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Tag: autonomous vehicles

  • The AI-Driven Intersection

    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…

  • Gadzooks – A Brief View of a Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle

    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…

  • Viodi View – 12/31/25

    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…

  • Solving the Airport’s Last Mile Challenge

    Solving the Airport’s Last Mile Challenge

    At CES 2025, we spoke with Rajeev Ramanth of Blueberry Technology, Ltd. about their innovative solution to a perennial challenge in air travel: unreliable and unpredictable mobility assistance. Their new product, BB Go, is a fully autonomous personal vehicle designed to transform the travel experience for mobility-challenged passengers. The Problem: A Costly, Transactional, and Stressful…

  • Viodi View – 07/27/25

    Viodi View – 07/27/25

    Going to an amusement park is a summertime thrill for kids. It was fun to have that feeling again a few weeks ago, as Waymo delivered the back to the future experience that Viodi wrote about some 11 years ago. Read more about this summer highlight below, in the Korner. Thanks to the Broadband Forum, my…

  • Automated Inspection for a World of Flying Robots [and those on the ground]

    Automated Inspection for a World of Flying Robots [and those on the ground]

    Recent headlines about outdated U.S. Air Traffic Control technologies have raised concerns about the scalability of automated flights, from drones to electric aircraft carrying passengers. However, these challenges are not insurmountable. The FAA, NASA, and industry leaders are actively developing procedures and regulations to manage a sky teeming with flying robots. Amid this transformation, one…