Automotive Industry
Fuel Efficiency and Emerging Technologies
Transportation Efficiencies
Mobile Apps
Ford
At first glance, the FordPass smartphone app seems like an also ran, a remote control app similar to what other automakers have been making for…
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With Self-Driving Cars, We’re All Cartographers
GPS Systems
Transportation Efficiencies
Urban Mobility
Autonomous Vehicles
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Mapmaking used to be the domain of a select group of cartographers that would gather, review, and plot out data onto sheets of paper. The…
Toyota Concept Truck Points at Commercial Potential of Hydrogen Fuel Cells
At the 2018 Specialty Equipment Market Association Show, Toyota showed off its latest application of hydrogen fuel cell technology: a pizza-baking pickup truck. Based on the full-size Tundra pickup, the Tundra PIE Pro was developed in partnership…
Does Vehicle Automation Need to Overcome the Uncanny Valley to Succeed?
Driver Assistance Systems
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Fuel Efficiency and Emerging Technologies
Transportation Efficiencies
Autonomous Vehicles
In the world of digital animation, there is a concept known as the uncanny valley, which refers to…
With Investment from Ford, Civil Maps Hopes to Turn Every Car into Mapmaker
In general, an autonomous vehicle could drive itself around based only on its sensing systems without having any access to maps. Unfortunately, while such a vehicle might be able to avoid collisions, this would severely limit the overall capabilities…
Maps Transform into Long-Range Sensors for Cars
When I was young, maps were printed on paper, either bound into atlases or large sheets that were a puzzle to refold. We plotted routes to get from where we were to where we wanted to be. In-car electronics were largely limited to the AM/FM radio and…
Could On-Demand Mobility Finally Pave the Way for Vehicle-to-Grid Integration?
A decade ago, when discussion of modern plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) was just getting ramped up again, one of the big potential selling points was the concept of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) integration. For a variety of reasons, it never quite caught…
Google and Fiat Chrysler Team Up to Build New Fleet of Self-Driving Minivans
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
Google
Fuel Efficiency and Emerging Technologies
Transportation Efficiencies
Autonomous Vehicles
For the first time since Google began work on developing autonomous vehicle technology 7 years ago, the company now has an…
Automated Driving at 2018 CES Is All About Business Models
Ten years to the day after my very first ride in the automated Chevrolet Tahoe that won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, I was in Las Vegas yet again for the 2018 International CES. In the very same parking lot where I took my first driverless ride, I…
Monocultures Are Bad for Automated Vehicles
Whether in nature, technology, or business, monocultures are bad. With all the discussion of who is winning the race to get automated driving to market, no one seems to mention the dangers of a monoculture. Many pundits seem to be of the impression…