by dankeelan | Feb 15, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
California lawmakers and labor unions rallied on Monday to call for laws to not allow autonomous trucks without human drivers, amid rising safety concerns after accidents involving self-driving taxis from General Motors and Alphabet. A robotaxi from Alphabet’s...
by dankeelan | Feb 15, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
The excitement of auto racing comes from split-second decisions and daring passes by fearless drivers. Imagine that scene, but without the driver—the car alone, guided by the invisible hand of artificial intelligence. Can the rush of racing unfold without a driver...
by dankeelan | Feb 8, 2024 | Air Mobility, Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
Driverless cars and planes are no longer the stuff of the future. In the city of San Francisco alone, two taxi companies have collectively logged 8 million miles of autonomous driving through August 2023. And more than 850,000 autonomous aerial vehicles, or drones,...
by dankeelan | Feb 1, 2024 | Electric Vehicles, Roads, Safety, Trucks
Crash tests indicate nation’s guardrail system can’t handle heavy electric vehicles Battery weights are too much for current road safety equipment, since EVs are 25 percent to 50 percent heavier than gas-powered cars. Electric vehicles that typically...
by dankeelan | Jan 11, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety, Testing
Waymo’s days of avoiding freeways are finally coming to an end. The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its fully driverless vehicles would begin tackling the higher speeds of Phoenix’s freeways, all while ferrying passengers to and from their destinations....
by dankeelan | Jan 4, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Delivery, Safety, Testing
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro has struck a deal with safety-focused software company Foretellix to help with virtual testing of its automated driving system, in a bid to cut R&D costs while still pushing the technology forward. The partnership, which the...
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