Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 03:34:35 +0000
First of all, for background, note that FSD was one of my top 4 reasons for buying a Tesla Model 3, and I’d be more than thrilled if FSD got to robotaxi-level capability — and the sooner, the better. I’m also a longtime TSLA shareholder, so any claims that I’d write anything negative about Tesla […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:00:18 +0000
I recently went on an exclusive test drive of XPeng’s “City Navigation Guided Pilot” (CNGP) in the city of Guangzhou, China — virtually. I rode in the car via what was basically a Zoom call (Chinese version of Zoom) alongside an XPeng engineer, PR people, and a “driver.” They had 4 cameras set up to […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:27:13 +0000
Cruise, one of the first robotaxi companies in the world, has been operating in the San Francisco area for a couple of months. The service hasn’t always been smooth sailing, but there also hasn’t been any dramatically bad or concerning news. This past week, though, Cruise (which GM is the majority owner of) rolled out […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 18:30:16 +0000
In the past, I’ve written several times about the attention problem with advanced driver assist systems. The fundamental problem is that when you aren’t having to steer the vehicle, it’s hard to keep yourself alert and awake, and a number of studies bear this out. Waymo sums it up like this: “… a general relationship […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 18:00:12 +0000
In a recent article, our head honcho shared a rumor about the Model 3 and Model Y, and the coming demise of the gear shifting stalk, turn signal stalk, and other manual controls. Tesla already did this with the more limited production Model S and X vehicles along with moving to a yoke steering wheel, […]
Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 13:00:47 +0000
Upstart VinFast is not your average electric vehicle company. The company was built as part of the expansive vision of parent company VinGroup, one of the largest companies in Vietnam. VinGroup aspires to be the change it wants to see in the world, for Vietnam and beyond. VinFast is the zero emission automotive arm of […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 20:50:38 +0000
It makes sense to perform the most hazardous activities in simulations when you’re testing advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicle prototypes, or simply automobiles in general. An early autonomous system may be extremely unpredictable, and Tesla warns that they might “make the wrong decision at the worst possible time.” So, before even installing a […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 02:32:40 +0000
The short news update on a case that extends back to 2019 is that an appeals court has overturned a regional court ruling from 2019 that determined Tesla could not use the term “Autopilot” on its website and in other marketing materials in Germany. In other words, Tesla is indeed allowed to use the term […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:50:46 +0000
While autonomous vehicle testing in the United States (especially with Tesla vehicles) gets a lot of our attention, we also like to keep an eye on developments in other places, like China. In what is being called a “world first,” Baidu, the “Google of China,” has been granted permits to offer commercial fully driverless ride-hailing […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 03:50:19 +0000
QUT robotics researchers working with Ford Motor Company have found a way to tell an autonomous vehicle which cameras to use when navigating. Professor Michael Milford, Joint Director of the QUT Centre for Robotics and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and senior author, said the research comes from a project looking at how cameras and […]