Category: Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment
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Google’s Potential End Game – Transport and Organize the World’s People, Not Just Information
The Year 2040 – Somewhere in Silicon Valley It’s 8:07 am and my next-door neighbor, cheapskate Charlie, has been waiting outside his door for a few minutes for his ride, which is guaranteed to be at his house within a 10 minute window. He looks at his garage and is reminded that he will soon…
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A Vulcan Mind Meld with Professor K.
This video has three parts: 1) Professor Kornhauser’s comments on a podcast that were turned into a video about an autonomous delivery vehicle with a unique way of delivering packages. 2) How AI may eventually be a new form of compression for images and video. 3) How this may eventually lead to the science fiction…
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The Unbundling of the Autonomous Ride: Bringing Privacy to Shared Mobility
Ridesharing revolutionized urban mobility, but it came with a compromise that many passengers never fully accepted: the loss of personal space. Whether it is a chatty driver, a rowdy co-passenger, or simple security concerns, the traditional shared vehicle has always forced a choice between economic efficiency and personal privacy. At CES 2026, a Silicon Valley-based…
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Redefining the Wheel: How s-Drive is Rewriting the Rules of EV Architecture
For years, automotive visionaries have promised that in-wheel motors would completely revolutionize how we design and build electric vehicles. The concept makes perfect sense on paper: place the power directly where the rubber meets the road, clear out the engine bay, and maximize space. Yet, traditional “hub” motors have consistently hit a wall known as…
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Italian Hall of Fame Car Designer Michael Robinson on the Ferrari Luce, Futurism & AI
Will the Luce be the beginning of the end for the iconic Ferrari brand? One is left wondering whether that might be the fate of this iconic Italian vehicle maker after listening to Michael Robinson in the above interview. As background, the British magazine, Magneto, listed Michael at number 31 among the top 50 all-time…
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The Automatic Camera Cleaner for Clear Autonomous Driving
There are generally two camps when it comes to the topic of autonomous vehicle sensing: Camp Fusion believes that fusing multiple sensor types—vision, LiDAR, radar, etc.—is a prerequisite for safety. Members of this camp, such as Zoox and the current iteration of Waymo, argue that sensors like LiDAR and radar provide superhuman perception capabilities that…
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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…