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…

Reference article — US has over 750 complaints of Teslas braking for no reason https://apnews.com/article/technology-politics-health-cd1a51e26baa07678de50cab8ae90ee0 NHTSA is now looking into Tesla “phantom braking”. (Where the vehicle brakes for no reason. A false positive.) With over 750 customer complaints. (Odds are that is a small fraction of the real number for…

Article reference — Apple Car Director Leaves the Company After Seven Months (Former Tesla Autopilot director Christopher “CJ” Moore is now a former Apple car director as well.) — https://jalopnik.com/apple-car-director-leaves-the-company-after-seven-month-1848977927 CJ Moore was the software lead for Tesla’s “Autopilot”. Then he left to go to head Apple’s autonomy efforts at…

I just finished watching the documentary “Crash Course” on Tesla’s “autopilot” and Full Self Driving”. I am glad the documentary was made. And it likely opened some people’s eyes. But it not only fell well short, it could have avoided that easily. The reporters and film makers did little actual…

Here is the announcement — https://www.argo.ai/company-news/argo-ai-begins-driverless-vehicle-operations-in-miami-austin/ The key misleading hype Working with TÜV SÜD, a world-leading safety organization In the preparation for operations of driverless test vehicles, Argo measured autonomy performance and safety requirements against industry best practices. Argo then proactively approached TÜV SÜD, a world-leading independent technical service provider…

Facilitated by an inoculation from Dr. FAA The FAA has altered course regarding the procedures eVTOL makers will use to certify their aircraft. The word on the street is the Joby crash, which follows the 737 MAX MCAS debacle, put a little fear of a higher power in them. This…

The link to the YouTube video — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHyOL_vDQMQ This is very well done. And Tesla is a nightmare. However, Mahmood is severely compromised here. He is trying to split hairs so Tesla is guilty/incompetent and everyone else is innocent/competent. When the truth is they ALL use the same basic untenable…

Here is the link — https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12152-Automated-cars-technical-specifications_en Where we in the US not only have ZERO laws or standards for a driverless system to be properly certified or licensed, the EU just put out a pretty good draft. And we not only have no standard we allow the AV maker to…

Yet another cosmic timing miracle in the autonomous vehicle industry has occurred. Companies are now becoming “fully driverless” L4 one after another. Interesting how when one announces a supposed breakthrough or advancement, the competition announces the same thing soon after. In this case it’s Waymo, Gatik, Cruise and most recently…