The Norwegian Ministry of Transport is currently working on a bill to authorize self-driving vehicle testing in the country, with the intent being to submit the bill to the country’s parliament sometime in the spring.
Tesla has been pushing the envelope on the amount of technology in cars since day #1 and continues to push the envelope on quite a number of topics — range per charge, size of the screen in the car (sometimes size does matter), acceleration, safety features, and more. This nicely dovetails into … [continued]
Autonomous or self-driving vehicle technologies can now be tested in the state of California without there being direct passenger/engineer oversight … in some instances. This follows Governor Jerry Brown signing a new bill covering the topic. That makes for a rather important milestone — it was, after all, right around 4 years ago that … [continued]
Tesla Autopilot — man, that’s a topic for a John Oliver skit, isn’t it? We all knew that, sooner or later, someone would die while driving a Tesla with Autopilot on. The technology isn’t a forcefield that can protect drivers from every dangerous scenario. Even if it was “perfect” at … [continued]
Following a March 2015 investment of $2.9 million, the state of Michigan has announced that it will be putting a further $17 million into the initiative to transform an old GM facility into an autonomous driving technology testing facility, according to recent reports. The exact plans call for the closed … [continued]
The recent Tesla Quarter 2 financials call yielded a lot of new information, including some interesting new comments about the company’s progress towards the achievement of fully autonomous driving. Of particular note was a series of comments made by CEO Elon Musk concerning the use of “increasingly sophisticated neural maps” … [continued]
A new autonomous passenger bus shuttle service has been launched in Sion, Switzerland — the first “endurance” test of an autonomous passenger service in the world, according to those involved. (Hat tip to Craig Morris for the news.) The recent launch event for the PostBus Smart shuttles was attended by Mayor Marcel … [continued]
Mercedes-Benz recently unveiled its new “Future Bus with CityPilot” — an upgrade of the company’s Highway Pilot technology — which allows buses to autonomously drive more than 12 miles in a congested urban environment, according to recent reports. The technology was demonstrated recently on a bus-rapid-transit (BRT) route from Schiphol Airport in … [continued]
BMW will be working with Intel and Mobileye on the development of new autonomous driving technology to be used in a new BMW model that’s expected to be launched in 2021, according to recent reports. The model will be part of BMW’s new iNEXT platform, and will presumably be followed … [continued]
There are over 30,000 deaths each year on the roads of the United States due to operator error… but not for long if self-driving vehicles have anything to say about it. With autonomous vehicles targeting to eliminate 90% of accidents caused by humans, they have the potential to save 27,000 … [continued]
