Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Making Driverless Happen – The Road Forward
“It’s time to hit the start button,” is Fred Fishkin’s succinct way of summarizing the next steps in the Smart Driving Car journey. Fiskin, along with the LA Times’ Russ Mitchell co-produced the final session of the 2021 Smart Driving Car Summit, Making It Happen – Part 2. This 16th and final session in this…
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Driverless Lessons from the Sunshine State to the Garden State
“The interesting thing about this [autonomous vehicle] technology is that it has enormous potential for improving quality of life.” With that statement, Princeton Professor Alain Kornhauser set the stage for the penultimate session of the Smart Driving Car Summit, Making It Happen – Part 1. With a line-up of political leaders, this panel looked at…
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Viodi View – 04/08/21
Movement is a common thread to much of the infrastructure that enables modern society. Whether it is the movement of bits or electrons, liquids or gases, or parcels or people, infrastructure facilitates commerce and improves the quality of life by allowing people to enjoy things that physical barriers or distance would otherwise prevent. The cost…
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Energizing Tomorrow’s Electric Drivetrains
There is no simple answer to the question, What Will Power Safely-driven Cars, which is also the name of the April 1st, 2021 Smart Driving Car Summit session. One takeaway from this excellent session is that, as society looks to reduce the impacts of C02 emissions and other pollutants, it must do so in the…
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A New Mapping Camera Assembly & More?
Could this be a new way for Google or some other entity to capture images and metadata of the streets and buildings in a community? This module was recently seen strapped to a ski rack on an unmarked mini-SUV in Silicon Valley. It features seven cameras (6 each providing horizontal view with one pointing upwards).…
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Driving Towards Better Goods Delivery Through Automation
Are the milk delivery wagons of 100-years ago and Trailers on Flat Cars (TOFC) good proxies for the future of automation in the transportation of goods? Princeton’s Alain Kornhauser set the stage for the thirteenth session of the Smart Driving Car Summit with this thought-provoking question. Kornhauser was also the moderator for this panel that looked…