Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Viodi View – 01/24/26
“Safety First.” This is the mantra for any reputable company. It applies to the protection of staff as well as the operation of a product or service. In the realm of autonomous vehicles, is safety a unique selling proposition or is it a necessary condition? Professor Kornhauser and Michael Sena argue the latter in this…
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The AI-Driven Intersection
Jeff Brandes’ Vision to Make Florida’s Roads Intelligent In the above interview, Jeff Brandes, the former Florida State Senator and current President of the Florida Policy Project provides his view on autonomy and the latest developments seen at CES, where this interview was filmed. Brandes has spent his career looking for the “Big Idea” in…
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Gadzooks – A Brief View of a Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle
TL;DR and Background This is a tough love article, as this author wants to see mobility services like Zoox succeed. That bias started with this 2014 Viodi fictional story about the wide-ranging impact of an affordable, accessible driverless ride-share service. Purpose-built, autonomous electric vehicles, like what Zoox is testing in Las Vegas are central to…
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Reluctant Robots Stuck in Traffic
Should a real-world driving test with a human examiner be required before autonomous vehicles remove the human safety supervisor? That’s the question that came to mind after watching multiple Zoox vehicles navigate the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard (the Strip) and Spring Mountain Road. Filmed on January 6th, 2026, around 6 PM, it was at…
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Viodi View – 12/31/25
This New Year’s Eve addition of the Viodi View offers a glimpse of CES 2026 through some just-published interviews from CES 2025. The topics range from small modular nuclear reactors to devices that assist the visually impaired to on-demand trash pick-up. Interestingly, none of these stories deal with the consumer gadgets and devices that were…
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On-Demand Trash Pick-Up with HARR-E
Imagine never again hauling heavy bins to the curb or waking to the rumble of garbage trucks at dawn. That’s the promise of HARR-E (Hail-able Autonomous Refuse Robot – Electric), an innovative electric robot unveiled at CES 2025 by Oshkosh Corporation’s Pratt Miller division. In a captivating interview with Autonomy Engineer Devin McCulley, the technology’s…