Autonomous Vehicles
The Driverless Commute: Urban planning nightmares with AV deployment; AV industry’s diversity and inclusion crisis; and how bogus satellite data could hack an AVs operation.
1. When AVs are king Cities were once highly compact, walkable places that blended residences and workplaces and where people […]
The Driverless Commute: AV industry publishes first framework for building, testing and operating safe vehicles
Twelve industry leaders across the automotive and automated driving technology spectrum, including carmakers Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen and Fiat Chrysler […]
The Driverless Commute: Emergence of L4 autonomous driving in China
The Driverless Commute: Autonomous Vehicles: US Legal and Regulatory Landscape
The 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: Road safety with driver assistance systems – EU Commission supports ISA systems for Europe
By 2022, new cars produced in the EU will only come off the production line after being equipped with a […]
The Driverless Commute: China issues first batch of L4-level automotive road-test driving licenses—all to Baidu
On July 1, 2019, the Beijing Automotive Driving Test Management Joint-Committee issued the first batch of L4 Level Automobile Road-Test […]
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, […]