c-Automotive

SAE defines six levels of driving automation

Bryant Walker Smith 07 Feb 2014

Photo: Osvaldo Gago SAE International's On-Road Automated Vehicle Standards Committee, on which I serve along with experts from industry and government, has released an information report defini...

Human error as a cause of vehicle crashes

Bryant Walker Smith 07 Feb 2014

Source: Wonderlane. Some ninety percent of motor vehicle crashes are caused at least in part by human error. This intuitive claim is a fine place to start discussions about the safety potenti...

The driverless city | Project Syndicate

Hallie Siegel 27 Jan 2014

A recent paper by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s SMART Future Mobility team shows that the mobility demand of a city like Singapore – potentially host to the world’s first publicly-...

Who gets a ticket when there’s no one behind the wheel? | Marketplace

CIS Blog 28 Aug 2013

Bryant Walker Smith, fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, discusses the new legal issues presented by having cars with no drivers. See more: Marketplace...

Six questions states need to ask about self-driving cars | Governing

CIS Blog 13 Aug 2013

A growing number of states are taking up legislation that addresses self-driving vehicles in an effort to make it easier for researchers to explore the technology. But most of the legislation deals...

The ethics of saving lives with autonomous cars are far murkier than you think | Wired

CIS Blog 30 Jul 2013

If you don’t listen to Google’s robot car, it will yell at you. I’m not kidding: I learned that on my test-drive at a Stanford conference on vehicle automation a couple weeks ago. The ...

Smart vehicles are here: Can government keep pace? | NY Times Energy for Tomorrow Conference

CIS Blog 29 Apr 2013

The pressures are building for safer and smarter vehicles on our roads, raising questions about the national, state and local policies that will emerge. Several states are already early adopters of le...

The logic behind bailing out the auto industry

Frank Tobe 27 Feb 2012

Pres. Obama, speaking at Carnegie Mellon University, June 24, 2011 "Today, I'm calling for all of us to come together- private sector, industry, universities, and the government - to spark a re...

Google’ self-driving cars have racked up 140,000 driverless miles on California roads

Frank Tobe 31 Oct 2010

... The only accident was when one Google car was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light. ... The cars used LIDAR, a video camera, four standard automotive radar sensors and a position estimatin...