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Viodi View – 02/10/21

Broadband allows for the transmission of people’s thoughts, images, and voice, while transportation adds a physical presence. Obvious as this may be, it was the recent FCC filing by the United Spinal Association (U.S.A.) that made it clear how important broadband is in complementing the U.S. transportation system. Paraphrasing the U.S.A., broadband helps level the […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Smart Driving Car Summit

A Culture of Safety Is AV Table Stakes

Building a culture of safety is a prerequisite to building an autonomous vehicle. That’s one conclusion from the insightful Smart Driving Car Summit panel, Safe Enough in the Operational Design Domain. The moderator for this panel, Marjory Blumenthal Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation is well versed in this topic, having recently published two reports on […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Smart Driving Car Summit

A Tipping Point or a Fork in the Road

The hypothesis is that that pandemic has forever changed the way we live, work, play, and, most importantly interact, says Dr. Reggie Caudill, Dean Emeritus Martin Tuchman School of Management, NJIT. In making this statement, Caudill set the stage for the latest Smart Car Summit panel on autonomous mobility, At the Tipping Point, for which […]

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Autonomy for All Ages

Ensuring accessibility to mobility, regardless of ability or age, was a major theme of the 2019 SmartDrivingCars Summit. Reinforcing this idea, Aditya Belwadi, an attendee at the conference, spoke about the importance of designing autonomous vehicles for children. As a Chair for the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM, Belwaldi brings credibility to […]

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Autonomous Vehicles, New Mobility & the Built Environment Viodi View

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 […]