The Innovation Report
Fairfax: Testing Region’s First Self-driving Public Transit Shuttle
The Washington region is about to experience self-driving vehicles in public transportation. Fairfax County and Dominion Energy are testing an autonomous electric shuttle that could be carrying passengers between the Dunn Loring-Merrifield Metro station and the...
MIT Mobility Systems Center Funds Low-carbon Transportation Research
The Mobility Systems Center (MSC), one of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)’s Low-Carbon Energy Centers, will fund four new research projects that will allow for deeper insights into achieving a decarbonized transportation sector. "Based on input...
Houston: Pandemic Brings Smart City Opportunity
Houston, Texas, with 2.3 million residents, is one of the most diverse cities in America. In the last few decades, Hispanic and Asian immigrants thrived in this metropolis while African Americans established tight-knit communities. Perhaps due to its diversity,...
Wales Open: Self-Driving Cars to Transport Golfers and Caddies
The European Tour is usually a globetrotting circuit of tournaments spread across five continents but to get things back up and running, it is currently in the midst of an eight-week program of competition across the U.K. and Austria. Organizers have created a...
COVID-19 and Adoption of AV Technology
With countless changes forced upon our day-to-day lives by the COVID-19 pandemic, the automotive and transportation industries are on the lookout for how changes in consumer behavior may affect the adoption of autonomous vehicles (AV) technologies across all facets of...
Next Step in Bringing AVs to UK Motorways
The UK government has launched a call for evidence that self-driving vehicles can be driven safely on city streets and motorways. On August 18, the UK Department for Transport, and the Center for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, announced a new...
2022 Asian Games Feature Level 4 Autonomous Robo-taxis
A new partnership between AV systems developers DeepRoute and electric vehicle pioneers Cao Cao Mobility is promising to commercialise Level 4 autonomous robo-taxis for deployment at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Cao Cao will...
Driverless Mass Transit Faces Challenges
SHARAD AGARWAL HAS a prediction about driverless vehicles: “Autonomous public transportation is going to happen,” he says, “and it’s going to happen sooner than with taxis and cars.” Agarwal leads the North American division of EasyMile, one of several...
Israeli Firm Develops AV Verification
Foretellix essentially enables measurable safety of autonomous vehicles by making a transition from the initial industry-standard measuring the number of kilometers the vehicle has driven to the ability to automatically test and cover billions of possible scenarios...
What the Twitter Breach Means for You
On Wednesday, July 15th, Twitter suffered an astonishing breach of security that allowed a hacker (or hackers) access to an internal IT administrator tool used to manage accounts. Some of the notable accounts that were breached belonged to Elon Musk,...
