AV Report, June 11th, 2018
Toronto, Ontario — June 11, 2018 — In this weeks AV Report: Calgary gets AV cash, OEMs offer dates on AV launches, Tesla’s Auto Pilot suffers more bad publicity, and much, much more! A flurry of announcements this week from governments and OEMs suggest some timelines for the emergence of self-driving cars onto […]
AV Report: June 4, 2018
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — June 4, 2018 — In this week’s AV Report: Waymo orders thousands more Windsor-built Pacificas, GM Cruise gets an investment from a Singularity believer and much, much more! The size of Waymo’s fleet of self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans continues to expand. Several media outlets reported last week […]
AV Report: May 28, 2018
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 28, 2018 — In this week’s AV Report: the Uber pushback gathers strength, Apple settles for embattled VW, American opinion less supportive of AVs and much, much more! That automated vehicles could soon share the roads with real drivers is an idea that has evolved from […]
AV Report: May 21, 2018
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 21, 2018 — In this week’s AV Report: Ford begins to fall behind in the AV race, GM thinks about post-human-control interiors, glitches in the California test fleet and much, much more! Wall Street analysts following the auto industry are beginning to work the AV story […]
AV Report: May 14, 2018
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 14, 2018 — In this week’s AV Report: The race to launch AVs continues between the top OEMs, car manufacturers have a new nickname and much, much more! One of the world’s premier business-focused newspapers is the Financial Times of London, England. This past week the […]
AV Report: May 9, 2018
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — May 9, 2018 — In this week’s AV Report: The Ontario government announces details of its AV program, ride share data suggests the taxi industry is basically dead, sidewalk-based AV test expands, and much, much more! The Ontario government is moving ahead with its autonomous vehicle (AV) […]
AV Report: April 30, 2018
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 30, 2018 — In this week’s AV Report: Canadian insurers discuss the brave new world, U.S. legislators wrestle over collision data sharing, competition comes to the lidar sector, and much, much more! A story that appeared in a recent issue of Canadian Underwriter finds that insurers […]
AV Report: April 23, 2018
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 23, 2018 — In this week’s AV Report: Self-parking VWs to arrive by 2020, training AV techs, the unclear future of collision investigations in the era of Big Data and much, much more! VW is promising that the vehicles the company produces (which now includes the […]
AV Report: Taxi drivers take a stand, public argues for stricter AV regulations
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — April 16, 2018 — In this week’s AV Report: Taxi drivers demonstrate against ride share services, the AV regulatory conundrum, Sidewalk Labs announces a schedule for Quayside. Taxi Cab Drivers Struggling In New York this past week, taxi cab drivers took part in a macabre demonstration at city hall. […]
AV Report: April 9, 2018
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario – April 9, 2018 — In this week’s AV Report: AV conferences in Ottawa and Edmonton, the University of Waterloo partners with Chinese universities on AV tech, Globe and Mail editorial writers tackle self-driving cars and much, much more! There is a crowded spring schedule in terms of conferences in […]
