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    Sensors for Autonomous Driving, with Christoph Stiller

    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...
    20 February 2015, by

    Automated Driving Fail
    Robot 'advances' in Automated Driving....
    06 February 2015, by

    Will robocars use V2V at all?
    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...
    03 February 2015, by

    Uber Chases Google in self-driving cars with Carnegie Mellon deal | WSJ
    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...
    03 February 2015, by

    No, Google and Uber aren’t going to war over self-driving cars | The Verge
    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...
    03 February 2015, by

    Google is developing its own Uber competitor | Bloomberg Business
    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...
    03 February 2015, by



    Uber to collaborate with CMU on robocars
    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....
    03 February 2015, by

    UMich team works on perception and localization using cameras
    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)...
    27 January 2015, by

    Might the first, supervised robocars be… well… boring?
    Let me confess a secret fear. I suspect that the first “autopilot” functions on cars are going to be a bit boring....
    23 January 2015, by

    Robocar parking
    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 ...
    19 January 2015, by

    Robocars driving when the map is wrong
    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...
    02 January 2015, by

    Uber’s legal battles and robocars
    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...
    26 December 2014, by

    Google presents their actual autonomous car test prototype
    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....
    22 December 2014, by

    Future driving: Business models for robocars
    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...
    11 December 2014, by
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    170

    podcast

    Mobility Transformation Facility, with Edwin Olson

    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...
    28 November 2014, by

    Your car may be programmed to kill you — and 9 more fun facts about self-driving vehicles | Yahoo Tech
    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’...
    10 November 2014, by

    SMART begins live public robocar tests in Singapore today
    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...
    23 October 2014, by

    Tesla’s auto lane-changing, Audi’s self-driving race car and other recent announcements
    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...
    22 October 2014, by

    Michigan latest state to ban direct Tesla sales | The Verge
    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...
    22 October 2014, by

    Robocars: A natural fit for retirement communities
    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...
    18 October 2014, by

    Move over, humans, the robocars are coming | Washington Post
    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...
    14 October 2014, by

    Self-driving car test sites
    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 ...
    08 October 2014, by

    Reader poll: Will autonomous cars create more jobs than they displace?
    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...
    03 September 2014, by

    Rain on Google’s self-driving car parade
    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....
    02 September 2014, by

    Crash optimization
    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...
    27 August 2014, by

    The secrets Google wanted to keep about its self-driving cars | Quartz
    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...
    25 August 2014, by

    The Neighbourhood Elevator and a new vision of urban density | Robocars
    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 ...
    05 August 2014, by

    Robocars love the draft | Automaton
    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 ...
    05 August 2014, by

    Robocar news: UK Legalization, MobilEye IPO, Baidu, new LIDAR and more
    A whole raft of recent robocar news....
    05 August 2014, by

    See what it’s like to go off-road inside the Marines’ self-driving vehicle | The Verge
    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...
    28 July 2014, by

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