robocar

Luminar unstealths their 1.5 micron LIDAR

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 15 Apr 2017

Luminar, a bay area startup, has revealed details on their new LIDAR. Unlike all other commercial offerings, this is a LIDAR using 1.5 micron infrared light. They hope to sell it for $1,000....

No, Detroit is not winning the robocar race

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 05 Apr 2017

A new report from Navigant Research includes the chart shown below, ranking various teams on the race to robocar deployment. It’s causing lots of press headlines about how Ford is the top company an...

California publishes robocar intervention reports: Google/Waymo vastly outpaces competition

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 08 Feb 2017

California published its summary of all the reports submitted by vendors testing robocars in the state. You can read the individual reports. They are interesting, but several other outlines have creat...

What are the right disability rules for robotaxis?

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 26 Dec 2016

Robocars are broadly going to be a huge boon for many people with disabilities, especially disabilities that make it difficult to drive or those that make it hard to get in and out of vehicles. Exist...

Oxbotica’s autonomous vehicle software learns its environment and how it changes over time

Kassie Perlongo 10 Oct 2016

Oxbotica, a UK technology company with a focus on mobile robotics and driverless vehicles, has created Selenium, an autonomous software system acting similar to a 'brain' for a vehicle. Selenium can...

Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux: Some expected, some strange

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 26 Jul 2016

Today, I want to look at some implications of Tesla’s Master Plan, Part Deux which caused some buzz this week. There was other news, of course, including the AUVSI/TRB meeting which I attended, and ...

How would a robocar handle an oncoming tsunami?

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 19 Apr 2016

Recently, a reddit user posted a short video of a lucky driver in Japan who was able to turn his car around just in time to escape the torrent of the tsunami....

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...

When do robocars become cheaper than standard cars? Automated Vehicle Symposium recap (Part 1)

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 24 Jul 2015

I’m in the Detroit area for the annual TRB/AUVSI Automated Vehicle Symposium. Those in Ann Arbor attended the opening of the new test track at the University of Michigan, but I was at a small event ...

Is Apple building a robocar? Maybe. Or maybe not.

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 05 Feb 2015

There is great buzz about some sensor-laden vehicles being driven around the USA, which have been discovered to be owned by Apple. The vehicles have cameras, LIDARs, and GPS antennas, and many are wo...