Vehicles
Vehicle topics include the various manufacturers producing new AV’s and the different aspects of the vehicles (form factors, costs, etc.)
After trying to build self-driving tractors for more than 20 years, John Deere has learned a hard truth about autonomy
This article original posted on Quartz Media LCC When building its first autonomous navigation system in the 1990s, John Deere just wanted to build a tractor that could drive down a field and make a turn on its own. But after more than 20 years, the company has found that approach was entirely insufficient—in order to drive the tractor, you need to replicate the farmer. “We have to have the ability to sense everything the human would inside of the system related to the quality of the job,” said Dan Leibfried, director of embedded solutions at...
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...
read moreThe Autonomous Report: How self-driving cars see the world
This article original posted on collisionrepairmag.com In this week’s Autonomous Report, we take a look at the enormous amount of venture capital being poured into autonomous vehicles (AVs) and why most of it will be lost, what your self-driving cars sees as it learns how to drive, a vision of the future that will see cars transformed into “transportation experience pods” and much, much more! – As the Autonomous Report has noted several times in recent weeks, the software that is turning out to be the most successful for AVs are...
read moreHOW AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WILL FOREVER CHANGE HOW WE BUY, OWN, AND INSURE CARS
This article original posted on digitaltrends.com There are plenty of stories about the work being done to develop a truly autonomous car. For the most part, we focus on the technology – the radar, the cameras, and the software that will pull it all together. There’s no doubt that the result will be life-changing, not only for those who can’t drive a conventional car but for all of us. But the shock waves of this disruptive technology will shake the world in more ways than one, and the technical work moving forward at automakers today has the...
read moreSelf-driving cars just had one of their best months yet
This article original posted on theverge.com ‘Autonomous vehicles are moving from their infancy into their adolescence.’ For most people, self-driving cars are just an abstraction, something they read about occasionally in the press but still consider a far-off, futuristic fantasy. They read the headlines and scoff, “Not in my lifetime.” But the events of this past month may help put a lot of that skepticism to rest. There was a flurry of activity in both Congress and the private sector over the past few weeks, signaling a key shift in the...
read moreThe Race for Autonomous Vehicles Picks Up Speed
This article original posted on nbcnews.com Crawling through rush hour traffic is probably the last thing you’re looking forward to on a Monday. So how about tapping an app on your smartphone and heading out the door and into a new Mercedes-Benz robo-cab? That’s the vision behind a new joint venture between Mercedes’ parent Daimler AG and German auto supplier Bosch. The project, announced earlier this week, is aimed at putting fully driverless cabs on the road by 2021, the partners explaining that, “The idea… is that...
read more10 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Hit The Road By 2020 — Here’s How To Profit
This article original posted on forbes.com Given the advanced state of driverless technologies and the amount of money being poured into the sector, there is little question—make that, no question at all—that within 10 years, driverless cars will be the norm. The implications are immense and widespread. There are currently about 1.4 billion cars on the road. Many of those cars, and eventually all, are going to be replaced by self-driving vehicles. Car sharing is already growing in popularity. When getting a ride someplace is as easy and...
read moreDriverless Cars Set to Save World Economies Billions – World Study
Traffic accidents cost world economies billions each year, but with the development of autonomous driving technologies these costs could be reduced dramatically. Autonomous driving technologies are revolutionising the automotive industry with their promise to improve vehicle safety and reduce traffic accidents, but what is the monetary impact of this on GDP? Experts at Global Positioning Specialists (GPS) have revealed how much GDP could be saved through driverless cars in 73 countries. GPS combined the percentage of GDP lost to traffic...
read moreIn the Future, We Might Live in Roaming Autonomous Cars
A futuristic concept called Autonomics envisions a nomadic life where phones become permanent addresses and self-driving cars hitch onto moving platforms. This article original posted on seeker.com Lots of Americans in suburban areas practically live in their cars already, spending hours in transit. With that in mind, the team at San Francisco-based NewDealDesign proposed a futuristic concept where life is lived on the go among various autonomous electric vehicles. Their vision, called Autonomics, pictures a new nomadic life on wheels where...
read moreAudi 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...
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