Eric Tanenblatt
Full bioThe Driverless Commute: NHTSA, FMCSA extend comment periods for amendments to regulations impacting AVs
Both the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) have extended the comment […]
The Driverless Commute: GM, like Waymo before it, missed an AV deadline, but what does it mean for the industry going forward?; tension building between AV, transit advocates
1. The big question before AV makers: first, or best? As the unit economics of driverless cars continue to spiral, […]
The Driverless Commute: VW and Ford to partner on AVs, latest in long string of tie-ups; 11 companies unveil safety-as-design principles, offering closest thing to industry standard; and Lyft tests its cars on blind passengers
1. Big tabs and hard realities. Going-it-alone is, like, so 2018. Volkswagen and Ford, one-time rivals fast sobering to the […]
The Driverless Commute in WardsAuto: Biggest Roadblock to Autonomous Vehicles Isn’t Technology
The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards need to be reworked or overhauled if autonomous vehicles are going to reach their […]
The Driverless Commute: Apple stuns with Drive.AI acquisition; did Florida go too far in new AV bill?; Toyota throws in with Baidu’s Apollo project; and Waymo rolls out limited partnership with Lyft in Arizona
1. Assumptions and expectations Apple, the famously secretive consumer electronics giant, said this week it had acquired self-driving startup Drive.AI, […]
The Driverless Commute: Finally out of dark days of early 2000s, do airlines need to be scared of AV disruption threat?; Florida OKs fully self-driving cars; and the long list of new tie-ups and break-ups
1. Disruption The years that followed the September 11, 2001 terror attacks were uniquely challenging for airlines, but consolidation, cheap […]
The Driverless Commute: Cities aren’t planning for AV deployment and that’s a problem; NHTSA is weighing rewrites of car and commercial vehicle rules; US lags global rivals over lack of national legislation
1. Urban (not)planning Cities were once highly compact and walkable places that blended residences and workplaces and where people commanded […]
The Driverless Commute: New Federal Autonomous Vehicle Rules on the Horizon
On Wednesday, May 22, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced […]
The Driverless Commute: Groups ask NHTSA to pump brakes on GM AV petition; USPS goes driverless; the last-ten-feet problem; and Cruise can make left turns in San Fran better than you
1. Public comment season Groups representing property and life insurance providers, car dealers and consumer safety advocates were among those […]
The Driverless Commute: Senior Senate GOPer pledges to renew push for federal AV bill, again; is China going to leapfrog the US in the AV leaderboard?; and a RI cop pulled over an AV shuttle because it looked weird.
1. New hope for federal AV framework? Doubtful. Senate Republicans will rev consideration of a long-stalled comprehensive federal framework for […]
The Driverless Commute: If AVs take more risks now in early-phase deployment, will they be safer in the long-term?; big electrification news on both coasts; an electrified future for LA while Trump is open to spending on EV charging networks.
1. Humans can’t stop rear-ending slow-moving autonomous vehicles. But who’s to blame: the human, whose behavior mirrors norms if not […]