Infrastructure
Driverless cars and other AV’s will have a significant impact on infrastructure, either requiring new solutions or making current infrastructure obsolete.
Audi made a big move in the self-driving car game
This article original posted on businessinsider.com Soon, Audi cars are going to be able to tell drivers when a light will turn green. The new feature marks the first time an automaker has successfully launched something called a vehicle-to infrastructure (V2I) communication channel. V2I refers to any time a structure in a city, like a traffic light, relays data to a car. The traffic light timer will be displayed behind the wheel of the car. At this point, the system only works in Las Vegas and in Audi’s A4, Q7, and A4 allroad models built...
read moreAutonomous Vehicles: Feds Step on the Data-Sharing Pedal
This article original published on upside.tdwi.org In little more than two months since I published an in-depth review of the implications of autonomous vehicles for IT, employment, and society at large, the topic has switched to the fast lane of public interest. This week, even the US government has taken to the road to promote sharing of autonomous vehicle data… to perhaps predictable industry reactions. But first, here’s the rest of the news. Just as the above series was going to press, the first fatality involving a semi-autonomous...
read moreThese Cities Could Lead the Driverless Car Revolution
This article original posted on fortune.com The urban landscape is in for a drastic change. With some cities using autonomous vehicle technology to rethink their public transportation and infrastructure, the federal government is helping encourage the technology’s spread. President Obama announced in a September editorial new federal rules to facilitate the gradual introduction of driverless vehicles on American roads. The plan consists of a 15-point safety assessment of the vehicles and proposes model legislation that states and cities can...
read moreOnly 6% of Cities are Preparing for Driverless Cars
This article original posted on fortune.com Car-makers say driverless vehicles will be here by 2020, but urban planners are on a much slower timeline. In a study released last month, the National League of Cities found that only 6% of cities’ current long-term transportation plans consider the potential effects of driverless car technology. That’s despite claims by manufacturers like Nissan, Volvo, Toyota TM 3.25% , and Google GOOG 1.38% , who say autonomous vehicles will arrive by 2020–which is (amazingly) just five years from now. That...
read moreHow Many American Cities Are Preparing For The Arrival of Self-Driving Cars? Not Many.
This article original posted on techcrunch.com Only about 6 percent of the country’s biggest cities are planning for or thinking about autonomous vehicles or self-driving cars in their long-range transportation plans, according to the National League of Cities. What’s even more surprising is that only 3 percent of these cities’ transit plans are even taking into account the impact of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft even though they already operate in 60 of the 68 largest markets in the U.S. That’s according to a content analysis of...
read moreCountry Mice, City Mice, and Autonomous Vehicles
This article original posted on thetruthaboutcars.com The autonomous vehicle is coming. Everybody says so. Or at least everybody who is paid to be optimistic about the fascist-corporate future of the Western World says so. Autonomous vehicles are already so safe that the only risks come from the imperfect humans surrounding them. The Timesregularly fawns over the autonomous vehicle in the same vaguely insincere, Backpfeifengesicht-smirking way it concern-trolls about suicide-by-firearm. The problem, you see, is with all the peopleout there....
read moreCan the internet of things save us from traffic jams?
Read the original article on the guardian.com Traffic is getting worse. It doesn’t just feel that way, the stats prove it: commuters in 2014 spent an average 66 more hours stuck in traffic than they did in 2013, according to navigation tech firm TomTom. So when internet of things technology is disrupting every part of our lives, when will traffic lights be rethought and rebuilt? Well, the traffic light revolution is already underway. It is all part of the promise of connected and self-driving cars, which allow data about individual journeys,...
read moreAutonomous vehicles could reduce Australian road infrastructure growth by a factor of three!
The original article can be found on driverless-future.com A report issued by Australian telecommunications company Telstra shows that autonomous vehicles could save Australia billions of dollars in traffic infrastructure investment. With conventional vehicles, the capacity of the road network would need to more than double (to 250%) over the next 35 five years to accommodate increased mobility demand. Self-driving cars, however, use the road more efficiently and require less road capacity. Based on the assumption that autonomous vehicles...
read moreA Ride Around Michigan’s Driverless City
The original article is on technologyreview.com The streets of a new neighborhood on the edge of Ann Arbor, Michigan, seem remarkably clean and peaceful. For automated cars, however, they represent daunting challenges. The University of Michigan opened the area, called Mcity, this week, as a place for automotive companies and suppliers to test technology for automated and connected driving. The facility was built in collaboration with the Michigan Department of Transportation and with funding from numerous automakers and suppliers, who will...
read moreTransforming Personal Mobility
The original report can be found here. The Earth Institute, Columbia University has done research three distinctly different case studies to assess the personal mobility system that results from combining: The “Mobility Internet” Self-driving/driverless vehicles Shared vehicle systems Specific-purpose vehicle designs Advanced propulsion systems Results indicate that this transformational mobility system: Is capable of supplying better mobility experiences at radically lower cost under a wide range of circumstances Offers substantial...
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