by dankeelan | Nov 21, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Climate
When Hector Xu was learning to fly a helicopter in college, he recalled having a few “nasty experiences” while trying to navigate at night. The heart-stopping flights led to his research of unmanned aircraft systems while getting his doctorate degree in aerospace...
by dankeelan | Nov 21, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Transit
May Mobility is slowly advancing its driverless capabilities. The startup this week launched a small-scale deployment of autonomous shuttles, which will drive themselves along a fixed route without a human safety driver present. May will initially deploy one to two...
by dankeelan | Nov 14, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
A California state agency said on Thursday it is mandating enhanced data reporting requirements for autonomous vehicles including reports for incidents where self-driving cars get stuck. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is requiring companies to file...
by dankeelan | Nov 14, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Safety
Toyota is teaching driverless cars to deliberately skid sideways at high speed while still safely navigating a course. The company says the technique wouldn’t be used on the road as part of the normal driving experience, but could give an autonomous car the ability to...
by dankeelan | Nov 14, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Trucks
In 2023, freight trucks moved $15 trillion worth of goods in the United States. Trucking is what keeps America’s economy moving, plain and simple. Yet this workhorse of consumerism is now ripe for disruption. Advances in artificial intelligence, lasers, radar,...
by dankeelan | Nov 13, 2024 | Autonomous Ships, Autonomous Vehicles, Military
Saab announced this week the arrival of something called the Autonomous Ocean Core. Technically a hardware and software suite, the tech is described as a ready-to-use autonomous control system meant to turn surface and subsurface ships into autonomous platforms...
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