, of course, including the AUVSI/TRB meeting which I attended, and ...

    Carpool apps are on the rise, let’s make transfer points and roads to help
      15 Jul 2016
    The cell phone ride hail apps like Uber and Lyft are now reporting great success with actual ride-sharing, under the names UberPool, LyftLines and Lyft Carpool. In addition, a whole new raft of apps t...

    Understanding the massive gulf between the Tesla Autopilot and a real robocar, in light of the crash
      11 Jul 2016
    Brad Templeton describes Tesla’s Autopilot as a 'distant cousin of a real robocar' that primarily uses a MobilEye EyeQ3 camera combined with radars and ultrasonic sensors. Unlike robocar sensors, T...
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    Self-Driving Cars: From Research to Road, with Karl Iagnemma

      09 Jul 2016
    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Karl Iagnemma, a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO of nuTonomy, about autonomous vehicles in urban env...

    Should Tesla disable your Autopilot if you’re not diligent? Plus, a survey of robocar validation
      06 Jul 2016
    In this article, Brad Templeton provides a rundown of different approaches for validation of self-driving and driver assist systems, a recommendation to Tesla and others to have countermeasures to det...

    Designing simple, cheap cars of the future
      17 Jun 2016
    What does that car of the future look like? There is no one answer; in this world, the car that is sent to pick you up can be tailored for your trip. The more people traveling, the bigger the car. If ...

    Letting policymakers handle the trolley problem
      10 Jun 2016
    When I give talks on robocars the most common question asked is the one known as the “trolley problem” question. That is: “what will the car do if it has to choose between killing one person or ...

    How much can customers test robocars?
      07 Jun 2016
    Reports from Tesla suggest they are gathering massive amounts of driving data from logs in their cars — 780 million miles of driving, and as much as 100 million miles in autopilot mode. This contras...

    An alternative to specific regulations for robocars: A liability doubling
      02 Jun 2016
    Can our emotional fear of machines, and the call for premature regulation, be mollified by a temporary increase in liability which takes the place of specific regulations to keep people safe? So fa...

    Robocar news around the globe: Tesla crash, Declaration of Amsterdam, and automaker services
      01 Jun 2016
    We have the first report of a real Tesla autopilot crash. To be fair to Tesla, their owner warnings specify very clearly that the autopilot could crash in just this situation. In the video, there is ...

    Self-driving trucks are coming — what will that mean?
      18 May 2016
    Today sees the un-stealthing of a new company called Otto which plans to build self-driving systems for long haul trucks. The company has been formed by a skilled team, including former members of Goo...

    The coming nightmare for the car industry
      11 May 2016
    I have often written on the challenge facing existing automakers in the world of robocars. They need to learn to completely switch their way of thinking in a world of mobility on demand, and not all o...

    Google develops a Chrysler minivan
      05 May 2016
    If you had asked me recently what big car company was the furthest behind when it came to robocars, one likely answer would be Fiat-Chrysler. In fact, famously, Chrysler ran ads several years ago duri...

    What to expect from autonomous cars
      21 Apr 2016
    Over 25,700 people died in car crashes in the European Union in 2014, and 200,000 came home with life-changing injuries....

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