Tag Archives :: autonomous car
Is the World Ready for Driverless Car Racing?
December 7, 2015 – People love to race things—be it their fellow humans, machines, or beasts. So, it was probably inevitable that autonomous cars would eventually find their way into competition. It was announced earlier this week that Formula E, the year-old FIA racing series designed exclusively for fully electric vehicles, intends to launch a new global race series for […] [Continue Reading]C3 Group Brings Connected Car Conversation to SXSW
March 25, 2015 – The interactive, music and film conferences collectively known as South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas each March has emerged over a quarter-century-plus as a must-attend technology and cultural event. Approximately 80,000 people converge at SXSW over nine days, turning Austin’s small downtown into a milieu of innovative ideas, indie-movie screenings and cutting-edge musical performances, […] [Continue Reading]
NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind on Innovation and Future Safety
March 19, 2015 – This year’s Connected Car Pavilion in Austin, Texas during SXSW featured the latest in automotive technologies, coupled with emerging new product categories that will aid in the advancement of transportation. Along with the coast-to-coast self-driving car and advanced aerial drone technologies on display, we were treated to a keynote address from NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind […] [Continue Reading]
NXP and Freescale Combine to Create an Automotive Chip “Giant”
March 12, 2015 – As consumers and markets warm to the idea of mobile payments, news from the semiconductor industry might just provide the technological tipping point needed to achieve mass market adoption in the auto industry. Last week’s announcement of NXP Semiconductor NV’s acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor Ltd. will create a single company with chip manufacturing […] [Continue Reading]
Powered by Google, Built by Others
January 15, 2015 – It’s becoming clear that Google was never intent on competing with automakers in putting a self-driving car into the market. Recent news of Google’s talks with numerous car companies and their collaboration with various automotive suppliers suggests that the tech giant’s main interest is participating with automakers to build autonomous vehicles branded under a car […] [Continue Reading]
CES Day Two: Autonomous Vehicles Hit the Streets of Vegas
January 7, 2015 – The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show is clearly the new launching point for automotive technology, proven once again by the introduction of multiple autonomous vehicle concepts by numerous automakers. Here is a roundup of key self-driving car technology introductions and other related news going on at 2015 CES: Mercedes Benz The Mercedes-Benz F-015 “Luxury In Motion” […] [Continue Reading]
CES Day One: In-Car Supercomputing and Advanced Infotainment
January 6, 2015 – The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show has opened, and we start our Day One coverage with few introductions of advanced driver assist systems (ADAS), integrated infotainment technologies and interesting cloud-based data processing platforms that are worthy of attention during the four-day event. NVIDIA The company introduced two in-car supercomputer processors equipped with advanced capabilities for machine learning, visual computing […] [Continue Reading]
2015 CES and the Connected Car: Technology on Display
January 5, 2015 – 2015 is shaping up to be another milestone year for the connected car, and this year’s Consumer Electronics Show promises to be the showcase event. Underscoring the expanding importance of the connected car, a record 10 automotive manufacturers (Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM, Hyundai, Mazda, Mercedes, Toyota and Volkswagen) will be exhibiting at various CES […] [Continue Reading]
Technology Takes Center Stage in LA
November 21, 2014 – Nearly 50 new vehicles made their North American debut at this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show. And several automakers also used the occasion to introduce their latest vehicle technologies, with an emphasis on forward compatibility and newly visualized cockpits and interiors. Case in point is Audi’s new MIB-2 (Modular Infotainment Platform), which is the automaker’s […] [Continue Reading]
Self Driving Cars Breaking Bad: Who is Responsible?
November 19, 2014 – Laws governing autonomous vehicles are being debated around the country, focusing on liability and responsibility for when the technology performs poorly. The issue is complex: When a self-driving vehicle causes damage or harm, who is responsible? Is it the “driver?” Is it the automaker? Or is it the company that developed the software commanding the […] [Continue Reading]
How Future Mobility Can Help You Pay For and Insure Your Car
November 18, 2014 – Vehicle ownership has been debated as becoming highly disrupted when considering the impact of connected car sharing, particularly in urban areas that offer multiple modes of transportation. For a growing population of urbanites around the world, it is simply cheaper to use a combination of mass transit, walking, biking and on-demand car- and ride-sharing than […] [Continue Reading]
Tesla’s New Focus: Big Data Crunching
November 13, 2014 – Not one to wait for auto or tech industry progress, Tesla Motors recently discussed the in-house creation of a new enterprise software platform using an open-source Apache Hadoop cluster and creating a framework for processing the Big Data sets generated by the company’s vehicles. The combined platform, according to Tesla, will allow software engineers and […] [Continue Reading]
Autonomous Vehicles and the Mobility of New (and Old) Consumers
October 16, 2014 – With all of the news of autonomous vehicles possibly changing the urban transportation landscape in some European metropolitan areas, we have to wonder what other disruptive events will take place as self-driving vehicles enter the market. Some obvious applications are commercial and military, in which the benefits of lower driver error and the ability to […] [Continue Reading]