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Tesla sends highway cruise update to recent Model S owners

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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

MIT News 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

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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...

Volvo says it will accept “full liability” when its cars are operating autonomously

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 08 Oct 2015

In a statement released yesterday, Volvo said it would accept full liability whenever one of its cars is in autonomous mode....

Robocars don’t need fancy dashboards and streets

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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?

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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

CIS Blog 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

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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...

Former DARPA Program Manager Gill Pratt to direct Toyota’s new $50M robotics investment

Ioannis K. Erripis 04 Sep 2015

In a surprise move today, Toyota held a press conference (see video below) announcing a substantial investment in robotics and AI research to develop "advanced driving support" technology, with forme...

Peloton Technology gets $17M for truck platooning tech

Frank Tobe 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...

New book by John Markoff explores common ground between humans and robots

Frank Tobe 24 Aug 2015

NY Times tech writer John Markoff traces the origins of the AI embedded in today’s virtual and physical assistants and suggests a humane way to proceed....

194 Chinese robot companies

Frank Tobe 18 Aug 2015

In China, the robotics industry is booming. Companies are deploying thousands of robots in all types of factories, particularly in the auto industry. Chinese companies that manufacture robots and the...

Google Alphabet: Is it good for robocars?

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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...

Automated Vehicles Symposium recap (Part 2)

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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....

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 ...

Will robocars vastly increase battery life?

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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...

Robocar news roundup: Google doesn’t hit Delphi but does go to Austin; Vislab sold for $30M

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 13 Jul 2015

The press were all a-twitter about a report from Reuters that there had been a near miss between Delphi’s test car and one of Google’s, though it was quickly denied that anything happened....

As Google cars roll out, Deere reminds us of its thousands of self-driving tractors

Frank Tobe 28 Jun 2015

Google is putting 25 new self-driving cars onto the streets of Mountain View, California, but agricultural equipment manufacturer John Deere reminds us that it already has tens of thousands of self-dr...

Powering the robocar: Ultracapacitors and other energy sources

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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...

Robocar roundup: Google accidents, Baidu cars, startups and more

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 11 Jun 2015

Here’s a roundup of news stories in the field of robocars....

The social car: Simplifying autonomous action with Thing Theory

Sally Applin and Michael Fischer 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...

Google to release monthly driving reports

Adriana Hamacher 09 Jun 2015

Google has started publicly disclosing details of accidents involving its self-driving cars....

Automated vehicle crashes

Bryant Walker Smith 29 May 2015

Earlier this month, the Associated Press reported on several past crashes involving automated vehicles. (Per SAE Standard J3016, I use the term "automated vehicle" instead of "autonomous veh...

Why Tesla’s purported liability ‘fix’ is technically and legally questionable

Bryant Walker Smith 26 May 2015

An interesting article in last week’s Wall Street Journal spawned a series of unfortunate headlines (in a variety of publications) suggesting that Tesla had somehow “solved” the “problem” ...

Robocar roundup: Google deploys nextgen cars on city streets; Mercedes Freightleiner tests in NV

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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?

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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”

Frank Tobe 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

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 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....

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