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

To Own or to Use Driverless, That Is the Question

To paraphrase Shakespeare, to own or to use, that will be the question in a driverless world. This question was an underlying theme of the latest Smart Driving Car Summit, Who Will Build, Sell and Maintain Driverless Cars? With a collective experience of 150+ years of automotive industry experience, this panel, led by the Dispatcher’s […]

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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

Self Driving versus Driverless – A Mobility Update with Alain Kornhauser #CES2107

Driverless is like an elevator, explains Princeton Professor, Dr. Alain Kornhauser, in the above interview filmed at International CES2107. The difference between driverless and self-driving is that self-driving allows human involvement in the operation of the car (e.g. it has a steering wheel). His explanation simplifies the multiple levels of autonomous operation, as defined by SAE (see […]

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Viodi View – 02/26/16

What do set-tops, wireless and Silicon Valley have in common? Besides being referenced in today’s Viodi View, they also represent opportunity in one form or another to one group or another. More or Less Competition from FCC’s Approved “Open” Set Top Box Proposal? by Alan Weissberger On Feb 18, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) narrowly approved a […]

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Viodi View – 05/22/15

IPv6 – Is There a Better Way? by Abraham Chen  Late last year, we published an article that drew parallels between the early days of broadband and where we stand today with the autonomous vehicle. That article triggered Abraham Chen to ponder the similarities between Internet Protocol addressing and telephone network numbering. Since then, this MIT graduate […]