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Autonomous Car Hype Is Way Ahead Of Reality
This article original posted on forbes.com “We’re so close, so close, yet so far away,” sang legendary rock duo Hall and Oates back in the 1990s on the subject of love. Driverless cars were science fiction then, but now despite the massive investment and hyperbole, autonomous vehicles won’t be with us for a while yet. The problem is that despite hugely impressive gains in autonomous technology, the last percentage points of progress towards 100% reliability are proving difficult to achieve. Other more prosaic hurdles loom too like...
read moreAutonomous taxi service from users’ perspective
This article original posted on tooploox.com Self-driving cars are gaining quite a traction these days. Tooploox dedicated a few blog posts to them, but they all looked at the topic from data science perspective. But what about human perspective? After all, most people won’t care about technical details – the service should “just work” and it’s also a designer’s responsibility. In this case, we’ll take a closer look at self-driving cars specifically in the taxi industry. We’ve analyzed a number of studies and whitepapers to better grasp the...
read moreNow is the time to plan for the autonomous vehicle future
This article original posted on techcrunch.com The arrival of autonomous vehicles bring the prospect of improved transportation systems without the capital costs, operating subsidies and construction delays of new highway lanes and fixed rail systems. Cities, states, and the Federal Government, need to revise their transportation planning accordingly. Autonomous vehicles have gone from a Jetson-like dream to a clear reality in less than one decade. In 2010, when Google first started developing autonomous vehicles, people asked, “Why are...
read moreSelf-driving vehicles: The “platform” business model
This article original posted on driverless-future.com How will autonomous car technology generate profits? Among the many different business models – from self-driving mobility services to models centered on data, advertising or entertainment – platform-oriented business models are currently receiving much attention, not the least because Waymo seems to be leaning towards them. The term “platform” can be understood in different ways: In the automotive context it is usually understood as a car platform where many different models share the...
read moreNO ONE KNOWS WHAT A SELF-DRIVING CAR IS, AND IT’S BECOMING A PROBLEM
This article original posted on wired.com “WE HAVE NOW self-driving cars.” So declared no less an authority than the United States’ chief of transportation, Secretary Elaine Chao, in a May interview with Fox Business. “They can drive on the highway, follow the white lines on the highway, and there’s really no need for any person to be seated and controlling any of the instruments.” This is wrong. Today, you can indeed buy a car with controls steering and braking for you. Tesla, Cadillac, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, and...
read moreHorseless carriage? You’ll never get me in one of those (haven’t we been here before?)
This article original posted on telecomtv.com Intel says passenger trust is the key to our autonomous future Industry needs to resolve several human machine interface tension points Gartner says 55 per cent of people will not ride in a fully autonomous vehicle Accenture developing a deep learning algorithm to transform driver safety What is it with change? You know there’s no going back and that you’ll love it eventually, but the often the very idea of it is too much to handle. Case in point; the car. Back in 1803, the great engineer Richard...
read moreWe need to stop pretending that the autonomous car is imminent
This article original posted on recode.net It’s time to face some challenging realities when it comes to autonomous cars. While consensus seems to imply that the future of driving is nearly upon us, even a relatively cursory check of some of the necessary enablers for truly autonomous automobiles would suggest otherwise. There are lots of legitimate concerns that represent a serious challenge to the near-term release of truly independent vehicles. From security concerns to high costs to missing infrastructure to car design complexity to...
read moreTesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparked Dissent Among Its Engineers
This article original submitted on wsj.com PALO ALTO, Calif.— Tesla Inc. TSLA -1.63% Chief Executive Elon Musk jolted the automotive world last year when he announced the company’s new vehicles would come with a hardware upgrade that would eventually allow them to drive themselves. He also jolted his own engineering ranks. Members of the company’s Autopilot team hadn’t yet designed a product they believed would safely and reliably control a car without human intervention, according to people familiar with the matter. In a meeting after the...
read moreWho Will Finish First in the Race for Autonomous Vehicles?
This article original posted on fticonsulting.com When we think of cities of the future, self-driving cars or Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are zipping around “smart” infrastructure, reducing traffic and urban sprawl and increasing efficiency. That vision isn’t that far off. But unlike other futuristic technologies, such as Virtual Reality or Artificial Intelligence, the projected $1.5 trillion AV industry faces incredibly complex regulatory environments that challenge stakeholders around the world in both public and private spheres....
read moreSELF-DRIVING CARS ARE CONFUSING DRIVERS—AND SPOOKING INSURERS
This article original posted on wired.com THE GREAT PROMISE of autonomous vehicles, aside from saving you from the tyranny of commuting, is their ability to save lives by replacing stupid humans with intelligent computers. But these cars, at least in the short-term, could make driving riskier because people don’t yet understand the technology or just how it works. British auto insurance companies call this “autonomous ambiguity,” and it is not an abstract issue. Automakers like Audi, Cadillac, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, and Volvo...
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