How Danny Shapiro, are sceptical: “The connectivity is something I’m not sure I’d like to rely on for any kind of collisions avoidance system,”

Source: www.pcauthority.com.au

How many of your friends own an Audi? It seems the mass quantity of cars need to be part of this, not just the premium segment. Also, will they learn from their mistakes on the road or on a closed track? I prefer field testing.

remote OTA upgrades will save automakers $35 billion by 2022

Source: movimentogroup.com

It still feels like only Tesla is part of the OTA deployments, must be many others coming on 7 years later. (scratching head)

The tech is ready, but the OEMs are not.

first time they will be unleashed for driving 70 miles per hour along twisty, though clearly marked, highways for long stretches. (Other manufacturers like Volvo and Mercedes-Benz recently introduced their own semiautonomous features, but limit the functions to lower speeds

Source: www.nytimes.com

I guess this is called Level 2 autonomous, a big leap to level 3 and then level 4, but impressive that Tesla has trumped the European teams. Like soccer, they will not like this to have the Americans winning so expect a fast comeback in the media. This is global capitalism at work.

Tesla’s Autopilot ventures beyond the Mercedes-Benz S-class Intelligent Drive in three areas: it will control your direction of travel for miles on end versus the Benz’s 11 seconds, with no hand contact on the steering wheel; it executes lane changes on command; and it provides automatic parallel parking when conditions permit.

Source: blog.caranddriver.com

If Apple ever builds a real car, it will be a Tesla. My friend has one, I hope he gets the update to autopilot OTA.

“We want people to be quite careful at first,” Chief Executive Elon Musk said at a news conference at Tesla’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.

Source: safecarnews.com

Autonomous driving (in limited conditions) for $2500? It shows what building in the future requirements can do for you. Tesla deserves a “star” for this accomplishment. All the tech is there for this level of safer and more convenient driving, it simply needs software and many customers will pay for that ($150M revenue to Tesla).

ST and Autotalks began co-developing their advanced chipset for V2X in 2014, combining resources to deliver a superior-performing solution within a short timeframe.

Source: safecarnews.com

Suddenly the V2X market is getting hot, seem everyone is getting into the game. This is good, it has taken a decade to get here. We’ll see who the winners will be pretty soon.

Renesas will expand the scope of these vehicles going forward to integrate cockpit, HMI, safety, security and powertrain platforms.

Source: safecarnews.com

Renesas stands apart from others in this space as they already ship 720M production ECUs to the automotive industry and already deeply involved in functional safety and ISO 26262 ASIL D. Also by opening the vehicle and forward moving engineering, the industry can move much faster and key on software development and testing that is completely essential to get to highly automated driving and autonomous. Even the V2X technology is supported using Harbrick’s PolySync OS that fuses with all the other sensors in the car.

One option for making auto software safer is to open it to public scrutiny. While this might sound counterintuitive, some experts say that if automakers were forced to open up their source code, many interested people — including coding experts and academics — could search for bugs and vulnerabilities. Automakers, not surprisingly, have resisted this idea.

Source: www.nytimes.com

So much news and scary events lately may help automakers see the value of opening up. They’ve already accepted Open Source software via Linux in IVI, which can potentially be the most secure due to the many eyeballs on the code.

Please restart your car in safe mode

Source: blogs.mcafee.com

Obviously you car should always be in safe mode, and it will require additional security as well as ASIL tech to do so. Who will master that market? We won’t know for years.

A survey by the University of Iowa Public Policy Center’s Transportation and Vehicle Safety program found car buyers are unaware of the latest safety tech.

Source: www.cthreereport.com

Ideally they would not ever be aware of it until a near accident comes up. However, the consumer needs to know what they are paying for since early adopters will pay the most.