GM has no immediate plans to sell the Bolt AV to individual customers, according to the source
Read the full article at: safecarnews.com
Moral Machine
This calls for not just a clearer understanding of how humans make such choices, but also a clearer understanding of how humans perceive machine intelligence making such choices.
Read the full article at: moralmachine.mit.edu
This ends up looking silly, that machines are going to learn morals from people that choose to play a game. Morality is something that does not transfer by bits. https://youtu.be/XCO8ET66xE4
The GENIVI Alliance and the Open Connectivity Foundation to co-develop open standards for vehicle connectivity and vehicle data exchange | Telematics Wire
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“OCF believes in technology partnerships that will help drive our vision of ensuring secure interoperability for consumers and business, across multiple industry verticals,” said Joonho Park, executive director of OCF.
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Now that the question over Linux in the car is YES, GENIVI is moving on to big data for cars and IoT!
Autonomous drive by 2020: Over-promised, under-delivered?
What original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are overlooking is that Silicon Valley might know how to develop technology solutions quickly, but sometimes at the expense of reliability.
Read the full article at: embedded-computing.com
Cars are proven to be much more capital intensive and complex to produce in volumes than phones and PC’s. Both industries can learn from each other with great respect for the challenges.
Scandalous Details About Chris Urmson’s Secretive Aurora Project Leak from Tesla Lawsuit
These acquihires led former Google Self-Driving Car Project lead Sebastian Thrun to comment that the going rate for self-driving talent is $10 million per person.
Read the full article at: www.driverless.id
Please don’t tell me all this excitement about self-driving cars is based on a few bright souls making millions on their brains! Could the whole auto industry be fooled?
Why Morgan Stanley is talking down autonomous car expectations | FT Alphaville
In fact, it’s a time-frame so firmly emblazoned on the minds of tech people, no reporter dares even question it. And yet, there is cursory evidence to suggest the real hurdle to fully autonomous vehicle penetration isn’t technical as much as it is social, economic and political.
Read the full article at: ftalphaville.ft.com
2020 will come and go, but will cars be any safer?
Ford and Toyota launch consortium to help developers build in-car apps
When Ford first open-sourced SmartDeviceLink, it donated the technology to the GENIVI Alliance. If you look at the GENIVI Alliance’s homepage today, though, you won’t find Ford or Toyota as members. “Previously, GENIVI may not have been the most neutral body in the world,” David Hatton, Ford’s global manager of mobile application, told me when I asked about what happened
Read the full article at: techcrunch.com
Who ever said open source was neutral? It’s another form of good business – open.
Toyota Plans Years of Building Cars Largely Controlled by Humans
“It was a surprisingly sober and realistic view of the challenges that autonomous vehicles face,’’ said Mike Dovorany, an analyst at The Carlab, a vehicle development consultancy in Orange, California. “I give them kudos.’’
Read the full article at: www.bloomberg.com
It takes some guts to admit the truth.
Dedicated Driverless Lane Between Vancouver and Seattle Pitched by US VC Group
Initially self-drive cars would be able to share the car share lanes, which are commonplace throughout North America. Given that the I-5 has a minimum of eight lanes and in some places has 10, this stage of the project could begin almost immediately. Gradually these lanes would be handed over completely to self-drive cars. The final, and most radical, proposals which would see human motorists banned completely could be introduced in 10 to 15 years time
Read the full article at: safecarnews.com
Humans are nearly banned from the car-share lanes already, since most people drive alone.
Renesas Electronics Corporation has develops a circuit technology dedicated for motor control that realizes green vehicles satisfying stricter automotive CO2 emissions requirements | Telematics Wire
“This means that the entire CPU load previously required for the above processing is eliminated, and the CPU capacity freed up in this way can now be allocated to software containing advanced control algorithms designed to boost energy efficiency.”
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