“Would a member of the public be comfortable getting into an airplane without a pilot? The short answer is no,” says George Perry, who runs the Air Safety Institute at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA).

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While planes are flown 97% of the time by a computer, that improvement only reduced the pilots needed from 3 to 2. I don’t think many people will get into an Uber with no driver and be confident where they will be taken.

R-Car Starter Kit, including online-available sample application and calibration software which enables system developers to immediately start their development

Read the full article at: telematicswire.net

What is missing is the fact that the kit is also ISO26262 ASIL B out of the box, which enables automakers and suppliers to build safe applications that use the cameras to avoid hazards and crashes.

In five years, the majority of Lyft rides will be done autonomously,” he said.

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

That’s a pretty big leap in “autonomously” means no driver. In five years the consumers will have to change dramatically or this is a prediction from Lyft’s founder that they will have a very small part of the market. 🙂

In August 2008, Obama set a goal of getting 1 million plug-in electric vehicles on the roads by 2015. Only about 520,000 electric cars have been sold in the United States since 2008. There are about 250 million cars and trucks on U.S. roads.

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Here’s proof you can’t force purchases if the products are not desirable. 

Garzik replaces Matt Jones of Jaguar Land Rover

Read the full article at: www.zdnet.com

Open Source development is more organized than most people think, with leadership coming from commercial organizations around the world. Sad to see Matt Jones go and leave no automotive influencers on Linux Foundation’s board.

Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors’ ccOS would incorporate open source software including an open In-vehicle Infotainment (IVI) platform of the GENIVI Alliance

Read the full article at: pulsenews.co.kr

Prominent in high automation is Open Source lately since the amount of code needed is massive, and the collaboration amongst cars on the road will be essential to achieve safety benefits.

Speech-to-text, rated at 3.06, was distracting enough in error-free lab conditions and rated 4 or higher in regular driving conditions. The problem is how error-prone speech-enabled texting can be. Driver anxiety and distraction shot up when they corrected—and driving became secondary.

Read the full article at: www.wsj.com

Sadly, speech recognition costs almost as much mental energy as texting by hand it seems. No wonder we continue to handle the device by hand.

SK Telecom last Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding with Intel to cooperate on developing Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication and deep-learning based video recognition technologies

Read the full article at: safecarnews.com

MOU’s are worth the paper their written on unless the parties signing them have a clear strategy and intention to follow through. What do these companies have to back up their MOU?

The department will be using open source platforms including Linux-based GENIVI for its ccOS

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HKMC has been tracking and participating in the work of GENIVI for many years now. The only way an automaker can develop its own system is to use Open Source as a base and build their value on top.

Apple, Samsung, Google parent Alphabet Inc. and other tech companies are looking to ink supply agreements with auto makers or are developing their own systems for autonomous vehicles and other services.

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Who in the supply chain is left out here? The Tier1s are struggling to find their new profit pool as software is yanked away from them and they follow the smartphone development model, namely lower profit.