Uber’s Deadly 2018 Autonomous Vehicle Crash Isn’t Over Yet

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:05:13 +0000

In some ways, the 2018 accident where an Uber autonomous vehicle left a woman dead is ancient news. Uber doesn’t even have an autonomous vehicle division now, and the autonomous vehicle world has largely moved on. In a world of 24-hour news cycles and rapidly moving technology, it may have well happened in 1918. But, […]

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Washington State Patrol Puts The Cart Ahead Of The Horse

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:05:04 +0000

It’s common when dealing with safety issues to lose sight of what’s measurable and addressable through logic and get caught up in the emotion of an anecdote. Distracted driving deaths in the US totaled over 3,000 people, which isn’t far off of what we saw on 9/11. But, when we see people attempting to address […]

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NHTSA Releasing Automated Vehicle Safety Data This Month

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:41:11 +0000

Last week, a report at the Wall Street Journal said that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, or “Nitz Uh”) is going to release safety data on automated driving systems this month. Specifically, it’s going to be data they started collecting last year. NHTSA Data Collection Under last year’s “standing general order” (no, not […]

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Tesla Vision Expanded To Australia, New Zealand, & Japan

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:17:53 +0000

Australia, New Zealand, and Japan are now able to use Tesla Vision, a camera-based and neural network Autopilot feature that helps drivers to drive safely when the feature is on. Tesla recently expanded Tesla Vision, its camera-based Autopilot, to Australia and New Zealand, Teslarati reported. In May 2021, Tesla started shipping its Models 3 and […]

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Tesla Full Self Driving Beta V10.12.2 — A Big Improvement, More Aggressive … But!

Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 03:45:56 +0000

Background: I have driven my 2019 Tesla Model 3 Long Range now for two years and 7 months. The odometer reads 70,469 miles. I’ve been driving it across the country on the Interstate highways from North Carolina to Southern California, on the 12-lane metropolitan I-15 freeways and intersections of Salt Lake City, as well as […]

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Baidu & Geely Reveal JIDU ROBO-01 Autonomous Vehicle Design

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:56:20 +0000

When it comes to autonomous vehicles, Tesla gets a lot of the attention. People watching the industry also know about Waymo (a subsidiary of Alphabet, the parent company of Google) and maybe Argo.ai and Cruise. To know about much else, you’d have to be either a superfan of autonomous vehicles, work in the industry, or […]

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Tesla Full Self Driving Is Using GPT For Vision — Dr. Know It All Explains What This Means

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 01:57:18 +0000

Tesla’s Full-Self Driving is using generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) for vision, Elon Musk tweeted recently. He added that the GPTs are running natively on Tesla TRIP chips versus needing to round trip to iGPU. I think it’s important to take a quick deep dive into this, because this is kind of the heart and soul […]

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Electric Acts of Kindness, 50,000 Reservations for Fisker Ocean, VinFast VF 8 & VF 9 Coming to Europe — EV News Today

Credit to Author: EV News Today| Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 06:43:56 +0000

The Hyundai IONIQ 5’s V2L technology creates an act of kindness that supports the brand’s vision of Progress for Humanity. Vinfast outlines its plan for sales and customer service locations — VinFast Stores — in Germany, France, and the Netherlands. There are 50,000 reservations for the Fisker Ocean SUV. Scroll down for more EV news […]

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Tesla AI Day #2 Moved, Tesla Might Have Working Optimus Bot Prototype There

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2022 03:01:10 +0000

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that Tesla’s AI Day #2 has been pushed back to September 30, 2022. He said on Twitter that Tesla may actually have an Optimus prototype working by the new date. He recently announced a second AI Day that was planned on the same date as last year’s. AI Day […]

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Autonomous Gold Coast Smart Shuttle

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 22:36:14 +0000

Gold Coast Smart ShuttleThe 6 seat EasyMile Smart Shuttle has been deployed in various places in southeast Queensland for the past 3 years. Phase one was located on Karragarra Island between November 2019 and April 2020 and was Queensland’s first full on-road trial. Phase two was carried out at Raby Bay from November 2020 until June 2021. These […]

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