GoMentum Station, along with Honda and the City of Concord, showcased Honda’s automated vehicle testing program at GoMentum Station with miles of paved roadway on a 5,000-acre site. The automaker’s second-generation automated development vehicle a
Even though its seems like driverless self-driving cars seem to be in the news daily, most Americans still prefer to drive themselves—at least partially, say University of Michigan researchers. Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak of
Consumer Watchdog asked Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind to “slam the revolving door” with the robot car industry shut with a written commitment that they will not work as an employee
Acura showed the second generation self-driving carn California– a modified version of the RLX Sport Hybrid SH-AWD luxury performance sedan. The RLX has been fitted with a new suite of radar, Lidar, camera and GPS
Mobileye and STMicroelectronics announced that the two companies are co-developing the next (5th ) generation of Mobileye’s SoC, the EyeQ 5, to act as the central computer performing sensor fusion for Fully Autonomous Driving (FAD)
NXP Semiconductors demoed its BlueBox engine for self-driving car using NXP silicon and software solutions at each ADAS node. The system useds BlueBox central computing engine with radar, lidar, and vision sensing, as well as
Audi reports that the Audi A7 piloted driving concept “Jack”, is driving better and shows consideration for other road users. “Jack” exhibits a driving style that is adaptive to the given situation. Many have criticized
It seems like almost every day, there is new announcement about self-driving cars. This week started off with an announcement that Google will buy 100 2017 Chrysler Pacific minivans to test. Today, we learned how
Google will add about 100 new 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans to their self-driving car program by the end of the year. Google is collaborating with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) for a design that allows
Consumer Watchdog today called on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require a steering wheel, brake and accelerator so a human driver can take control of a self-driving robot car when safety demands it
Ford announced that its self-driving Ford Fusion has been driving on lonely desert roads at night with no headlights using high-resolution 3D maps in Whittman, Arizona. The maps are complete with information about the road,
Toyota announced a research center in Ann Arbor, near the University of Michigan (U-M) campus. CEO Dr. Gill Pratt announced the venture at the GPU Technology conference in San Jose. Toyota will fund research in