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    Automated Vehicles Symposium recap (Part 2)
      27 Jul 2015
    From small beginnings, over 800 people are here at the Ann Arbor AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicles symposium. Let’s summarize some of the news....

    Will robocars vastly increase battery life?
      21 Jul 2015
    We know electric cars are getting better and likely to get popular even when driven by humans. Tesla, at its core, is a battery technology company as much as it’s a car company, and it is sometimes ...

    Video: Robocar Q&A
      20 Jul 2015
    At Singularity U, we’re releasing a new video series answering questions about our future technology topics that come from Twitter. My segment is one of the first, and while regular readers of my bl...

    Powering the robocar: Ultracapacitors and other energy sources
      11 Jun 2015
    A reader recently asked about the synergies between robocars and ultracapacitors / supercapacitors. It turns out they are not what you would expect, and it teaches some of the surprising lessons of ro...

    The social car: Simplifying autonomous action with Thing Theory
    and   10 Jun 2015
    Automating vehicles simplifies operation for humans but also increases complexity. In order to negotiate a safe journey within a crowded transportation system, cars must communicate messages not only...

    Robocar roundup: Google deploys nextgen cars on city streets; Mercedes Freightleiner tests in NV
      19 May 2015
    [clear] 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...

    Will motion sickness really be a barrier to self-driving cars?
      14 Apr 2015
    Earlier this week I was sent some advance research from the U of Michigan about car sickness rates for car passengers. I found the research of interest, but wish it had covered some questions I think ...

    Delphi completes trans-continental drive, and Hyundai goes big
      08 Apr 2015
    Most recent robocar press has been about the Delphi drive from San Francisco to New York, which is now completed. Congratulations to the team. Few teams have tried to do such a long course that invo...

    “Anyone who focuses on tech alone hasn’t grasped how autonomous driving will change society”
      01 Apr 2015
    The way that consumers interact with and operate cars will transform most functions in commuting, travel, communications, car ownership, and many other as-yet unknown ways....

    Delphi’s cross-country trip, and a raft of other robocar news
      31 Mar 2015
    There has been a ton of robocar news in the last four weeks. Below is just a small subset of the now constant stream of news items and articles that appear about robocars....

    Issues in regulating robocars, and the case for a light hand
      04 Mar 2015
    All over the world, people (and governments) are debating about regulations for robocars. First for testing, and then for operation. It mostly began when Google encouraged the state of Nevada to write...

    Uber price in LA approaches robocar cheap
      02 Mar 2015
    I was recently considering the price of UberX in Los Angeles. It’s gotten disturbingly low, with a flag drop costing as little as $0.18 per minute / $0.90 per mile....

    Keep Calm and Carry Passengers: UK robocar projects level up
      13 Feb 2015
    The government-baked robocar projects in the UK are going full steam, with this press release from the UK government to accompany the unveiling of the prototype Lutz pod, which should ply the streets...

    Programming safety into self-driving cars
      06 Feb 2015
    For decades, researchers in artificial intelligence, or AI, worked on specialized problems, developing theoretical concepts and workable algorithms for various aspects of the field. Computer vision, p...

    Will robocars use V2V at all?
      03 Feb 2015
    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...

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

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

    Uber to collaborate with CMU on robocars
      03 Feb 2015
    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....

    UMich team works on perception and localization using cameras
      27 Jan 2015
    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)...

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

    Robocar parking
      19 Jan 2015
    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 ...

    Detroit Auto Show and more robocar news
      19 Jan 2015
    Robocar news continues after CES with announcements from the Detroit Auto Show (and a tiny amount from the TRB meeting.) Google doesn’t talk a lot about their car, so the address by Chris Urmson at...

    CES 2015: The ‘amazing’ autonomous Mercedes
      12 Jan 2015
    The unveiling of the long sleek Mercedes Benz F 015 at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES 2015) in Las Vegas was quite something. It was amazing. Mercedes told us that they have been developing autonom...

    Robocars at CES: BMW
      09 Jan 2015
    Day 3 at CES started with a visit to BMW’s demo. They were mostly test driving new cars like the i3 and M series cars, but for a demo, they made the i3 deliver itself along a planned corridor. It wa...

    Robocars at CES: Supervised traffic jam assist
      08 Jan 2015
    After a short day looking at robocars at CES, a more full day was full of the usual equipment — cameras, TVs, audio and the like and visits to several car booths....

    Robocars at CES: Mercedes concept
      07 Jan 2015
    There is reasonable volume of robocar related stuff to see here at CES. I just had a few hours today, and went to see the much touted Mercedes F105 “Luxury in Motion.” This is a concept, and no...

    Robocars driving when the map is wrong
      02 Jan 2015
    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...

    Cars in the UK, China, LA, CES and here : Robocar news update
      01 Jan 2015
    I see new articles on robocars in the press every day now, though most don’t say a lot new. Here, however, are some of the recent meaningful stories from the last month or two while I’ve been on t...

    Uber’s legal battles and robocars
      26 Dec 2014
    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...

    Future driving: Business models for robocars
      11 Dec 2014
    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...
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    Mobility Transformation Facility, with Edwin Olson

      28 Nov 2014
    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...

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

    SMART begins live public robocar tests in Singapore today
      23 Oct 2014
    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...

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

    Robocars: A natural fit for retirement communities
      18 Oct 2014
    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...

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

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