By John R. Quain
- Oct 25, 2019
What Autonomous Cars Can't See Can Hurt You
In a year when the autonomous vehicle business has hit a big reset button, consensus is growing among designers that self-driving cars...
By John R. Quain
- Oct 11, 2019
Best Electric Cars, Dyson Won't Be One of Them
Vacuum maker Dyson abandoned its efforts to enter the electric car market this week. Unable to find a way to make it "commercially...
By John R. Quain
- Sep 20, 2019
Amazon Bets on EVs
Electric vehicles--and Ford-backed Rivian in particular--got another kick in the collective rear bumper this week, thanks to Amazon....
By John R. Quain
- Sep 10, 2019
What GM's Adoption of Google's Android Really Means
The fight for the dashboard has been an ongoing software battle for more than a decade. But in recent years, it has lost much of its...
By John R. Quain
- Jul 31, 2019
Is Parking the First Task to Go Autonomous?
Last week's announcement that Bosch and Mercedes-Benz would begin the first government approved deployment of a fully-autonomous driving...
By John R. Quain
- Jul 22, 2019
Autonomous Shuttles: The Trouble With Pedestrians
Last week, a Navya self-driving shuttle in a residential Vienna neighborhood bumped into a pedestrian. The female walker reportedly...
By John R. Quain
- Jul 12, 2019
The Great Race to Autonomy: Ford, VW Tighten Partnerships
Ford and Volkswagen confirmed what many have argued for some time: the future of transportation will be electric and autonomous--and it's...
By John R. Quain
- Jun 28, 2019
Annals of Micromobility: E-Scooter Insurance
E-scooters--it's all fun and games until you fall off and hurt yourself--or someone else. Many people have opined about what happens to...
By John R. Quain
- Jun 18, 2019
Traffic Fatalities Hold Steady
Ending traffic fatalities is the ultimate goal of autonomous vehicle developers. So every year that the introduction of self-driving cars...
By John R. Quain
- May 28, 2019
Waymo Out West: Horse Hockey
Classification is what folks in the autonomous car business call the process of correctly identifying objects, people, cars, and trucks...
