Tag: self-driving car
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Paving the Way to an Autonomous Future
Apollo 11 is a distant memory in the rear view mirror of life for those old enough to remember the glory days of America’s space program. It was a privilege then to meet someone who was involved with that historic program. Space, however, was not the final frontier for Dr. Alain Kornhauser, a Princeton Professor of Operations…
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A Proposal for an Autonomous Vehicle Mobile Laboratory
Transforming stupid cars into smart cars is the endgame of the Mobile Autonomous Automobile Laboratory (MAAL) project. In his presentation, renowned car designer, Michael Robinson outlines plans for creating a platform that will enable vehicle designers to move from designing objects to designing experiences. The first 30 minutes of his presentation discuss the challenges that…
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Autonomous Vehicle View – 11/03/14
[Note: This is a biweekly round-up of some of the articles on autonomous vehicles that elicited commentary from this author. Note, with all the buzz about autonomous vehicles, this list isn’t comprehensive.] Riding my bike yesterday in a neighborhood bypassed by the relatively new wealth generated by the tech companies of Silicon Valley, I spotted an…
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Autonomous Vehicle View – 10/17/14 – Blurred Lines
Michael Robinson’s Vision of How the Cloud and Autonomous Vehicles Will Change Everything The cloud is blurring the lines between things that were once disparate. This was the high-level message provided by renowned automobile designer, Michael Robinson, as he gave his vision of the future at the Belron 2014 conference. With 24,000 employees, Belron is the world’s…
