Tag: autonomous vehicles

  • The Adjustable High-Beam and More #CES2019

    The Adjustable High-Beam and More #CES2019

    Improving vehicle headlights for people will also improve the ability of autonomous vehicles to navigate the road. Kishore Ahuja, Senior Vice President of North American Light, Inc, discusses and shows how they are creating headlights that dynamically and automatically react to its environment (e.g. automatic brightness/dimming) and adjusts to the contours of the road (swivels…

  • Viodi View – 10/25/19

    Viodi View – 10/25/19

    Listen to the highlights of this newsletter here: https://soundcloud.com/viodi/a-tribute-to-tom-olson-october-25th-viodi-view-newsletter It is the connections with people that ultimately matter in business. This is an unintentional lesson taught by mentor and friend, Tom Olson. In sharing a fun Twitter thread with him last weekend, I had hoped to bring a smile to Tom’s face, by reminding him…

  • Viodi View – 10/07/19

    Viodi View – 10/07/19

    Although it once held great promise and prompted billions of dollars of investment, it could be said that the early exuberance of the potential for the Internet raced ahead of what was economically feasible and came crashing down at the turn of the century. It wasn’t until the widespread deployment of always-on, relatively high-speed broadband…

  • Access to Good Mobility Makes Real Estate Valuable

    Access to Good Mobility Makes Real Estate Valuable

    “People can’t get to the grocery store,” states Yina Moore, former Mayor of Princeton Township, New Jersey. Speaking at the 2019 SmartCarDriving Summit, Moore emphasizes that better mobility options are needed to improve the accessibility of the community. It might be said that transportation is in her blood, as her grandfather started a livery service…

  • 5 Years to the Automobility Tipping Point?

    5 Years to the Automobility Tipping Point?

    The tipping point from automobiles to automobility could happen within five years, predicts Lawrence D. Burns, PH.D., a consultant for Waymo and board member of truck platooning provider Peloton Technology. In short, when the customer value is greater than the market price which is greater than the supplier cost, we will see a tipping point…

  • Are We There Yet? An Overview of the City of San Jose/Daimler Autonomous Vehicle Community Presentation

    Are We There Yet? An Overview of the City of San Jose/Daimler Autonomous Vehicle Community Presentation

    [Disclaimer: This author is Vice President of the WNAC and helped organize the meeting described below. Further commentary on the meeting and autonomous vehicles can be found in the SmartDrivingCar podcast, hosted by Princeton’s Alain Kornhauser and journalist, Fred Fishkin. https://soundcloud.com/smartdrivingcar/smart-driving-cars-episode-121] Are we there yet? This familiar refrain, often asked by children on a long…