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...
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....
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...
Jan 4, 2024 | Privacy, Safety, Smart Cities
Tools like smart streetlights help cities understand what’s going on at the ground level, but as solutions advance, officials say they should be easy to stand up and keep public privacy top of mind. Ease of deployment may be one area where the urban tech...
Dec 21, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Safety
First responders carry the weight of tremendously challenging roles, facing high-stress situations daily and frequently encountering individuals on the worst days of their lives. Whether providing critical care in an ambulance or ensuring community safety on patrol,...
Dec 14, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Rideshare, Safety
A quest for lower costs and efficiently moving goods and groups of people is pushing demand for driverless technology in trucks and shuttles, even as robotaxis battle renewed doubts after an October accident involving a General Motors Cruise car. Pittsburgh,...
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