Tech

The technology behind robotaxis is quite impressive, yet fraught with problems…

$$$, News, Tech, Untruths

Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League – Epic Embarrassment!

Michael Smith
06/15/24

The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League put on an autonomous F1 "race" recently. The hype was impressive. The results: the slowest and crashiest F1 event ever!

News, Safety, Tech

Interesting Engineering – Driverless cars to evolve traffic lights, white signal could be added

News Republisher
06/7/24
Rev 06/13/24

Interesting Engineering reports on how some researchers are proposing adding a fourth light to traffic signals to help facilitate traffic. Note how this idea does not take into account that there are pedestrians out there.

Lobbying, News, Safety, Tech

Bloomberg – Inside California’s Coming Fight Over Vehicle Speed Limiters

David Zipper
02/5/24
Rev 02/13/24

A discussion between David Zipper and California State Senator Scott Wiener on new legislation to mandate speed regulators on new vehicles. Explains the details on why mandating this simple and already existing technology would greatly improve safety on our roads. Also covers rebuttals to common arguments used against making this safety improvement.