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Crash optimization
Jim Haas
27 Aug 2014
Busy times, but I finally managed to complete my comic dealing with all of the great polls about Automated Driving here on Robohub. If you enjoy reading Nate, check out his other wacky adventures at N...
The secrets Google wanted to keep about its self-driving cars | Quartz
Ioannis K. Erripis
25 Aug 2014
Google’s experimental self-driving cars have traveled more than 700,000 miles on California’s roads with nothing more serious than a fender bender, and that one while a human was...
The Neighbourhood Elevator and a new vision of urban density | Robocars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
05 Aug 2014
I’ve been musing more on the future of the city under the robocar, and many visions suggest we’ll have more sprawl. Earlier I have written visions of Robocar Oriented Development and outlined all ...
Robocars love the draft | Automaton
Hallie Siegel
05 Aug 2014
If you are willing to leave much of the driving in the hands of the guy behind the steering wheel, and all you want is to manage tight spacing for efficient drafting, then the solution to the problem ...
Robocar news: UK Legalization, MobilEye IPO, Baidu, new LIDAR and more
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
05 Aug 2014
A whole raft of recent robocar news....
See what it’s like to go off-road inside the Marines’ self-driving vehicle | The Verge
Hallie Siegel
28 Jul 2014
http://youtu.be/sFkj36JJ8mk
The US military has been working on self-driving vehicles of its own for several years now, and earlier this month a video was published showing just what it's...
The two cultures of robocars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
24 Jul 2014
I have many more comments pending on my observations from the recent AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicles Symposium, but for today I would like to put forward an observation I made about two broad schools of ...
Deploying automated vehicles
Bryant Walker Smith
16 Jul 2014
In 2012, the Nevada DMV issued the first license to test autonomous vehicles on public roads in the US. The red license plates are only for autonomous test vehicles and are meant to make the cars easi...
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Cruise, with Kyle Vogt
Audrow Nash
11 Jul 2014
In this episode, we speak with Kyle Vogt, the CEO of Cruise. His company recently joined the “driverless revolution” with their release of RP-1. This system is a highway autopilot that can be ins...
Mercedes-Benz is teaching autonomous cars how to speak | Daimler Media
Hallie Siegel
07 Jul 2014
Alexander Mankowsky, a futurologist at Daimler AG: "We see the car that drives itself - the autonomous robot - embedded in the overall picture of future mobility, with humans playing the main role in ...
Don’t laugh; the new Google prototype car has implications for your business
Paul Godsmark
30 Jun 2014
It may look amusing and easily dismissed as a novelty prototype many years from production, but take a good look at a technology that in a few short years is going to transform your life and have majo...
Automated Driving: Upcoming Change in Perspective?
Jim Haas
16 Jun 2014
While Nate doesn't appear in today's comic, you can learn more about Nate's wacky life at his Website....
The car in your driveway may be more autonomous than you think
Ioannis K. Erripis
11 Jun 2014
[Jaguar XF, ESC test by EuroNCAP - photo: EuroNCAP ]
Did you know that the majority of the cars we buy and drive today are able to act by themselves and maneuver themselves out of an accident? They...
Elon Musk wants to make a flying car | The Independent
Hallie Siegel
09 Jun 2014
"Maybe we'll make a flying car, just for fun," said Elon Musk. From any other businessman, such a statement would be a joke. But the billionaire, 42, who has poured the millions he made from the sal...
How do self-driving cars work?
Shima Rayej
03 Jun 2014
Nissan’s autonomous car prototype - 2013, photo:Nissan Global
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, recently announced that the car manufacturer will produce self-driving cars within three years. Nissan has announ...
Automated Driving – Something Missing
Jim Haas
29 May 2014
Learn more about Nate's wacky life at his Website....
Pure autonomy: Google’s new purpose-built self driving car
Ioannis K. Erripis
28 May 2014
Google completed a major step in its long and extensive self-driving cars project by presenting its first purpose-built autonomous car, which is designed from scratch for its role and is not a modifie...
The autonomous driving r/evolution: Call to contribute to Robohub Focus
Hallie Siegel
21 May 2014
While a city full of autonomous taxis may seem part of a distant future, sophisticated driver-assistance systems such as ABS, cruise-control, lane-keeping and self-parking are already a reality in t...
Google’s self-driving car masters city streets | Evan Ackerman on Discovery News
Hallie Siegel
30 Apr 2014
The cars have surpassed 700,000 autonomous accident-free miles (around 1.13 million kilometers), and they're learning how to safely navigate through the complex urban jungle of city streets. Soon enou...
The practical path to driverless cars | The Atlantic Cities
CIS Blog
01 Apr 2014
"Google has a lot of data from its fleet," says Bryant Walker Smith, resident fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, who's written about the legality of autonomous cars....
SAE defines six levels of driving automation
Bryant Walker Smith
07 Feb 2014
Photo: Osvaldo Gago
SAE International's On-Road Automated Vehicle Standards Committee, on which I serve along with experts from industry and government, has released an information report defini...
Human error as a cause of vehicle crashes
Bryant Walker Smith
07 Feb 2014
Source: Wonderlane.
Some ninety percent of motor vehicle crashes are caused at least in part by human error. This intuitive claim is a fine place to start discussions about the safety potenti...
The driverless city | Project Syndicate
Hallie Siegel
27 Jan 2014
A recent paper by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s SMART Future Mobility team shows that the mobility demand of a city like Singapore – potentially host to the world’s first publicly-...
Smart vehicles are here: Can government keep pace? | NY Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference
CIS Blog
29 Apr 2013
The pressures are building for safer and smarter vehicles on our roads, raising questions about the national, state and local policies that will emerge. Several states are already early adopters of le...
The logic behind bailing out the auto industry
Frank Tobe
27 Feb 2012
Pres. Obama, speaking at Carnegie Mellon University, June 24, 2011
"Today, I'm calling for all of us to come together- private sector, industry, universities, and the government - to spark a re...
Google’ self-driving cars have racked up 140,000 driverless miles on California roads
Frank Tobe
31 Oct 2010
... The only accident was when one Google car was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light.
... The cars used LIDAR, a video camera, four standard automotive radar sensors and a position estimatin...
