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Assess the cyber risks before you go driverless
As autonomous vehicles edge ever closer to market, the need to ensure adequate protection from cyber-security risks is a pressing concern for developers. So TU-Automotive went in search of the expert...
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Tested: Honda revved up for an IoT adventure?
SUVs have been a huge driver of new car sales globally in recent years and, unsurprisingly, the rarefied world of motorcycles has followed suit with the two-wheel equivalent Adventure bikes.This sector...
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Tested: Ford’s Fiesta Vignale may point the way to driverless adoption
We have heard much from connected car executives at Ford about how the volume manufacturer can ‘democratise’ new technology by bringing it to the mass market (Ford will woo consumers with...
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Guinea-pig testing casts a ‘shadow’ over driverless tech
Several US states have already taken the plunge at legalising autonomous vehicle testing and look set to extend this to fully supporting the auto industry’s drive towards mass market adopting of the...
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Video: It’s tough to be driverless in the city, says HERE
Primary Event: TU-Automotive Detroit 2018YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_referrer=watch&video_id=oeHK5b_hcasChannels: Autonomous CarTags: TU-Automotive Europe 2017Précis: Urban...
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Robots will make fatal mistakes, Continental concedes
People killed by autonomous vehicles are an inevitable price to pay for a Vision Zero future.That’s the admission made by Dr Elmar Degenhart, chief executive officer and executive board member of...
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Lincoln will not overwhelm consumers with new tech
Carmakers will have to think long and hard over how they implement future technologies to guard against ‘overwhelming’ consumers.That’s the opinion of Molly Cosgrove brand manager Lincoln Navigator who...
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Human bad, robot good… discuss
Driving is one of the most complex tasks a human can perform but it is often reduced to a simplistic act that a computer will eventually replace. To be certain, driverless cars are coming. While they...
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Current driverless tech inadequate, says Great Wall
Driverless technology sounds great on paper but automakers might find it difficult to meet their pie-in-the-sky expectations for imminent deployment.Mark Crawford, chief engineer of autonomous driving...
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Swotting up on autonomous
Fittingly for technology that has required vast amounts of brainpower and research, autonomous driving has established a foothold in academia. This school term, a pair of self-driving shuttle buses...
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Driverless consumers to suck-it-and-see
The autonomous driving future is an exciting prospect for many of us but perhaps not the majority. Recent studies conducted by a variety of organisations indicate that quite a few people fear complete...
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Tested: Plugged into the luxury of DS 7 Crossback
DS is making a pitch to be seen as a standalone luxury brand in its own right and not just a sub-brand of Citroën the builder of one of automotive’s enduring icons, the Citroën DS of the last...
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Proven driverless tech is a billion miles away, says Hyundai
There are several doomsday theorists who are afraid of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to overthrow the planet but cars will have to learn to drive themselves before AI can threaten...
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Levelling the driverless playground dream
No technological path is straight and smooth and this is especially applicable to assisted and autonomous driving. Recent examples of missteps abound – the Uber death crash in Arizona, the...
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Driverless, sooner rather than later?
It seems counter-intuitive, perhaps even scary. A number of people and organisations involved in the push towards autonomous driving have stated that the best way forward is to put self-driving cars on...
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Autonomous-as-a-service will boost adoption
“Dramatic benefits that are expected to be reaped by society because of the advent of autonomous vehicles (AVs) have a big caveat which assumes a 50% to even a 90% usage penetration of autonomous...
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Ford launches its ‘bridge’ to a driverless future
In recent years carmakers have become reluctant to claim that ‘this is the best car ever built’ in a consumer market much more sophisticated and informed than it was before access to the wealth of data...
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Smart infrastructure may be the cheapest driverless option
For all the talk of LiDAR, radar and connectivity in self-driving vehicles, little has been said regarding how the expense of these features could influence widespread adoption. Will carmakers favour...
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Ducati to bring ADAS to bikers
Italian motor cycle manufacturer Ducati is entering the field of sophisticated ADAS with plans to build bikes boasting radar monitoring front and rear in the next two years.The Bologna factory says it...
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LCVs can be at forefront of autonomy, says Citroën
While much has been debated about personal consumer vehicle autonomy, adoption of the technology will, most likely, follow the money into commercial vehicle transportation.Citroën’s LCV head of...
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Big opportunities in driverless for the big suppliers
Despite running into unexpected roadblocks, some believe the development of the self-driving car is moving into top gear. While, for example, Volvo has significantly scaled back its Drive Me autonomous...
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Hey Bot, what do you know about reasonable driving behaviour?
It’s a science-fiction trope as old as the genre itself – a sentient machine (robot, spacecraft, Skynet, etc.) seizes power, and begins to make life miserable for the humans at its mercy. A hero must...
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Getting regulators on the driverless bus
In our article Guinea-pig testing casts a ‘shadow’ over driverless tech we discussed the challenges of autonomous vehicle testing and how to support the auto industry’s drive towards mass market...
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Fleets could spearhead driverless revolution
In the future, certain autonomous vehicle manufacturers might cut the passenger out of the equation, at least to some extent. A clutch of companies large and small are currently developing crafts that...
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Data may answer human-machine handoff dilemma
Some think that it's completely unrealistic to expect a human driver to be ready and able to take control from an autonomously driving vehicle when the system encounters something it's not able to...
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Having two ‘drivers’ in a car may never work
A classic problem in auto safety is drowsy driving. Nodding off is all well and good while loitering on the couch or curled up in bed; it’s not so good when operating a vehicle. The coming of autonomy...
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Cost versus performance is LiDAR’s biggest challenge
It’s a small word (technically, acronym) with only five letters. But LiDAR looms very large in the vehicle tech space. In fact, going forward it’s going to be indispensable.Despite the advanced...
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The Disrupters: Some LiDARs could cause blindness, warns Aeye
For all the talk of road safety, you don’t hear many people discuss eye safety when it comes to autonomous vehicles. LiDAR, a key ingredient in many autonomous vehicle plans currently underway, is...
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Visions of bot-friendly consumers
The development of autonomous vehicle technology has suffered more setbacks this year. First, a 49-year-old woman died after being struck by a driverless Uber automobile being tested on a street in...
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Shifting up public acceptance of autonomous tech
Autonomous vehicles and the latest ADAS features may be a tougher sell to the American public than many carmakers and Tier 1s have anticipated. That’s, in part, because public perception about the...
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