dazeen – MIT study finds huge carbon cost to self-driving cars
dazeen reports on how autonomous vehicles require a large amount of energy just for all the computer processing required
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Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Advocates And Opposition Agree That Full Self-Driving Will At Some Point Randomly Try To Kill You
See full original article and more at DawnProject.com Oh, and Tesla just released it to everyone in North America. With no fanfare, in the middle of the night before Thanksgiving day, when he knew journalists would be on holiday for the next four days, Elon Musk announced on Twitter that Tesla’s Full…
Safety Tests Reveal That Tesla Full Self-Driving Software Will Repeatedly Hit A Child Mannequin In A Stroller
See full original article and more at DawnProject.com The Dawn Project’s latest safety tests reveal that Tesla Full Self-Driving will hit a child mannequin in a stroller. The safety tests were conducted in a public parking lot by The Dawn Project in Santa Barbara, California in October 2022, using the…
Safety Tests Reveal That Tesla Full Self-Driving Software Will Drive Around Stopped School Buses With Their Stop Sign Arm Extended And Lights Flashing
See full original article and more at DawnProject.com The Dawn Project’s latest safety tests reveal that Tesla Full Self-Driving will repeatedly drive around stopped school buses with their stop sign arm extended and lights flashing, and fails to obey school zone speed limits. The safety tests were conducted on public…
New Dawn Project Safety Tests Reveal That Tesla Full Self-Driving Fails To Obey ‘Road Closed’ And ‘Do Not Enter’ Signs
See full original article and more at DawnProject.com New safety tests conducted by The Dawn Project reveal that Tesla Full Self-Driving does not obey ‘Road Closed’ and ‘Do Not Enter’ signs, and finds that Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving software repeatedly ignores these important road safety signs. The safety tests were…
New Dawn Project Safety Tests Reveal Tesla FSD Still Runs Down Child-Sized Mannequins
See full original article and more at DawnProject.com New safety tests conducted by The Dawn Project reveal the dangers Tesla Full Self-Driving poses to child pedestrians, and finds that Elon Musk’s Full Self-Driving software repeatedly runs down child-sized mannequins in its path. The safety tests were conducted in Goleta, California…
TechCrunch – Ford takes $2.7B hit on Argo shutdown, shifts its bet to driver assist tech
Ford shut down Argo, their autonomous vehicle division. They took a $2.7B impairment on their Argo stake, resulting in a quarterly loss.
Cruise turns left and stops right in path of oncoming vehicle resulting in collision
Crash Analysis: on 6/3/2022 a Cruise robotaxi was traveling eastbound on Geary Blvd. At Spruce St the Cruise made a left turn. Before completing the left turn the Cruise stopped in the path of an oncoming car, resulting in a collision. Cruise was very misleading about the cause of the crash.
Bloomberg – Tesla Autopilot Stirs U.S. Alarm as ‘Disaster Waiting to Happen’
Bloomberg reports on the dangers of Tesla Auto Pilot. Includes information on crashes where there were fatalities, and the resulting federal investigations.
SF Standard – Willie Brown, Former SF Mayor, Cruises Around Town in a Driverless Car
Article from SF Standard by Michaela Necille. Announces the commercial for Cruise that former Mayor Willie Brown, the consummate political insider, was paid for.
Autonomous Vehicle Myths: The Dirty Dozen
Philip Koopman, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, is an important leader in the safety of autonomous vehicles. His extensive writings at Safe Autonomy are a must read. This article is on the many myths that AV companies have been using to promote their vehicles.
General Motors, 1956 – Key to the Future
A great film from the 1956 GM Motorama Exhibit that shows how we will have driverless cars, and lots of other Futurama, in 1976! And with some great music that you can sing along to.
