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Robocar news: UK Legalization, MobilEye IPO, Baidu, new LIDAR and more

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 05 Aug 2014

A whole raft of recent robocar news....

Reader poll: Should an autonomous car be able to drive w/o a human passenger?

Open Roboethics Initiative 05 Aug 2014

A couple of months ago, we asked our readers whether three different unlicensed groups of individuals should be able to ride in autonomous cars alone. The individuals were: a child under the legal dr...

Readers split on whether they will miss driving their non-autonomous car

Open Roboethics Initiative 04 Aug 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-MGQqaY3eo Driving has become an integral component of our daily lives, especially in developed countries. Cars are not just a means for us to get from point A to p...

See what it’s like to go off-road inside the Marines’ self-driving vehicle | The Verge

Hallie Siegel 28 Jul 2014

http://youtu.be/sFkj36JJ8mk The US military has been working on self-driving vehicles of its own for several years now, and earlier this month a video was published showing just what it's...

The two cultures of robocars

Brad Templeton, Robocars.com 24 Jul 2014

I have many more comments pending on my observations from the recent AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicles Symposium, but for today I would like to put forward an observation I made about two broad schools of ...

When fully autonomous cars are the norm, will you miss driving?

Open Roboethics Initiative 22 Jul 2014

A few weeks ago, one of our readers, Javier Lopez, submitted a number of questions to the ORi team. He brought up many interesting points, and we won’t attempt to cover them all in one poll. But on...

Autonomous car poll: Participants choose random chance over informed decision

Open Roboethics Initiative 21 Jul 2014

Given a choice between crashing into a motorcyclist wearing a helmet vs. a motorcyclist who isn’t wearing one, which one should an autonomous car be programmed to crash into? What about the choice b...

Deploying automated vehicles

Bryant Walker Smith 16 Jul 2014

In 2012, the Nevada DMV issued the first license to test autonomous vehicles on public roads in the US. The red license plates are only for autonomous test vehicles and are meant to make the cars easi...

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Cruise, with Kyle Vogt

Audrow Nash 11 Jul 2014

In this episode, we speak with Kyle Vogt, the CEO of Cruise. His company recently joined the “driverless revolution” with their release of RP-1. This system is a highway autopilot that can be ins...

Reader poll: How should an autonomous car optimize crashes?

Open Roboethics Initiative 08 Jul 2014

Photo by Roland Dobbins, Wikimedia A couple of months ago Dr. Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, wrote an article on autonomous...

How do you want to interface with your autonomous car? Poll results

Open Roboethics Initiative 07 Jul 2014

Those of you who watched the 80’s TV series “Knight Rider” might remember the dialogue between Michael Knight and its super-car, KITT. Some of you might be more familiar with scenes between “J...

Mercedes-Benz is teaching autonomous cars how to speak | Daimler Media

Hallie Siegel 07 Jul 2014

Alexander Mankowsky, a futurologist at Daimler AG: "We see the car that drives itself - the autonomous robot - embedded in the overall picture of future mobility, with humans playing the main role in ...

Don’t laugh; the new Google prototype car has implications for your business

Paul Godsmark 30 Jun 2014

It may look amusing and easily dismissed as a novelty prototype many years from production, but take a good look at a technology that in a few short years is going to transform your life and have majo...

My (autonomous) car, my safety: Results from our reader poll

Open Roboethics Initiative 30 Jun 2014

You are travelling along a single lane mountain road in an autonomous car that is approaching a narrow tunnel. You are the only passenger of the car....

Autonomous vehicles: A powerful tool if you can get the problem right

Peter Norton 25 Jun 2014

“When the American people, through their Congress, voted for a twenty-six-billion-dollar highway program, the most charitable thing to assume is that they hadn’t the faintest notion of what they w...

Reader poll: How would you like to interface with your autonomous car?

Open Roboethics Initiative 24 Jun 2014

We interact with gadgets and devices everyday … some have blinking lights, some play sounds, and some can even decipher our voice commands. When it comes to interfacing with a device as exciting an...

If death by autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die? Reader poll results

Open Roboethics Initiative 23 Jun 2014

Image credit: Craig Berry Life and death decisions make interesting thought experiments. When you throw an autonomous car into the mix, things get even more interesting....

Automated Driving: Upcoming Change in Perspective?

Jim Haas 16 Jun 2014

While Nate doesn't appear in today's comic, you can learn more about Nate's wacky life at his Website....

An ethical dilemma: When robot cars must kill, who should pick the victim?

Jason Millar 11 Jun 2014

Image credit: Craig Berry We are moving closer to having driverless cars on roads everywhere, and naturally, people are starting to wonder what kinds of ethical challenges driverless cars will pose. ...

The car in your driveway may be more autonomous than you think

Ioannis K. Erripis 11 Jun 2014

[Jaguar XF, ESC test by EuroNCAP - photo: EuroNCAP ] Did you know that the majority of the cars we buy and drive today are able to act by themselves and maneuver themselves out of an accident? They...

Reader poll: If a death by an autonomous car is unavoidable, who should die?

Open Roboethics Initiative 10 Jun 2014

Image source: Karora via Wikipedia. There may be times when an accident or a death is unavoidable while an autonomous car is controlling the wheel. What should an autonomous car do when such ...

Elon Musk wants to make a flying car | The Independent

Hallie Siegel 09 Jun 2014

"Maybe we'll make a flying car, just for fun," said Elon Musk. From any other businessman, such a statement would be a joke. But the billionaire, 42, who has poured the millions he made from the sal...

Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed? Results from our reader poll

Open Roboethics Initiative 09 Jun 2014

Our previous poll, which asked (among other questions) whether kids should be allowed to ride in autonomous vehicles by themselves, revealed that responsibility is a key issue for most people. Are we ...

How do self-driving cars work?

Shima Rayej 03 Jun 2014

Nissan’s autonomous car prototype - 2013, photo:Nissan Global Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, recently announced that the car manufacturer will produce self-driving cars within three years. Nissan has announ...

Automated Driving – Something Missing

Jim Haas 29 May 2014

Learn more about Nate's wacky life at his Website....

Pure autonomy: Google’s new purpose-built self driving car

Ioannis K. Erripis 28 May 2014

Google completed a major step in its long and extensive self-driving cars project by presenting its first purpose-built autonomous car, which is designed from scratch for its role and is not a modifie...

Reader Poll: Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed?

Open Roboethics Initiative 27 May 2014

We conducted two polls last month in collaboration with the Open Roboethics initiative to get a sense of what people think about autonomous cars. Our polls started some interesting discussions arou...

Kids with wheels: Should the unlicensed be allowed to ‘drive’ autonomous cars?

Open Roboethics Initiative 26 May 2014

Share your opinion and take our next reader poll: Should autonomous cars be allowed to speed?Reader poll results: Earlier this month, when we asked people about your general thoughts on autonomous c...

The autonomous driving r/evolution: Call to contribute to Robohub Focus

Hallie Siegel 21 May 2014

While a city full of autonomous taxis may seem part of a distant future, sophisticated driver-assistance systems such as ABS, cruise-control, lane-keeping and self-parking are already a reality in t...

Reader poll: Should the unlicensed be allowed to ‘drive’ an autonomous car?

Open Roboethics Initiative 13 May 2014

Image from Wikimedia Commons Two weeks ago we published our first reader poll in collaboration with the Open Roboethics initiative in order to find out more about what people think about autono...

What do people think about autonomous cars? Results from our reader poll

Open Roboethics Initiative 12 May 2014

What do people think are the main advantages of owning an autonomous car? Do people think autonomous cars should be easily identifiable? How much money are people willing to pay for an autonomous car ...

Google’s self-driving car masters city streets | Evan Ackerman on Discovery News

Hallie Siegel 30 Apr 2014

The cars have surpassed 700,000 autonomous accident-free miles (around 1.13 million kilometers), and they're learning how to safely navigate through the complex urban jungle of city streets. Soon enou...

Reader poll: What do you think about autonomous cars?

Open Roboethics Initiative 29 Apr 2014

Today we drive our cars. In the future they’ll do the driving. Autonomous cars are no longer a far-off futuristic dream, but something that we can expect to see on the road within the next dec...

Transportation 2025 and beyond: Discussion with Rodney Slater

CIS Blog 09 Apr 2014

In this discussion moderated by Stanford's Bryant Walker Smith, the Honorable Rodney Slater talks about the opportunities, challenges and best pathways for successful transportation innovation and pol...

The practical path to driverless cars | The Atlantic Cities

CIS Blog 01 Apr 2014

"Google has a lot of data from its fleet," says Bryant Walker Smith, resident fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, who's written about the legality of autonomous cars....

Driven to gridlock: Driverless cars | CBS Los Angeles