Autonomous Vehicles

Here is the announcement — https://www.argo.ai/company-news/argo-ai-begins-driverless-vehicle-operations-in-miami-austin/ The key misleading hype Working with TÜV SÜD, a world-leading safety organization In the preparation for operations of driverless test vehicles, Argo measured autonomy performance and safety requirements against industry best practices. Argo then proactively approached TÜV SÜD, a world-leading independent technical service provider…

ANDREW MCQUISTON In the U.S., the extraction of coal largely shifted from shaft mining to surface mining in the 1960s. This coincided with a rising economy and continued with growing energy supply and security needs. A U.S. Energy Information Administration consumption chart shows that between 1960 and 2008 the amount…

Uber revealed a host of new platforms and features during its global product event, Go Get 2022, on Monday. The new products span across Uber’s ride-hail and delivery services, and aim to increase ridership, open new lines of business, incentivize drivers to go electric and more. The new features were…

※ This article summarizes interesting news related to autonomous driving mobility not only in Korea(mainly) but also in other countries every week. I put some my comments in italics, the news related to South Korea may contain links and documents in Korean. << South Korea >> Korea is a leading country in mobile communication…

Robotics biweekly vol.50, 3d May — 17th May TL;DR A robot ‘chef’ has been trained to taste food at different stages of the chewing process to assess whether it’s sufficiently seasoned. Researchers have developed a single-material, single-stimuli microstructure that can outmaneuver even living cilia. These programmable, micron-scale structures could be used…

Here are three steps that federal, state, and local policymakers can take — Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are set to completely transform the future of transportation in our cities. And with predictions that indicate one in 10 vehicles will be self-driving by 2030, there is no doubt that the deployment of fully autonomous vehicles is well on its way. Autonomous vehicles will not only…

Any vehicle, robot, or traveling device that can travel on its own without the help of a human operator is an autonomous vehicle. Unless you are living in the Amazon forest with no internet connectivity, you would have already heard about autonomous vehicles. The scope of the term “autonomous vehicles”…