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Powering the robocar: Ultracapacitors and other energy sources
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
11 Jun 2015
A reader recently asked about the synergies between robocars and ultracapacitors / supercapacitors. It turns out they are not what you would expect, and it teaches some of the surprising lessons of ro...
Robocar roundup: Google accidents, Baidu cars, startups and more
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
11 Jun 2015
Here’s a roundup of news stories in the field of robocars....
Google to release monthly driving reports
Adriana Hamacher
09 Jun 2015
Google has started publicly disclosing details of accidents involving its self-driving cars....
Automated vehicle crashes
Bryant Walker Smith
29 May 2015
Earlier this month, the Associated Press reported on several past crashes involving automated vehicles. (Per SAE Standard J3016, I use the term "automated vehicle" instead of "autonomous veh...
Why Tesla’s purported liability ‘fix’ is technically and legally questionable
Bryant Walker Smith
26 May 2015
An interesting article in last week’s Wall Street Journal spawned a series of unfortunate headlines (in a variety of publications) suggesting that Tesla had somehow “solved” the “problem” ...
Robocar roundup: Google deploys nextgen cars on city streets; Mercedes Freightleiner tests in NV
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
19 May 2015
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Google has done over 2.7 million km of testing with their existing fleet, they announced. Now, they will be putting their small “buggy” vehicle onto real streets in Mountain View. The c...
Will motion sickness really be a barrier to self-driving cars?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
14 Apr 2015
Earlier this week I was sent some advance research from the U of Michigan about car sickness rates for car passengers. I found the research of interest, but wish it had covered some questions I think ...
Delphi completes trans-continental drive, and Hyundai goes big
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
08 Apr 2015
Most recent robocar press has been about the Delphi drive from San Francisco to New York, which is now completed. Congratulations to the team. Few teams have tried to do such a long course that invo...
“Anyone who focuses on tech alone hasn’t grasped how autonomous driving will change society”
Frank Tobe
01 Apr 2015
The way that consumers interact with and operate cars will transform most functions in commuting, travel, communications, car ownership, and many other as-yet unknown ways....
Delphi’s cross-country trip, and a raft of other robocar news
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
31 Mar 2015
There has been a ton of robocar news in the last four weeks. Below is just a small subset of the now constant stream of news items and articles that appear about robocars....
Issues in regulating robocars, and the case for a light hand
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
04 Mar 2015
All over the world, people (and governments) are debating about regulations for robocars. First for testing, and then for operation. It mostly began when Google encouraged the state of Nevada to write...
Uber price in LA approaches robocar cheap
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
02 Mar 2015
I was recently considering the price of UberX in Los Angeles. It’s gotten disturbingly low, with a flag drop costing as little as $0.18 per minute / $0.90 per mile....
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Sensors for Autonomous Driving, with Christoph Stiller
Audrow Nash
20 Feb 2015
In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christoph Stiller from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Stiller speaks about the sensors required for various level of autonomous driving, as well as the...
Will robocars use V2V at all?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
03 Feb 2015
I commonly see statements from connected car advocates that vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure communications are an important, even essential technology for robocar development. R...
Uber Chases Google in self-driving cars with Carnegie Mellon deal | WSJ
Hallie Siegel
03 Feb 2015
What might have been a budding partnership suddenly appeared to boil over into a pitched rivalry on Monday. Besides Uber’s disclosure that it will work on its own self-driving car technology, a Bloo...
No, Google and Uber aren’t going to war over self-driving cars | The Verge
Hallie Siegel
03 Feb 2015
This week, Uber has announced a self-driving research initiative in partnership with Carnegie Mellon, while Google is rumored to be investigating ride-sharing using its own self-driving cars. At a gla...
Google is developing its own Uber competitor | Bloomberg Business
Hallie Siegel
03 Feb 2015
Google Ventures, the search giant's venture capital arm, invested $258 million in Uber in August 2013. It was Google Ventures' largest investment deal ever, and the company put more money into Uber...
Uber to collaborate with CMU on robocars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
03 Feb 2015
Uber announced a strategic partnership with CMU yesterday, including a robocar lab in Pittsburg, and rumours reported in TechCrunch suggest Uber could be hiring up to 50 CMU folks to staff it....
UMich team works on perception and localization using cameras
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
27 Jan 2015
Some new results from the NGV Team at the University of Michigan describe different approaches for perception (detecting obstacles on the road) and localizations (figuring out precisely where you are)...
Might the first, supervised robocars be… well… boring?
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
23 Jan 2015
Let me confess a secret fear. I suspect that the first “autopilot” functions on cars are going to be a bit boring....
Robocar parking
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
19 Jan 2015
In my earlier article on robocar challenges I gave very brief coverage to the issue of parking. Challenged on that, I thought it was time to expand. The world “parking” means many things, and the ...
Robocars driving when the map is wrong
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
02 Jan 2015
Yesterday’s note on Here’s maps brought up the question of the wisdom of map-based driving. While I addressed this a bit earlier let me add a bit more detail.
A common first intuition is that b...
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...
Google presents their actual autonomous car test prototype
Ioannis K. Erripis
22 Dec 2014
Google just unveiled their first ‘real-build’ self-driving prototype vehicle. This is a follow up to the concept presented in May and signifies the progress of this particular Google project....
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...
Tesla’s auto lane-changing, Audi’s self-driving race car and other recent announcements
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
22 Oct 2014
Tesla is certainly an important company to watch. As the first successful start-up car company in the USA, they are showing they know how to do things differently, taking advantage of the fact that th...
Michigan latest state to ban direct Tesla sales | The Verge
Hallie Siegel
22 Oct 2014
Michigan has become the latest state to ban Tesla from selling its cars straight to consumers, with Governor Rick Snyder signing a law yesterday that prohibits direct sales. Michigan joins a growing n...
Robocars: A natural fit for retirement communities
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
18 Oct 2014
As people get older, they start losing their ability to drive: they start having trouble seeing in the dark and they stop driving at night; they also make mistakes, causing other people to hit them, a...
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 ...
Reader poll: Will autonomous cars create more jobs than they displace?
Open Roboethics Initiative
03 Sep 2014
One of the most popular questions when it comes to discussing robotics is the jobs question. Will robots create more jobs, or replace them? Recently, we’ve seen a lot of discussions on the topic o...
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....
