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Robots and humans
By Joann Muller 1 big thing: When robots and human drivers collide Illustration: Rebecca Zisser/Axios Self-driving cars won’t be here anytime soon, which means partially automated vehicles will have to coexist with traditional cars for many years. That could get expensive. The big picture: New cars are safer than ever thanks to crash avoidance technologies like automatic emergency braking and lane departure warning. But all the safety gizmos in the world can’t prevent other, less-equipped cars from crashing into...
read more11 companies propose guiding principles for self-driving vehicles
KYLE WIGGERS@KYLE_L_WIGGERS JULY 2, 2019 7:00 AM This morning, a coalition of 11 companies — Aptiv, Audi, Baidu, BMW, Continental, Daimler, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Here, Infineon, Intel, and Volkswagen — published a whitepaper (“Safety First For Automated Driving”) describing a framework for the development, testing, and validation of “safe” autonomous vehicles. The members claim it’s the broadest representation across the industry to date, and they say that the report — which runs 146 pages — is the largest to offer “clear traceability”...
read moreApple’s Latest Acquisition Shows Self-Driving Cars Are in the Doldrums of Disappointment
×By DAVID Z. MORRIS June 27, 2019 Apple’s recent acquisition of autonomous vehicle startup Drive.ai throws a monkey wrench into the theory that it had backed away from an existing self-driving car initiative, known as Project Titan. Early this year, Apple laid off 190 Project Titan staffers, including more than 100 engineers. But now Apple is bring on more engineers from Drive.ai, along with the startup’s fleet of self-driving orange vans and, presumably, its patents and other intellectual property. On that basis, the...
read moreAre We Programming Killer Cars? The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles
Self-driving cars have become technologically feasible. The question now is: are they ethically feasible? By Ariella Brown June 27th, 2019 Over the past several years, more and more autonomous features have been embedded in cars. And just a couple of months back, Tesla released the following video in which it boasted about having achieved “Full Self-Driving.” A Techopedia article reported that even earlier Tesla cars contained “the necessary hardware for autonomous driving,” though activating the ability depended on a...
read moreDemand in doubt for fully autonomous cars
BY TAKAMITSU SAWA KIZUGAWA, KYOTO PREF. – At the June 2016 Paris Motor Show, one of the four major global auto exhibitions, Dieter Zetsche, CEO of Daimler AG, revealed the German automaker’s new strategy expressed by an acronym CASE. C stands for “connected,” meaning that the driver of a future car will be able to receive services from information networks by being connected with cloud computing networks; A for autonomous driving; S for “sharing and services” and E for electric vehicles. These four letters brilliantly summarize a...
read moreAxios Autonomous Vehicles
1 big thing: A wave of showy AV deals Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Waymo has inked an exclusive partnership with the giant Renault-Nissan Alliance on autonomous vehicles, the latest in a dizzying array of headline-grabbing deals in the AV space. The big picture: Carmakers and technology companies need to work together on self-driving cars because neither industry has the expertise to do it alone. But some so-called partnerships lack substance or seem to be driven as much by ambition and the need for credibility and capital...
read moreEVALUATING AUTONOMY IIHS examines driver assistance features in road, track tests
This article original submitted on iihs.org Curves and hills can challenge active lane-keeping systems. The Tesla Model 3 performed well in these on-road tests. On-road and track tests are helping IIHS craft a consumer ratings program for advanced driver assistance systems. Evaluations of adaptive cruise control and active lane-keeping show variable performance in typical driving situations, such as approaching stopped vehicles and negotiating hills and curves. The early results underscore the fact that today’s systems aren’t...
read moreTHE WIRED GUIDE TO SELF-DRIVING CARS
How a chaotic skunkworks race in the desert launched what’s poised to be a runaway global industry. This article original submitted on wired.com IN THE PAST five years, autonomous driving has gone from “maybe possible” to “definitely possible” to “inevitable” to “how did anyone ever think this wasn’t inevitable?” Every significant automaker is pursuing the tech, eager to rebrand and rebuild itself as a “mobility provider” before the idea of car ownership goes kaput. Waymo, the company that emerged from Google’s self-driving car project,...
read moreRe-imagine ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’ 30 years later, this time with autonomous cars
This article original submitted on eu.usatoday.com “If Dad hadn’t shot Walt Disney in the leg, it would have been our best vacation ever.” That’s the opening line to the short story that inspired the classic movie “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” which premiered in theaters 35 years ago this summer. The Griswolds’ zany cross-country odyssey spoofed the mythos surrounding the great American road trip, reassuring parents through their own travel disasters and disappointments. Things are about to get better. Road trips are as...
read moreHow IoT is Driving the Autonomous Vehicle Revolution
This article original submitted on IoTforall.com The concept of self-driving cars has always intrigued many people. We’ve seen it on television shows like Knight Rider and in films including Batman, Minority Report, and Total Recall. But within the last couple years, the idea is quickly turning into reality. The reason for this is the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the connectivity of multiple devices through the Internet. Driverless cars utilize this connectivity when updating their algorithms based on user data....
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