Category Archives: LiDAR

Why I think an Autonomous Vehicle Won’t Be Able to Reliably Guess Where a Pedestrian Will Go

In 2016, Volvo ‘promised’ that we would have ‘Deathproof Cars’ by 2020. That’s next year! You may also recall that about this time last year, an Autonomous Uber Volvo crashed and killed a pedestrian. According to the NTSB the car … Continue reading

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Tesla Alerts Driver of Impending Crash

This is the first time I have seen a domestic crash warning in action in a normal car, not a test track or artificial situation. These people were driving in the Netherlands when they heard an incongruous little beep. Hopefully they … Continue reading

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The Clever Way Ford’s Self-Driving Cars Navigate in Snow

There are a few tricky problems to solve before we can all let go of the wheel. One of those is how autonomous cars respond to bad weather. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.wired.com What does this mean? Is Ford going … Continue reading

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GPS turns 20 years old this week – 9NEWS.com

Today GPS is enabling us to have discussions about driverless and autonomous cars, about drones and prepare for technologies we haven’t even thought of. It is creating new jobs and products that don’t even have names yet, but could be commonplace in 2-5 years. Continue reading

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