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What’s new in robotics this week? Amazon’s robot champion
Emmet Cole and Robotiq Inc.
08 Jul 2016
Amazon's robot champion; Bipedal robot's testing terrain; Robots thinking like predators; Major flaw in Turing Test; Google car is cyclist-aware and more. Find out what's happening in our robotics un...
Google develops a Chrysler minivan
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
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...
Why Google’s crash is a good thing
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
04 Mar 2016
Reports released reveal that one of Google’s Gen-2 vehicles (the Lexus) has a fender-bender (with a bus) with some responsibility assigned to the system. This is the first crash of this type — all...
Google’s detailed intervention rates reveal the real unsolved problem of robocars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
15 Jan 2016
Hot on the heels of my CES Report is the release of the latest article from Chris Urmson on The View from the Front Seat of the Google Car. Chris heads engineering on the project (and until recently l...
California’s new DMV regulations may kill the state’s robocar lead
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
18 Dec 2015
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...
No, a Google car was not ticketed for going too slow (and other robocar stories)
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
23 Nov 2015
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...
Why Tesla’s Autopilot and Google’s car are entirely different animals
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
28 Oct 2015
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...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
Under pressure, Google may slow rollout of driverless car technology
CIS Blog
22 Jul 2013
Google is under pressure from people inside and outside the company to crimp some features until society gets more used to automated cars.
Read more: Steve Rosenbush, Wall Street...
Disruptions: How driverless cars could reshape cities | New York Times
CIS Blog
17 Jul 2013
By now, seeing one of Google’s experimental, driverless cars zipping down Silicon Valley’s Highway 101, or parking itself on a San Francisco street, is not all that unusual. Indeed, as automakers...
Google’s driverless future: Will self-piloting vehicles rob us of our privacy and autonomy? | Reason.com
Hallie Siegel
14 May 2013
“Our cars have sensors with which they magically can see everything around them,” Google engineer Sebastian Thrun exclaimed in a 2011 TED talk. And yet no one ran out of the room screaming. That...
Correcting misconceptions about autonomous vehicles | Openmarket.org
CIS Blog
10 May 2013
In the June issue of Reason, one of my favorite publications, Greg Beato has an article discussing the public policy implications of autonomous vehicles, such as Google’s Self-Driving Car. While ...
