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Viodi View – 01/21/23

From a personal perspective, the most memorable part of CES2023 was spending the week with Dr. Alain Kornhauser and Dr. Elizabeth Monroe. Princeton Professor Kornhauser brings his perspective to several of the Viodi interviews at CES2023 as seen below. One of the highlights was our ride in a teleoperated (look ma, no hands) rental car […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment CES2023

Envisioning a Future of Mobility Diversity and Versatility

Will 2030 be the year we see in-route drone deliveries to living spaces on wheels? Will we see new forms of entertainment, such as mobile karaoke bars? By the year 2030, will it be possible for a person to secure his electric-assist wheelchair in a shared, electric autonomous vehicle without assistance? These are just some […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Smart Driving Car Summit

Removing Roadblocks for Others – Stephen Still

Stephen Still’s memorial to Heyward Patterson at the 5th Annual SmartDrivingCars Summit provided a tragic example of why better mobility options are needed for the people in countless neighborhoods and regions of the U.S. As background, Heyward Patterson was the so-called jitney driver providing rides to the grocery store for people in Buffalo without a […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment

Orchestrating Multiple Transportation Modes in Boring Places and Familiar Streets, Paths, & Sidewalks

Transportation and communications networks are really one and the same. Instead of transporting invisible bits like telecom, mobility networks have to carry bottoms and boxes. Another parallel between these two types of networks is the need for orchestration to manage the different types of traffic and, potentially, different service providers.1 In the above interview, Bern […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment

Autonomous Shuttle Pilots in Europe, AMD Aspirations in Austin

Comprising an area approximately twice the size of New Jersey, the Netherlands punches above its weight, to use a boxing metaphor, in the piloting and implementation of autonomous vehicles. This is one takeaway from the recent TU-Delft webinar, Deployment potential of automated minibuses for first/last mile transport.  Professor Bart van Arem explains that TU-Delft’s mission […]

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