James Richardson, Author at Driverless Commute

Driverless Commute

A digest clocking the most important technical, legal and regulatory developments shaping the path to full autonomy

The Driverless Commute in Bloomberg Law: The Decade-Long Self-Driving Honeymoon Is Over. What’s Next?

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

The Driverless Commute: Is it still too soon for parking lot deployment? South Korea plans massive smart-road investment ahead of AVs; and European carmakers beginning to bristle at tough regs

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

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.

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

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

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

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

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

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

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

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

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

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

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

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

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.

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

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.

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson

The Driverless Commute: A light pollution solution in AVs; Tesla-taxis; and Waymo’s app is up for download

By Eric Tanenblatt and James Richardson