TV and movie businesses may not seem like the best analogy for the automotive industry and the future of transportation, but if you consider the evolving relationships, there are some fascinating parallels. The relationship between two of the world’s…

At Tesla Autonomy Day in April 2019, CEO Elon Musk tried to demonstrate how the company was going to achieve fully automated driving (AD) capability with a fairly simple and low cost suite of sensors and software. One point made by Musk was that…

The first blog I wrote for Guidehouse Insights, in 2014 was a critique of the auto industry’s approach to cybersecurity. At the time, we were about 6 months away from a 60 Minutes report demonstrating a remote attack on a General Motors (GM) vehicle…

Like Apple, over the years, Tesla has often received credit for innovations that it actually borrowed and popularized, such as using lithium ion batteries for electric cars. However, Tesla deserves credit for innovations such as the electronic…

Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications holds enormous potential to significantly improve traffic flow and road safety well before automated driving becomes ubiquitous—and at a much lower cost. But real-time communications between vehicles,…

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V2X Communications
Mobility Services
Urban Mobility
Urban Innovation
In a February 2019 episode of the Recode Media podcast, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson began his case for 5G connectivity by citing automated vehicles (AVs). It’s…

Adoption of 48V light electrification is beginning to accelerate in Europe with the debut this week of the fourth-generation Audi A8 at an event in Barcelona, Spain. After launching a 48V system on the high performance SQ7 SUV in 2016, the A8 becomes…

As engineers around the world work to make the self-driving car a practical reality, one of the biggest challenges still faced is how to precisely locate where those vehicles are in space at any moment in time. This is especially important in…

In a capitalist economy, companies have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize the returns for their shareholders. That can often be at odds with the general public good. Ideally, political and regulatory leaders can find ways to strike a balance…

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Automated Driving
Automated Driving Systems
Commercial Electric Vehicles
smart cities
As the 2020 coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the globe, businesses of all kind are doing their part to help the containment…