Being able to work anywhere and anytime is now a necessary part of everyday work life. The Covid19 pandemic accelerated this trend with the mandate of staff working from home but now some organizations have found long-term advantages with this approach and are keeping some of these practices intact. Higher staff productivity because of lack…
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Cruise is an all-electric self-driving company founded in 2013 and majority owned by GM with the mission to connect people to places and experiences that they care about. They have driven over 4 million autonomous driving miles since starting and with the launch of the Public Ridership Program in June 2022 they have driven over…
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As the testing and experiments in autonomous driving continue to ramp up all over the world here are some of the most interesting approaches: Toyota makes 10 million cars and each last approximately 10 years and each year driving something like 10 000 miles. Put it all together the Toyota Fleet each year is driving…
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There have been some interesting studies and experiments done on self-driving cars in the last year or so. Here is a top list of some of the more interesting ones: Impact of autonomous vehicles technology on climate change. Models show that carbon emissions can be reduced by up to 30% if we achieve a 40%…
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What do self-driving cars, elderly people and elevators have in common? Maybe more than we think. In an expose by Dan Wang from Columbia Business School, there seems to be a proven and historical path forward for societal acceptance of autonomous cars. In the early 1900s, all elevators had a person inside that operated the…
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Waymo (formerly Google’s self-driving car program) is in more than 25 cities across the country and each city location contributes something unique and valuable for building a driver system that’s capable of fully autonomous driving. Today they are driving more than a hundred thousand miles per week and from a technical perspective, this is a…
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Tesla’s Autopilot, Intel’s Mobileye, and a suite of other technologies are making self-driving autonomous cars closer and closer to reality. According to Austin Russell of Luminar though, camera systems like Autopilot only solve 99% of all autonomous use cases. This 99% might seem like a lot already but vehicle safety is really about covering the…
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Stellantis is a 400,000 person organization and one of the largest automakers producing 6 million cars per year across 14 brands like Maserati, Jeep, Chrysler and Ram. Because of this scale Stellantis sits on a massive amount of data which can be brought to bear on its AI capabilities for autonomous driving. Neda Cvijetic who…
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Treasure Island is an island between San Francisco and Oakland and is about two miles long with Yerba Buena Island is attached to it. Treasure Island is very flat and Yerba Buena Island is very hilly. A new 2023 pilot funded by the US DOT and San Francisco MTA will create an autonomous shuttle service…
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Kudos to Alanti Whittemore, who is the director of the Autonomous Vehicle Initiative at SAFE which is a D.C.-based organization doing transportation policy research organization. As a director, she is responsible for helping do policy research and create the political will for a federal policy framework for autonomous vehicles and also helping to articulate all…
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