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 […]
Autonomous Vehicles
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 […]
The Driverless Commute: A light pollution solution in AVs; Tesla-taxis; and Waymo’s app is up for download
1. Seeing in the dark A new paper published this month in the journal of Science and Engineering Ethics posits […]
The Driverless Commute in Compliance Review: The prospect of the commercialization of Level-3 autonomous driving in China
1. Baidu joins hands with GAC, formally launching the high-precision map and self-localization mass production project On April 11, Guangzhou […]
The Driverless Commute: Is 2019 a bear turn for AVs?; the fight over connected car communication divides car makers in Europe; cheaper, lighter LiDAR and machine-learning for lane-keeping.
1. A bear year 2018 was the year of the driverless car. No, they didn’t become commercially available and they […]
The Driverless Commute in Compliance Review: Intelligent and digital infrastructures are scheduled to accompany automatic vehicles in China
Boao Forum for Asia (“BFA”) was held on March 26 to 29, 2019. Its sub-forum — 5G: The achiever of […]