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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Are robotaxis the future? Or instead, the past?
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Are robotaxis the future? Or instead, the past?
Scouring the news for interesting articles on robotaxis.
Read Moredazeen – MIT study finds huge carbon cost to self-driving cars
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.
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.
New York Times from 1925 – RADIO-DRIVEN AUTO RUNS DOWN ESCORT; Wireless Directs Test Car in Wobbly Course Through Heavy Broadway Traffic. ESCAPES FIRE ENGINE CRASH Defect In Steering Mechanism Blamed for Erratic Action — New Demonstration Planned.
Turns out that companies would simply go ahead and test their incredibly dangerous "autonomous" car technology on public streets, resulting of course in a crash. And this was in 1925!
