AV Report: Blackberry is making a comeback, Nissan’s new technology
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — January 6, 2018 — This week in the Autonomous Report, Blackberry is making a comeback, Tesla can’t quite meet their promises and much, much more. Blackberry’s comeback Blackberry just announced a deal with Chinese tech giant Baidu to see that the company uses BlackBerry software for […]
AV Report: Elon Musk’s reputation takes a hit; Intel and Warner Bros to create AV-entertainment systems
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — December 11, 2017 — In this week’s Autonomous Report, Elon Musk’s reputation takes a hit, Hollywood eyes the potential in AVs, insurance companies get a warning, and much, much more! -The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan was one of the major institutional investors buying up a stake in the ride-share […]
AV Report: GM to launch self-driving cars by 2019; Velodyne launches new LiDAR sensor for driverless cars
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — December 3, 2017 — In this week’s Autonomous Report, General Motors makes a big announcement, the most popular LiDAR unit, a delay in the Uber/Waymo trial, and much, much more! General Motors held its highly anticipated investor presentation this past week. The future of the auto world came into […]
The AV Report: GM to make ‘big announcement’; Report looks at safety of automated vehicles
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 27, 2017 — In this week’s Autonomous Report, General Motors to make big announcement, AV aftermarket service conglomerates, the coming flood of used non-AVs, and much, much more! -General Motors has scheduled a webcast for investors on November 30. Analysts seem to think a major announcement concerning the […]
The Autonomous Report: Autonomous vehicles will be “life-changing”; preparing for the fourth industrial revolution
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 16, 2017 — In this week’s Autonomous Report, Toyota Canada head talks AVs, Lyft launches in Canada, and much, much more. Larry Hutchinson, President and CEO of Toyota Canada Inc., was the keynote speaker last week at the 2017 TalkAUTO conference. The event brought together a room full […]
The Autonomous Report: Nissan runs public tests in Tokyo, plans launch in 2020
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — October 26, 2017 — In this week’s Autonomous Report, we look at the rise of military autonomous vehicles (AVs), Nissan plans an AV launch for 2020, Magna partners with Mercedes, disruption on the construction site, and much, much more! -A report from Ukraine notes that officials there indicate, “… […]
The Autonomous Report: UK insurers claim support of AV technology
Toronto, Ontario — August 7th, 2017 — In this week’s AV Report, human claims adjusters go extinct, the problem of AV obsolescence, the possible heightened severities of injuries in AVs and much, much more! – A story in the Detroit Free Press reports on University of Michigan (U of M) scientists who are “researching what […]
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: 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 […]
