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    New laissez-faire robocar rules may arise
      19 Jun 2017
    While very few details have come out, Reuters reports that new proposed congressional bills on self-driving cars will reverse many of the provisions I critiqued in the NHTSA regulations last year....

    Robocar news: Waymo starts pilot in Phoenix, Apple car gets more real, and the flying car takes off
      26 Apr 2017
    Waymo (Google) has announced a pilot project in Phoenix offering a full ride service in their new minivans. Members of the public can sign up — the link is sure to be overwhelmed with applicants, bu...

    Luminar unstealths their 1.5 micron LIDAR
      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....

    LIDAR (lasers) and cameras together: Which is more important?
      29 Mar 2017
    Recently we’ve seen a series of startups arise hoping to make robocars with just computer vision, along with radar. That includes recently unstealthed AutoX, the off-again, on again efforts of comma...

    Should California electrify Caltrain or invest in robocars?
      20 Feb 2017
    [Editor's note: According to a recent article on SFGate, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has put the brakes on $647 million for Caltrain to go electric. The delay may kill the project entirely.]...

    Flying cars are coming, what will they mean?
      27 Jan 2017
    Earlier I posted my gallery of CES gadgets and included a photo of the eHang 184 from China, a “personal drone” able, in theory, to carry a person up to 100kg. Whether the eHang is real or not...

    NHTSA ODI report exonerates Tesla in fatal crash
      20 Jan 2017
    NHTSA released the report from their Office of Defects Investigation on the fatal Tesla crash in Florida last spring. It’s a report that is surprisingly favorable to Tesla. So much so that even I am...

    CES 2017, part one: Robocar technology and concept cars
      17 Jan 2017
    CES is the big event for major car makers to show off robocar technology. Most of the north hall, and a giant parking lot next to it, were devoted to car technology and self-driving demos....

    Robocar news: Comma One goes open source, creating simulations for robocars in New Zealand earthquakes
      02 Dec 2016
    There have been few postings this month, as I took the time to enjoy a holiday in New Zealand around speaking at the SingularityU New Zealand summit in Christchurch. The night before the summit, we en...

    Breaking down robotaxi economics
      14 Sep 2016
    The vision of many of us for robocars is a world of less private car ownership and more use of robotaxis — on-demand ride service in a robocar. That’s what companies like Uber clearly are pushing ...

    Robocar platooning, or just carpool?
      12 Aug 2016
    At the recent AUVSI/TRB symposium, a popular research topic was platooning for robocars and trucks. Platooning is perhaps the oldest practical proposal when it comes to car automation because you can ...

    Carpool apps are on the rise, let’s make transfer points and roads to help
      15 Jul 2016
    The cell phone ride hail apps like Uber and Lyft are now reporting great success with actual ride-sharing, under the names UberPool, LyftLines and Lyft Carpool. In addition, a whole new raft of apps t...

    Understanding the massive gulf between the Tesla Autopilot and a real robocar, in light of the crash
      11 Jul 2016
    Brad Templeton describes Tesla’s Autopilot as a 'distant cousin of a real robocar' that primarily uses a MobilEye EyeQ3 camera combined with radars and ultrasonic sensors. Unlike robocar sensors, T...

    Designing simple, cheap cars of the future
      17 Jun 2016
    What does that car of the future look like? There is no one answer; in this world, the car that is sent to pick you up can be tailored for your trip. The more people traveling, the bigger the car. If ...

    The coming nightmare for the car industry
      11 May 2016
    I have often written on the challenge facing existing automakers in the world of robocars. They need to learn to completely switch their way of thinking in a world of mobility on demand, and not all o...

    Startup bringing driverless taxi service to Singapore
      27 Mar 2016
    An exciting “driverless race” is underway among tech giants the United States: In recent months, Google, Uber, and Tesla have made headlines for developing self-driving taxis for big cities....

    Calculating why we should make a lot more robocars
      24 Mar 2016
    I frequently read that people claim one effect of robocars will be car share (when they work as taxis) and fewer cars being made (because most cars stay idle 95% of the time) — which is good news ...

    Could shallow underpasses be express tunnels for small robocars?
      09 Feb 2016
    I recently read a report of a plan for a new type of intersection being developed in Malaysia and I felt it had some interesting applications for robocars....

    Could robotaxis be the answer to electric car depreciation?
      21 Jan 2016
    I’ve been electric car shopping, but one thing has stood out as a big concern. Many electric cars are depreciating fast, and it may get even faster. I think part of this is due to the fact that elec...

    US feds propose $4B investment in robocars, seek unified regulatory policy
      18 Jan 2016
    NHTSA, the federal car safety agency, has been talking about getting into the robocar game for a while, and now declares it wants more involvement with two important details: Unlike California, th...

    Google’s detailed intervention rates reveal the real unsolved problem of robocars
      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...

    Robocar news from CES 2016
      13 Jan 2016
    I’m back from CES 2016 with a raft of robocar news, some of which was reported before the show. Almost everybody in the robocar space had something to say — even if it was only to have something...

    Two New Year’s resolutions for developers of automated vehicles
      12 Jan 2016
    In the spirit of the New Year, and especially in the wake of California's draft rules for the (theoretical) operation of automated motor vehicles, I offer two resolutions for any serious developer of ...

    The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars
      30 Dec 2015
    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. ...

    California’s new DMV regulations may kill the state’s robocar lead
      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)
      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
      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...

    Tesla sends highway cruise update to recent Model S owners
      16 Oct 2015
    Though it's been anticipated for a few months now, Tesla announced yesterday the release of their highway cruise update for Model S cars from the last year....

    Should cars be fully driverless? No, says MIT engineer and historian David Mindell
      15 Oct 2015
    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...

    Robocar news roundup: Google’s hire, BMW/Mercedes carsharing, Apple clues, and more
      14 Oct 2015
    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...

    Robocars don’t need fancy dashboards and streets
      07 Oct 2015
    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...

    What does the VW scandal mean for robocars?
      05 Oct 2015
    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 ...

    IEEE driverless car roundtable
      30 Sep 2015
    [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 ...

    Tricking LIDAR and robocars
      14 Sep 2015
    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...

    Peloton Technology gets $17M for truck platooning tech
      01 Sep 2015
    Peloton Technology, a Silicon Valley startup providing truck platooning technology, got $17 million from strategic investors after receiving $16M this April. Denso Intl. was the lead investor in both...

    Google Alphabet: Is it good for robocars?
      14 Aug 2015
    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...

     
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