Waymo Shares Autonomous Data with the World
According to Drago Anguelov, Waymo's principal scientist and head of research, Waymo is making available its autonomous driving data for the purposes of research. This Open Data Set ostensibly is to be used for research purposes. However, this also includes research...
The Autonomous Technology Family Tree Spawned by the U.S. Government
The U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) organized three technology competitions in 2004, 2005 and 2007 to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicles. The development of this technology became very important after 9/11 as the...
Autonomous Vehicle Myths
A recent Washington Post opinion piece by John Browne highlights five myths about autonomous vehicles Mr. Browne attempts to explain. John Browne is the former chief executive of BP and the executive chairman of L1 Energy. He believes that autonomous vehicles are the...
Should Autonomous Vehicles be Electric Vehicles or ICE Vehicles?
General Motors has a point of view regarding this question. For GM, electric vehicles offer better integration of the required advanced technologies for autonomous vehicles that operate cleanly and safely. EVs offer the stable power and low latency required for...
What Does Bosch Think?
In an interview with Automotive News Europe (subscription required), the head of Bosch Mobility Solutions, Stefan Hartung, discusses a whole range of auto industry issues related to electrification, fuel cells, the internal combustion engine, and autonomous vehicle...
The Apple of Autonomous
It seems as though Apple is increasing the pace of development of some type of self-driving vehicle, what supposedly is being referred to as Project Titan internally at Apple. Earlier this year, Apple released a white paper vaguely describing the company’s...
The Biggest Disruptor. Elon Musk or Henry Ford?
In a CNN interview last week Ford CEO, Jim Hackett, mentioned that his company drove the biggest industrial disruption of the 20th century - more significant than the disruption being driven today by Elon Musk with Tesla. In response to a recent statement by Musk that...
GM Cruise Automation Gets Delayed
In a July 24 blog post, Cruise CEO, Dan Ammann announced more detailed information about Cruise Automation in San Francisco. Part of that announcement involved delaying the deployment of an autonomous service by the end of 2019. According the Ammann, the next steps...
Is Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Technology Undervalued?
Morgan Stanley’s automotive analyst, Adam Jonas, believes that investors are not recognizing the value of Tesla’s autonomous vehicle technology. GM's Cruise Automation and Waymo seem to get healthy valuations from Wall Street according Jonas. But it’s Tesla that...
A $2 Trillion Industry
According to a UBS Group AG analysis, the global robo-taxi market might be worth over $2 trillion per year by 2030. A May 2019 Detroit News article describes a UBS Evidence Lab simulation highlighting that a robot-taxi fleet in New York would “optimize routes and...