The Autonomous Report: True self-driving cars still 10 years away?
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — March 5, 2017 — This week in the Autonomous Report, we hear from a senior engineer at BMW who says full self-driving cars are at least 10 years away, take a look at the cost of generating highly precise maps, the ongoing troubles of Uber and much, much more! […]
The Autonomous Report: Waymo launches lawsuit and traffic jams may disappear by 2030
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 26, 2017 — This week’s Autonomous Report looks at a lawsuit Waymo has launched against a former employee, the special problems facing a second-hand connected car, Bill Gates’ proposal for a tax on robot labour and much, much more! – Big news in Ontario this week concerning Tesla […]
The Autonomous Report: Roborace pits AVs against each other and the ‘gold rush’ of self-driving data
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 19, 2017 — This week’s Autonomous Report looks at results from the first self-driving auto race, a future where the data a car generates is worth more than the car, Ford’s self-driving test program runs afoul of human boredom and much, much more! – An electric driverless car […]
The Autonomous Report: Canada lags, Israel jumps ahead and we may see a flying car by 2020
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 12, 2017 — Making news in the autonomous vehicle (AV) space this week is a report that Canada is “dead last” in the race towards driverless cars, a new algorithm that may allow AVs to merge seamless with human-controlled traffic, a discussion on how Israel is becoming a […]
The Autonomous Report: California report lists 2,578 AV failures and GM shows off Markham tech centre
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — February 5, 2017 — This week in the autonomous vehicle (AV) space, we look at the 2,578 failures experienced by AVs in California in 2016, GM shows off its Canadian Technical Centre – Markham Campus to members of the Business Council of Canada, the coming age of autonomous shipping and […]
The Autonomous Report: AVs could generate $1 trillion in revenue, but black hat hackers may have a new weapon
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 29, 2017 — News continues to flow from the emerging world of autonomous vehicles (AVs). This week we look into a report by KPMG on the revenue potential of AVs, the nomadic communities of the future, how cars may become the next big weapon for black hat hackers […]
The Autonomous Report: Airbus looks to the skies and Autopilot drops Tesla’s crash rates
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 22, 2017 — Here in early 2017 the automated vehicle (AV) story is emerging as a major new business trend. Make sure to keep up with the latest on this new industrial sector each Monday at collisionrepairmag.com. This week we look into Airbus’ plans to test a self-piloted […]
The Autonomous Report: Waymo’s cars kept offline, taxi drivers fight ‘Uber-ization’ and sensors still have trouble with salt, slush and grime
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 15, 2017 — Here in early 2017 the automated vehicle (AV) story continues to emerge as a major new business story. This week we look into how Waymo’s cars are being kept offline to prevent hacking, a new survey from KPMG that says half of car owners don’t […]
NAIAS: Next year’s hot technology and autonomous vehicles take centre stage
By Barett Poley Detroit, Michigan — January 10, 2017 — The 64th annual North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) is currently underway in Detroit. A few highlights from this year’s show include announcements about the next-generation Toyota Camry and other vehicles, the brand new AutoMobili-D Exposition and the star of the “Cars” movies transition into […]
The Autonomous Report: Developments at the Consumer Electronics Show and Tesla updates Autopilot
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 8, 2017 — This week’s Autonomous Report dives into some of the autonomous vehicle (AV) news coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show, Tesla updates and improves its Autopilot technology, the latest development from the AV project now being tested in Ontario by the University of Waterloo and […]
