Category Archives: Smart Cars

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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Forget the engine – it’s going online that’s driving the car industry

Making sure drivers are ‘connected’ in their cars is now the top priority for world’s top automotive executives Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk I love reading stories about what executives want in their products and in this case what they … Continue reading

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Google will now tell us when its autonomous cars crash – TechnoBuffalo

Connected cars are a great concept. Based on my many visits to Japan, their engineers would suggest though, that the priority for the non-connected cars would be to get better drivers. Continue reading

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