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, […]

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

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 […]

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

1. Public comment season Groups representing property and life insurance providers, car dealers and consumer safety advocates were among those […]

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

1. Seeing in the dark A new paper published this month in the journal of Science and Engineering Ethics posits […]

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

1. A bear year 2018 was the year of the driverless car. No, they didn’t become commercially available and they […]

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

1. Beijing just issued AV report cards. Here’s why you should use California’s instead. Beijing transportation officials offered this week […]

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

1. NHTSA advances GM’s FMVSS exemption bid. But we still don’t have answers on liability. The National Highway Traffic Safety […]

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

1. When an engineer’s implicit bias becomes a computer’s Can the machine learning algorithms that underpin the operation of autonomous […]

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson