7 hours agoI told you Tesla was only the most egregious — BMW driverless vehicle under test kills 1 and injures 9 in GermanyReference article — Germany: 1 dead, 9 injured after test car veers into traffic https://apnews.com/article/technology-germany-8a2333532b91635d5b214485043ed94a?s=09& It appears a driverless BMW under test was involved in a tragic accident. It veered into traffic killing 1 and injuring 9. BMW said the system was L2 and not driverless. …Tesla3 min read
1 day agoGerman court says Tesla “Autopilot” marketing is fine and the dangerous hypocrisy of the “autononwash” movementReference 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…Tesla5 min read
2 days agoThe same folks who now rail against Tesla thought they were a shining star and don’t know or care they are only the worst of the bunchFive 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…Tesla5 min read
4 days agoUse Case shift of ex-Starsky Robotics CEO validates my POVStefan 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…Autonomous Cars3 min read
Aug 5Now Motional states it is “fully driverless” with zero proofMotional 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.Autonomous Cars3 min read
Jul 28Cruise is remote vs “driverless”, has a whistleblower, is experiencing crashes and is losing huge sums of money — They are the tip of the icebergIn 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…Autonomous Cars3 min read
Jul 17USDOT VOICES is a bellwether for the driverless industry’s failureIn 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…Autonomous Cars7 min read
Jul 16Cruise’s mirage is wearing away — Many more to followIn 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…Driverless Cars4 min read
Jun 13Tesla upgrading cameras and putting radar back? I thought the system was enough to get to L4? This is admitting incompetence and negligence, especially to NHTSATwo 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…Tesla3 min read
Jun 6Why is Cruise going the robotaxi route and not providing GM with software to build a “driverless” car? Likely the same reason taxi companies should sue them. A legal loophole to avoid disclosing actual system performance limitations.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…Autonomous Cars3 min read