View original post.Over more than a decade, self-driving vehicles have logged millions of miles on roadways across the globe. Despite all that driving, researchers say, the machines are still unable to replicate the sophisticated problem-solving and spontaneity human drivers employ each time they get behind the wheel. In their ambitious attempt to create an autonomous car service, companies like Waymo …

View original post.It’s a big question for many people in traffic-dense cities like Los Angeles: When will self-driving cars arrive? But following a series of high-profile accidents in the United States, safety issues could bring the autonomous dream to a screeching halt. At USC, researchers have published a new study that tackles a long-standing problem for autonomous vehicle developers: testing …

View original post.Several years ago, we offered a vision of where the future of mobility is headed. A world of seamless, intermodal on-demand travel, where private cars are increasingly supplanted by shared autonomous vehicles. We believed then—and now—that trends unfolding in self-driving cars, electric powertrains, ride-hailing, connectivity, micro-mobility, and more offered tremendous promise to address some of society’s most pressing …

View original post. Ford hasn’t shied away from the prospect of robo-cars. Back in 2017, Ford brought on autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI to develop a self-driving program with plans to provide a self-driving taxi service in several cities by 2021. It’s been testing in Miami, Washington, D.C., Detroit, and maybe soon in Austin. Its cars can be spotted testing …

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.To many, TomTom is a brand synonymous with satellite navigation (“Sat Nav”) devices plastered to car windshields. But behind the scenes, the Dutch mapping company has been building a veritable arsenal of navigation data and high definition (HD) maps as it gears up for the battle to power the connected, autonomous cars of tomorrow. TomTom may not have …

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 …