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  • 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…

  • An Eyewitness View of the LVCC Loop – #CES2022

    An Eyewitness View of the LVCC Loop – #CES2022

    One of the CES2022 highlights was under the show floor. The LVCC Loop made its CES debut quietly hauling attendees between the West and Central Halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center. With speeds of up to 40 MPH, it takes approximately two minutes to cover the 1/2 mile journey between the West and Central…

  • Upward Urban & Rural Mobility via Autonomous Mobility

    It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. The picture Selika Josiah Talbott chose for her virtual backdrop at the recent 2021 TRB Annual Automated Road Transportation Symposium sums up the mobility challenges that urban and rural locales face with existing infrastructure, particularly in low-income areas. Joining Talbott on this panel were…

  • Making Driverless Happen – The Road Forward

    Making Driverless Happen – The Road Forward

    “It’s time to hit the start button,” is Fred Fishkin’s succinct way of summarizing the next steps in the Smart Driving Car journey. Fiskin, along with the LA Times’ Russ Mitchell co-produced the final session of the 2021 Smart Driving Car Summit, Making It Happen – Part 2. This 16th and final session in this…

  • The Integrated Driving Sensor – Far, Fast, and Precise

    The Integrated Driving Sensor – Far, Fast, and Precise

    The following YouTube videos and associated descriptions are from a recent interview with Behrooz Rezvani, Founder and CEO of Neural Propulsion Systems. It is clear that NPS is looking beyond the era of human driving, where up to 94% of crashes are caused by human misbehavior/error.  In the driverless era, insurance will shift from insuring…

  • Automated Driving Technologies – Driving Change in Insurance

    Automated Driving Technologies – Driving Change in Insurance

    It is in the insurance industry’s best interest to use automated driving technology to make things safer through crash avoidance, not just crash mitigation. Unlike crash mitigation, crash avoidance saves the insurance company money. This was Alain Kornhauser’s premise for the Smart Driving Car Summit, Incentivizing Through Insurance. The trillion-dollar question is whether the incentives…