The Innovation Report
California Lawmakers Call For Stricter Regulation Of AVs
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 Waymo...
Autonomous Auto Racing Promises Safer Driverless Cars On The Road
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...
SpaceX Launches NASA’s PACE Satellite To Study Earth’s Oceans, Air, Climate
NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite has made it off the chopping block all the way to orbit. The nearly $1 billion PACE mission, which the Trump administration tried to cancel four separate times, launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early this morning...
Apple Has Tripled AV Testing
A few miles from Apple’s headquarters here, a gold SUV carrying a large, boxy sensor on its roof crossed a four-way intersection this summer and hung a left just like any other car on the street. But that car was one of 67 vehicles outfitted with autonomous...
How To Guarantee AV 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,...
Massachusetts To Spend $50 Million On EV Charging Projects
Massachusetts is directing $50 million toward EV charging projects in the state, with a goal of making it easier for residents to charge their electric vehicles. The money from the American Rescue Plan Act will go toward adding and improving EV charging stations,...
Battery Breakthrough Allows EVs To Go 1,000 Km On Single Charge
A lithium-ion battery breakthrough using tiny silicon particles and a gel polymer may lead to electric vehicles that can travel around 1000 km, or over 600 miles, on a single charge, scientists say. Drivers have consistently reported suffering...
New Jersey Transit’s Access Link Pilot Expands
NJ Transit is expanding its wildly successful Access Link pilot program. Access Link users in seven more counties will be eligible to opt in to the program, which makes other services such as Lyft and Black & White Taxi available to pick up riders using...
‘Spacewoman’ Celebrates NASA’s Eileen Collins, 1st Woman Space Commander
The first female space commander will be featured in a new documentary. The story of retired NASA astronaut Eileen Collins will be retold in "Spacewoman," a documentary coming in 2025 based on Collins' memoir "Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars" (Arcade,...
Autonomous Tech Featured In Senate Border And Foreign Aid Bill
The Senate’s bipartisan border security and foreign aid package released on Sunday would allocate millions of dollars toward the deployment of innovative technologies along the U.S.-Mexico border, including more autonomous systems and new artificial intelligence...
