View original post.If developed properly, Mobility as a Service can offer the answer to the mobility problems of tomorrow, from air pollution to traffic congestion. To deploy its full potential, the parameters should be set right from the beginning. One of those parameters is the creation of closed versus open ecosystems. User-centric In its analyses, MaaS Alliance, the public-private partnership …

View original post.THE man plotting Nissan’s autonomous vehicle strategies got most of his inspiration in places with few cars and no roads. Chief technology director Maarten Serhuis works in Silicon Valley but relies on the ideas he gained from trials in the deserts of Australia and Utah, and the North Pole, when he was a lead researcher for NASA Mars …

View original post. Editor’s note: the author is the founder of Hart Solutions LLC;, and was previously Acting Chairman and Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (2014-2017). On August 30, 2017, I published an article in TheDrive about lessons that the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry could learn from decades of automation experience in aviation. In that article, I note …

View original post.Drivers of fully autonomous vehicles should not be held liable for crashes involving their cars while the technology is in charge, says the Association of British Insurers (ABI). This is among the views submitted to the Law Commission which is helping to work out how the UK will incorporate the rules currently being decided internationally on standards for …

View original post.This post is in association with moovel moovel’s vision is “a world without traffic jams”. Its solutions and apps are helping to simplify urban mobility and encourage people to switch to shared modes of transport in cities including Stuttgart, Los Angeles and Karlsruhe. Leon Rizzi, Chief Sales Officer, moovel, shares his insights on Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). SCW: Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) …

View original post.The University of Michigan, well known for its efforts in self-driving car tech, has been working on an improved algorithm for predicting the movements of pedestrians that takes into account not just what they’re doing, but how they’re doing it. This body language could be critical to predicting what a person does next. Keeping an eye on pedestrians …

View original post.Speed in two different versions has just been the subject of a trial at the UK’s Millbrook Proving Ground. Allying speed of cars and speed of data transmission, the AutoAir consortium, using 5G technology, undertook a test to transmit data to fast-moving vehicles at speeds of 1Gbps. The trial was designed to demonstrate the UK’s independent 5G-enabled infrastructure …

View original post. Research finds that programming driverless cars ahead of time inspires a person to move away from egocentric decision-making. There has been much speculation about how the coming wave of self-driving cars will change our lives. New research offers a welcome possibility: This new technology may prompt us to shift our thinking away from our own desires, and …

View original post. Utopian fantasies centered around miraculous autonomous cars have existed for some time now, but recent developments in the automotive industry have led to an unprecedented amount of hype surrounding these cars of the future. Despite the fact that self-driving cars have made some notable gains over the past few decades, we still have a long way to …

View original post. The Department for Transport wants to see fully autonomous cars – driving with no human oversight – and cars with no steering wheels tested on UK roads. Currently, the rules around trials require a human remote driver – not necessarily inside the vehicle but ready to take over control if needed. Any new trial must, however, abide …