by aieg | Mar 26, 2018 | News
It’s time to curb the enthusiasm around self-driving cars. After an Uber test vehicle operating in autonomous mode struck and killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Ariz., on the night of March 18, manufacturers, suppliers and regulators have been forced...
by aieg | Mar 23, 2018 | News
HERE’S THE STRANGE thing about where I live: When I walk outside my office, down to the busy, honk-filled four-lane road that runs by it, I’m immediately part of a wide scale science experiment. A lot of us are, here in San Francisco, in metro Phoenix, Arizona, in...
by aieg | Mar 23, 2018 | News
The fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car cranks up pressure on the self-driving vehicle industry to prove its software and sensors are safe in the absence of strong government standards, experts in the field said. Automakers including General Motors Co...
by aieg | Mar 23, 2018 | News
Last August, I was a passenger in an autonomous Uber in downtown Pittsburgh in the same type of Volvo XC90 crossover with the same hardware as in the one that struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, on Sunday night. As the Volvo I was in headed down a...
by aieg | Mar 19, 2018 | News
Uber has removed its self-driving cars from the roads following what is believed to be the first fatality involving a fully autonomous car. A self-driving Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, Sunday night, according to the Tempe police. The...
by aieg | Mar 19, 2018 | News
Self-driving cars are still working to master the snow. It turns out that flare-ups on the sun can also pose a problem for the coming wave of robot drivers. The threat comes from solar storms, those occasional eruptions of vast amounts of energy that can cause a...
