Bay Area startup Zoox, unveiled its design for a driverless taxi at CES 2023. Zoox is one of the few EV companies headed by a woman (Aicha Evans, Zoox CEO); it is an independent subsidiary under Amazon.com that is designing autonomous robots to deliver packages in the future. The futuristic Zoox taxi can operate for …
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Peugeot’s 15 ft Inception EV @CES 2023
Peugeot says its “feline-like” 5-meter (15-ft) Inception model looks like a cat ready to pounce and represents the new design concept for the brand. Inception features a 100kWh battery which can cover a range of 497 miles per charge. It comes with many cool gadgets; for example, it replaced the steering wheel with a video …
DeLorean’s Futuristic Omega @CES 2023
Delorean motors showcased its rugged electric Omega with massive tires and huge, futuristic glass panels. These glass panels also serve as the car’s headlights and taillights. The car was designed to showcase a polished high-tech exterior with rugged wheels and a lifted stance. In the back, it has a solar panel designed as bionic flaps.
Nissan’s Nuro Car Boasts Reading Brain Waves to Guide It
We were driving in Mountain View, CA (in Silicon Valley) and noticed a car named Nuro and a couple of printed warnings about its behavior. When we reached home, we found it at this link. We, and most of the populace, have doubts about self-driving vehicles. Several self-driving cars and trucks are being developed, but …
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Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire Subsidiary Isn’t Yet a Proven Success
The LiveWire electric model is quiet, but it appears that Harley-Davidson’s customers want to appear macho with a noisy model.
Incorporating Ethics in Autonomous Design Systems (ADS)
Stanford Professors Tom Byers led a lively discussion of how to design ethical principles for autonomous vehicles with Stanford’s Chris Gerdes and Ford Motor’s Tony D’amato. Gerdes and D’amato believe that developing these rules relies on being able to translate legal and ethical principles into engineering requirements, with no need for endless philosophical discussions about …
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Building Ethics into Autonomous Vehicles
The virtual event on Building Ethics into Autonomous Vehicles will take at place at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) on Monday, October 10, from 6-7 pm PT. Professor Tom Byers will lead a conversation with two experts in autonomous vehicles, Stanford professor Chris Gerdes and Tony D’amato. Of the Ford Motor Co. …
Cornell’s Self-Driving Cars Have Memory
Cornell researchers built an artificial neural network for self-driving cars to make the cars remember routes and signs; each vehicle that uses this network can identify what constitutes traffic participants and what is safe to ignore. After several tests runs on the road, these vehicles can reliably detect and identify objects, even if they are traveling …
Finland’s Driverless Sensible 4 Survives Extreme Temperatures
Finland’s Sensible 4 passed testing in extreme weather conditions. Freezing rain can affect the hardware, and their recent test in June 2022 proved that the cars, and self-driving software, and underlying hardware were not affected by the freezing conditions or the rain. Sensible 4 can also remember which part of the street to park on …
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Self-Driving Cars Will Change Parking, Forever!
Parking in cities, as we know it, will change quickly, thanks to driverless cars. Imagine if these autonomous cars drop people off at a crowded city street or at a theater, then drive to a less crowded area to park, and later drive back to pick up their passengers. What will people do in New …
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