Tag: autonomous vehicles
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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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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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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…