Category: Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment
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Innovation Around the Peachtree Corner
With autonomous vehicles of all types and a communications-to-everything infrastructure, Peachtree Corners, Georgia is a vision of the mobility and smart community future. An integral part of this relatively new Georgia community is a city-owned lab, the Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners. Approximately, 8,000 people work and 1,000 people live in the 500-acre boundaries of…
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Making a Dumb Road, Smart #CES2020
Replacing passive lane reflectors with connected devices will transform highways from dumb to smart, promises Sharar Bahiri, Founder, Chairman & CTO of Valerann. Improving highway safety is the driving force behind Valerann’s quest to see their devices installed on highways around the world. An Active Device Instead of a Passive Reflector Their solar-powered units include…
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Tires Built for MaaS & More #CES2020
Jon Kimpel, Executive Director, New Mobility Solution Engineering of Bridgestone, explains how they are designing tires for a world where vehicles last a million miles. The tires of the future won’t use air, will use much less rubber, and will be recyclable. This promises to create a much more sustainable and environmentally-friendly way for the…
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First Packages, Then People – Potential Implications of the Amazon-Zoox Deal
Will package delivery via autonomous vehicles provide a path for those people who can least afford mobility, the so-called mobility disadvantaged? Specifically, does Amazon’s purchase of Zoox hint at a world where the world’s largest online seller becomes the low-cost people mover? And, if so, what are the implications for public spaces, the built environment,…
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Water for the Autonomous Mobility Future
Someone once said something about freshwater being the new oil. From a scarcity and need perspective, water is already much more valuable on a dollar per liter basis than oil. Similar to how oil can be a lubricant for gears, clean water is also going to play an important role in the operation of driverless…
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Telecom Techniques for Autonomous Sensing
A full-stack autonomous sensing platform for ten percent the cost of conventional methods is what Perceptive promises. Their path to this dramatic cost reduction is to apply both principles and components of modern telecommunications. Similar to a modern wireless network, fiber optic cables carry laser and radar signals between small, inexpensive antennas and a central…