Cities are complex ecosystems, even smaller ones like Ann Arbor, Michigan. They have a higher density of local residents than suburban and exurban regions, a number that can grow substantially thanks to workday commuters. All of this makes getting…

Autonomous Vehicles
Carsharing
Fuel Efficiency and Emerging Technologies
Transportation Efficiencies
Time may heal all wounds, but for the auto industry, not enough time has elapsed yet to forget the pain caused by the 2008 financial meltdown. With…

Transportation Efficiencies
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Automated Vehicles
Automated Driving
Let’s be absolutely clear about something. As I write these words in October 2017, there are exactly zero self-driving vehicles available for…

No one ever said the mobility business was going to be easy. Even before the coronavirus outbreak, there were many challenges for providers and users. Convincing users that shared mobility is safe has become more challenging for the post-pandemic…

I completed my sixth journey in 12 years to Las Vegas, Nevada for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). CES is one of the world’s largest trade shows and an event that has become inextricably linked to automated driving. On each trip I've sampled the…

In March 2018, Elaine Herzeberg became the first victim of an automated driving (AD) test vehicle when she was struck and killed by one of Uber’s development vehicles as she crossed a street in Tempe, Arizona. In November 2019, the National…

A decade ago, the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? chronicled General Motors' (GM’s) decision to repossess all of the existing EV1s from the small but loyal group of customers that had been leasing the pioneering battery electric vehicle…

Convincing consumers to step up to pay a premium for a battery EV (BEV) has been one of the biggest marketing challenges of the past decade, especially in the US. Car dealers selling conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles are often…

Over its 40+ year history, Apple has gone from being a pioneer of personal computing to one of the world’s leading purveyors of mobile phones, with stops along the way to change the nature of human machine interaction and upend the music industry.…

Developing a new high volume vehicle and bringing it to production is generally about a $1 billion investment, if you don’t have to build an entirely new factory as well. Add in the changes required to make the shift from internal combustion to…