By John R. Quain
Oct 25, 2019
What Autonomous Cars Can't See Can Hurt You
In a year when the autonomous vehicle business has hit a big reset button, consensus is growing among designers that self-driving cars...
By John R. Quain
Oct 11, 2019
Best Electric Cars, Dyson Won't Be One of Them
Vacuum maker Dyson abandoned its efforts to enter the electric car market this week. Unable to find a way to make it "commercially...
By John R. Quain
Sep 20, 2019
Amazon Bets on EVs
Electric vehicles--and Ford-backed Rivian in particular--got another kick in the collective rear bumper this week, thanks to Amazon....
By John R. Quain
Sep 10, 2019
What GM's Adoption of Google's Android Really Means
The fight for the dashboard has been an ongoing software battle for more than a decade. But in recent years, it has lost much of its...
By John R. Quain
Jul 31, 2019
Is Parking the First Task to Go Autonomous?
Last week's announcement that Bosch and Mercedes-Benz would begin the first government approved deployment of a fully-autonomous driving...
By John R. Quain
Jul 22, 2019
Autonomous Shuttles: The Trouble With Pedestrians
Last week, a Navya self-driving shuttle in a residential Vienna neighborhood bumped into a pedestrian. The female walker reportedly...
By John R. Quain
Jul 12, 2019
The Great Race to Autonomy: Ford, VW Tighten Partnerships
Ford and Volkswagen confirmed what many have argued for some time: the future of transportation will be electric and autonomous--and it's...
By John R. Quain
Jun 28, 2019
Annals of Micromobility: E-Scooter Insurance
E-scooters--it's all fun and games until you fall off and hurt yourself--or someone else. Many people have opined about what happens to...
By John R. Quain
Jun 18, 2019
Traffic Fatalities Hold Steady
Ending traffic fatalities is the ultimate goal of autonomous vehicle developers. So every year that the introduction of self-driving cars...
By John R. Quain
May 28, 2019
Waymo Out West: Horse Hockey
Classification is what folks in the autonomous car business call the process of correctly identifying objects, people, cars, and trucks...
