Autonomous Vehicles

Sidewalk Labs, a smart cities shop within the Alphabet corporate structure, is working to revolutionize technology's role in city planning. Sidewalk Labs recently released the street design principles it's using to guide that effort.

May 1, 2019 - Smart Cities Dive

There is a growing movement of humans who don't like the idea of being forced to hand the wheel over to robot drivers.

May 1, 2019 - The New Yorker

There is no shortage of autonomous shuttle services operating around the United States, which means there are plenty of lessons to be learned.

April 4, 2019 - Smart Cities Dive

General Motors recently cancelled development of "Defensive Driving" software in its autonomous vehicle program. The announcement came just days after Ford announced it had cancelled the development of similar "Safe Driving" software.

April 1, 2019 - Planetizen April 1st Edition

Remember Elaine Herzberg, the 49-year-old woman who became the first pedestrian fatality due to an autonomous vehicle when she was hit last March by an Uber with a safety driver in Tempe, Ariz.? Prosecutors found no criminal liability.

March 8, 2019 - The New York Times

A public-private partnership is under consideration in the Florida State Legislature to create a driverless shuttle route in Altamonte Springs.

March 7, 2019 - Orlando Business Journal

The automated decision-making processes of self-driving cars are ill equipped to protect that safety of people of color in public.

March 7, 2019 - Vox

It's not all free flowing commutes and world peace in an autonomous vehicle-filled future.

February 28, 2019 - Futurism

Autonomous vehicles are racking up quite a track record in California—and fewer of the miles driven by autonomous vehicles in 2018 had humans at the wheel than in 2017.

February 23, 2019 - Smart Cities Dive

Take a sneak peak at a potential future.

February 5, 2019 - The Denver Post

Waymo, not General Motors, is brining automobile manufacturing back to Michigan.

January 24, 2019 - Smart Cities Dive

For all the money pouring into autonomous vehicle technology, the public is still relatively unconvinced about the viability of the technology.

January 19, 2019 - Smart Cities Dive

Looking around the globe for lessons in equitable mobility in the new technology-enabled era of transportation.

January 18, 2019 - Thomson Reuters Foundation

Is this the future we've been waiting for?

January 11, 2019 - Daily Mail

Some thoughts on what we might have learned in 2018 and what it might mean going forward.

January 3, 2019 - Steven Polzin

The sober view of self-driving cars doesn't allow much optimism.

December 21, 2018 - Jalopnik

For a country that loves cars and driving so much, the eagerness to automate transportation is conspicuous.

December 11, 2018 - Quartz

Michigan State University plans to turn its 5,200-acre campus into a test site for advanced transportation technologies.

November 16, 2018 - Ward's Auto

A paper published in the journal Nature reveals the findings of a survey of 2 million people in 200 countries on the ethics of the "trolley problem" as applied to self-driving cars.

November 5, 2018 - MIT News

The founder of New Urbanism takes his autonomous vehicle skepticism, and ideas for other solutions to congestion, to the pages of the New York Times.

November 5, 2018 - The New York Times