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    The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars
    Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can’t completely avoid accidents altogether. ...
    30 December 2015, by

    California’s new DMV regulations may kill the state’s robocar lead
    Be careful what you wish for. Google had previously requested that state regulations on robocars be clarified, to help ensure that their cars were legal. When California's DMV finally released its pr...
    18 December 2015, by

    No, a Google car was not ticketed for going too slow (and other robocar stories)
    Almost every newspaper in the world reported the story of how a motorcycle cop pulled over one of Google’s 3rd generation test cars, the 2-seaters, and many incorrectly reported that the car was gi...
    23 November 2015, by

    Why Tesla’s Autopilot and Google’s car are entirely different animals
    In the buzz over the Tesla autopilot update, a lot of commentary has appeared comparing this Autopilot with Google’s car effort and other efforts and what I would call a “real” robocar — one t...
    28 October 2015, by

    Stanford’s self-driving Delorean goes drifting for Back to the Future Day
    Last night, I attended Stanford’s unveiling of their newest research vehicle for self-driving. An old Delorean has been heavily modified in order to perform drifting experiments - where you let the ...
    21 October 2015, by

    Should cars be fully driverless? No, says MIT engineer and historian David Mindell
    by Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office If you follow technology news — or even if you don’t — you have probably heard that numerous companies have been trying to develop driverless cars for a de...
    15 October 2015, by



    Robocar news roundup: Google’s hire, BMW/Mercedes carsharing, Apple clues, and more
    View image | gettyimages.com During a very busy September of travel, I let a number of important stories fall through the cracks. The volume of mainstream press articles on Robocars is immense. Mos...
    14 October 2015, by

    Volvo says it will accept “full liability” when its cars are operating autonomously
    In a statement released yesterday, Volvo said it would accept full liability whenever one of its cars is in autonomous mode....
    08 October 2015, by

    Robocars don’t need fancy dashboards and streets
    Yesterday I attended the “Silicon Valley reinvents the wheel” conference by the Western Automotive Journalists, which had a variety of talks and demonstrations of new car technology. Now that rob...
    07 October 2015, by

    What does the VW scandal mean for robocars?
    Most of you will have heard about the revelations that Volkswagen put software in their cars to deliberately cheat on emissions tests in the USA and possibly other places. It’s very bad for VW, but ...
    05 October 2015, by

    IEEE driverless car roundtable
    [focus07] Hear about the current state of the driverless vehicle industry from experts including IEEE Member Jeffrey Miller, IEEE Fellow Wei-Bin Zhang, Bernard Soriano, and Bryant Walker Smith. In ...
    30 September 2015, by

    Tricking LIDAR and robocars
    Security researcher Jonathan Petit claims to be able to hack the multi-thousand-dollar laser ranging - LIDAR - systems that self-driving cars rely on. How does he do it and is it as dangerous as it so...
    14 September 2015, by

    Former DARPA Program Manager Gill Pratt to direct Toyota’s new $50M robotics investment
    In a surprise move today, Toyota held a press conference (see video below) announcing a substantial investment in robotics and AI research to develop "advanced driving support" technology, with forme...
    04 September 2015, by

    New book by John Markoff explores common ground between humans and robots
    NY Times tech writer John Markoff traces the origins of the AI embedded in today’s virtual and physical assistants and suggests a humane way to proceed....
    24 August 2015, by

    Google Alphabet: Is it good for robocars?
    Everybody has heard about Google’s restructuring. In the new setup, Google X, which includes the self-driving car division, will be a subsidiary of the new Alphabet holding company, and no longer pa...
    14 August 2015, by

    Will robocars vastly increase battery life?
    We know electric cars are getting better and likely to get popular even when driven by humans. Tesla, at its core, is a battery technology company as much as it’s a car company, and it is sometimes ...
    21 July 2015, by

    Video: Robocar Q&A
    At Singularity U, we’re releasing a new video series answering questions about our future technology topics that come from Twitter. My segment is one of the first, and while regular readers of my bl...
    20 July 2015, by

    Robocar news roundup: Google doesn’t hit Delphi but does go to Austin; Vislab sold for $30M
    The press were all a-twitter about a report from Reuters that there had been a near miss between Delphi’s test car and one of Google’s, though it was quickly denied that anything happened....
    13 July 2015, by

    Powering the robocar: Ultracapacitors and other energy sources
    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...
    11 June 2015, by

    Robocar roundup: Google accidents, Baidu cars, startups and more
    Here’s a roundup of news stories in the field of robocars....
    11 June 2015, by

    Google to release monthly driving reports
    Google has started publicly disclosing details of accidents involving its self-driving cars....
    09 June 2015, by

    Automated vehicle crashes
      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...
    29 May 2015, by

    Why Tesla’s purported liability ‘fix’ is technically and legally questionable
    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” ...
    26 May 2015, by

    Robocar roundup: Google deploys nextgen cars on city streets; Mercedes Freightleiner tests in NV
    [clear] 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...
    19 May 2015, by

    Will motion sickness really be a barrier to self-driving cars?
    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 ...
    14 April 2015, by

    Delphi completes trans-continental drive, and Hyundai goes big
    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...
    08 April 2015, by

    “Anyone who focuses on tech alone hasn’t grasped how autonomous driving will change society”
    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....
    01 April 2015, by

    Delphi’s cross-country trip, and a raft of other robocar news
    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....
    31 March 2015, by

    Issues in regulating robocars, and the case for a light hand
    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...
    04 March 2015, by

    Uber price in LA approaches robocar cheap
    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....
    02 March 2015, by

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