Reference article — German Court Overrules “Tesla Autopilot” Marketing Ban — https://cleantechnica.com/2022/08/14/german-court-overrules-tesla-autopilot-marketing-ban/ A German court decided Tesla puts out enough information to offset the public being misled by the “Autopilot” feature name and marketing. The article I referenced mentions both sides but comes up way short by not mentioning Elon…

Five years ago, I stated I was against the development and test method being used by the industry for developing and testing autonomous vehicles was untenable from a safety, time and cost perspective. One can simply not spend the time, money, or lives required to get anywhere near driverless or…

Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, the former CEO of Starsky Robotics, has a new company called Polymath Robotics. That company creates “Plug & play autonomy for industrial vehicles”. This is massive use case and engineering approach shift from what Starsky Robotics was trying to do. The key aspect to this conversion is that…

Motional release — https://motional.com/news/motional-and-lyft-to-launch-fully-driverless-ride-hail-service-in-las-vegas-in-2023-will-mark-first-city-in-multimarket-deployment?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_campaign=alwayson First Waymo, then Cruise and now Motional announce they are fully driverless with zero meaningful proof or even stating if they are even as good as a human. To include crash and edge cases.

In the past month or so Cruise has been in the press quite a bit regarding several issues. They had 60 vehicles stalled in the streets as they were caught lying about being “driverless” when their remote operated systems lost their network connection · https://www.wired.com/story/cruises-robot-car-outages/ They have whistleblower who says…

In January of 2021 I started my voluntary efforts to assist USDOT VOICES (Virtual Open Innovation Collaboration Environment for Safety). The following is from their white paper “The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) has initiated the Virtual Open Innovation Collaborative Environment for Safety (VOICES) proof of concept (PoC) project…

In the past few weeks, we have seen quite a few inadvertent disclosures from Cruise. I say inadvertent because they, like every other driverless vehicle maker in the US, avoids providing any significant performance data beyond that which is massages. They, like the rest, benefit from the lawsuit Waymo won…

Two reference article Tesla secures multibillion-dollar deal with Samsung for new cameras for self-driving — https://electrek.co/2022/06/10/tesla-secures-billion-deal-samsung-new-cameras-self-driving/ Tesla files to use a new radar and everyone is confused — https://electrek.co/2022/06/08/tesla-files-use-new-radar-confused/ The system needs significantly improves cameras AND a much better radar than it had before? (Likely an imaging radar). Prior to…

Reference article — California Greenlights Nation’s First Driverless Taxi Fleet — https://gizmodo.com/cruise-self-driving-cars-approved-california-1849016216 A little while back I wrote the following article on Cruise declaring they had “driverless” vehicles in San Francisco. And how no proof the systems are “driverless’ or l4 are provided. Cruise, like Waymo, now says they are…