Tag: autonomous vehicles
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Artists, Accessibility and Autonomous Vehicles – Part 2 #AVS18
A long-time proponent of autonomous taxis, Princeton Professor Dr Alain Kornhauser discusses a potential downside for this future mobility as a service offering. Speaking at the AVS18 Symposium, Kornhauser warns that operators will need to account for how people treat property they don’t own. In the above video, he provides many examples of graffiti-covered public…
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The Elevator Pitch – Share the Road, Share a Ride
Share a ride in the same way that an elevator is shared is Dr. Alain Kornhauser’s plea in above interview filmed at the AVS18 conference. Further, in a recent SmartDrivingCar podcast with Fred Fishkin, Kornhauser calculated that with the 80,000+ vehicles Waymo has on order, they could be providing 4 million rides per day within…
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A New Kind of Transit Agency #SmartDrivingCar
If the highest market capitalization lodging company doesn’t own hotels, then does it follow that transit agencies will always need to own buses? In the above interview, filmed at the 2018 SmartDrivingCar Summit at Princeton, Bern Grush, co-author of The End of Driving, discusses how technology is allowing transits agencies to examine how to best achieve…
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Autonomous Vehicles – Augmentation or Replacement? #SmartDrivingCar
Will autonomy augment or replace the human? Author, angel investor and Cannonball Run record holder, Alex Roy, addresses this question in the above interview, filmed at the 2018 SmartDrivingCar Summit. As the founder of Human Driving Association, his view echos that of car designer and futurist Michael Robinson in that the automation features must improve…
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Viodi View – 07/09/18
Sometimes the most lasting memory from a family vacation comes from an unplanned activity. One wouldn’t expect a brief stop at a rural gas station to create such a memory. Read more in the Korner, below, about the convenience/gas station that became a highlight of a summer trip to the Lone Star State. Sorry big…
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The Truckers of Tomorrow #GTC18
Better utilization of cargo space is a big part of the business model for Swedish-based, upstart Cargo as a Service (CaaS) company, Einride. By eliminating the cab and associated driver and placing the electric powertrain and associated batteries under the cargo, almost 100% of the Einride T-Pod is available for payload. This efficiency manifests in…