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    Google Alphabet: Is it good for robocars?
    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...
    14 August 2015, by

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

    When do robocars become cheaper than standard cars? Automated Vehicle Symposium recap (Part 1)
    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 ...
    24 July 2015, by

    Will robocars vastly increase battery life?
    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 ...
    21 July 2015, by

    Video: Robocar Q&A
    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...
    20 July 2015, by

    Robocar news roundup: Google doesn’t hit Delphi but does go to Austin; Vislab sold for $30M
    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....
    13 July 2015, by



    As Google cars roll out, Deere reminds us of its thousands of self-driving tractors
    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...
    28 June 2015, by

    Powering the robocar: Ultracapacitors and other energy sources
    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...
    11 June 2015, by

    Robocar roundup: Google accidents, Baidu cars, startups and more
    Here’s a roundup of news stories in the field of robocars....
    11 June 2015, by

    The social car: Simplifying autonomous action with Thing Theory
    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...
    10 June 2015, by and

    Google to release monthly driving reports
    Google has started publicly disclosing details of accidents involving its self-driving cars....
    09 June 2015, by

    Automated vehicle crashes
      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...
    29 May 2015, by

    Why Tesla’s purported liability ‘fix’ is technically and legally questionable
    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” ...
    26 May 2015, by

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

    Will motion sickness really be a barrier to self-driving cars?
    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 ...
    14 April 2015, by

    Delphi completes trans-continental drive, and Hyundai goes big
    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...
    08 April 2015, by

    “Anyone who focuses on tech alone hasn’t grasped how autonomous driving will change society”
    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....
    01 April 2015, by

    Delphi’s cross-country trip, and a raft of other robocar news
    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....
    31 March 2015, by

    Issues in regulating robocars, and the case for a light hand
    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...
    04 March 2015, by

    Uber price in LA approaches robocar cheap
    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....
    02 March 2015, by
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    Sensors for Autonomous Driving, with Christoph Stiller

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Christoph Stiller from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Stiller speaks about the sensors required for various level of autonomous driving, as well as the...
    20 February 2015, by

    Automated Driving Fail
    Robot 'advances' in Automated Driving....
    06 February 2015, by

    Programming safety into self-driving cars
    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...
    06 February 2015, by

    Is Apple building a robocar? Maybe. Or maybe not.
    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...
    05 February 2015, by

    Will robocars use V2V at all?
    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...
    03 February 2015, by

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

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

    Google is developing its own Uber competitor | Bloomberg Business
    Google Ventures, the search giant's venture capital arm, invested $258 million in Uber in August 2013. It was Google Ventures' largest investment deal ever, and the company put more money into Uber...
    03 February 2015, by

    Uber to collaborate with CMU on robocars
    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....
    03 February 2015, by

    UMich team works on perception and localization using cameras
    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)...
    27 January 2015, by

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