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Category: Automotive, Self-driving
This past Thursday I encountered this red Ford Fusion on Middlefield Road in Palo Alto. The car had two sensors attached to the top. It looks like these were camera-system that were operating, as light lights went on and off. Here is a video of the car that I took while driving: Any ideas what …
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Category: Automotive, Electric Vehicle, Self-driving
We hear so much about self-driving and electric cars, use ride-sharing all the time, and are excited about the unfolding car revolution. But have you considered working for those companies and be part of making the future? Then wait no longer, here are links to hundreds of open positions in the currently hottest automotive start-ups. …
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Category: Automotive, Self-driving
Seeing Google’s self-driving cars every day in the Bay Area, and sometimes those of GM and other manufacturers, it’s still a rarity to encounter a vehicle from one of the at least three self-driving truck startups. Peloton, Ot.to and Vivify Trucks are the ones based in the Bay Area and finally today I encountered an …
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Category: Self-driving
The former head of Google’s self-driving car division Sebastian Thrun offers an online course for self-driving cars that finishes with an engineering nanodegree. The course introduction says: Self-driving cars are set to revolutionize the way we live. This is transformational technology, on the cutting-edge of robotics, machine learning, software engineering, and mechanical engineering. In this …
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Category: Self-driving
The DMV-website has a couple of reports that it requires companies licensed to test autonomous vehicles on Californian roads to report annually. One is the Autonomous Vehicle Disengagement Report that was the first time due January 1st 2016 reporting all incidents when a the system or a human driver disengages the autonomous mode and takes …
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Category: Behavioral Economics, Self-driving
Pretty they ain’t. And they don’t look like hot rods either. Let’s admit: they are ugly ducklings. I am talking about Google’s self-driving cars. They come in tha shape of an egg on wheels with some funny colors. And Google even seems to emphasize that with putting some funny art on the doors. But why …
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Category: Self-driving
The newest attraction of the highly recommended Computer History Museum in Mountain View in California is one of Google’s self-driving mini-cars. Those have no steering wheel or gas pedals anymore. And why should they? A fully autonomous car of Level 4 does not expect a passenger to take control at any time, except telling the …
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Category: Automotive, Self-driving, Silicon Valley
Without any doubt Silicon Valley leads with the number the self-driving and autonomous car initiatives. Living here since 2001 I every day encounter self-driving cars on the streets in Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and San Francisco. Just this Sunday I encountered a Dodge van with mounted cameras and radar systems on Shoreline Blvd …
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Category: Culture, Design, Self-driving
Is design important for innovation, and if not always, when is it not? A conversation about me spotting the Google self-driving mini-car for the first time in the wild lead to discussion about the right priorities and the importance of design for innovation. Worst car design ever … This was the gut reaction of one …
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Category: Self-driving
Today, I saw the future happening right now. There has been so much talk about the risks and dangers of autonomous cars, mostly from people who have never seen one live, but have an opinion. And then I drive down in Mountain View / Palo Alto along the San Antonio Road and right there is …
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