Tag: autonomous vehicles

January 29, 2024

Intelligent Transportation systems (ITS) have shown great potential in smart cities in recent years. Using information processing and communication technology, ITS significantly improves the quality of urban traffic operation and service. Autonomous vehicles (AVs), a key component of ITS, are […]

July 21, 2023

In a new report, the United States Chamber of Commerce recently laid out the potential social and economic benefits of passenger autonomous vehicles (AVs), and assessed several related adoption scenarios that highlighted the need for advance national regulatory action. “As […]

February 9, 2023

Approving a regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles would facilitate the technology’s adoption throughout the national transportation landscape, top Republicans on a U.S. House committee indicated this month. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee, […]

June 29, 2022

Global road fuel demand will peak in five years, though it will be decades before shifts in consumption reshape transportation’s reliance on fossil fuels, according to a report from BloombergNEF. Road fuel use will rise to 45.2 million barrels a […]

May 2, 2022

A group of senators recently asked the U.S. Department of Transportation for an update on efforts to regulate key aspects of autonomous vehicles. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), chairman of the Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight and Ports subcommittee, led the call […]

January 6, 2022

Autonomous vehicles on the higher end of the technological scale may only be a couple of years away from greater adoption, panelists said at a CES 2022 session Jan. 5. Vehicles with autonomous capabilities typically are organized in classes, with […]

October 20, 2021

Tech-industry experts, city planners and even Washington Gov. Jay Inslee have touted self-driving cars as a panacea, cutting congestion and vehicle emissions while reducing collisions. But an announcement Oct. 18 from Amazon’s self-driving car unit Zoox that it will soon […]

September 27, 2021

The public is enthusiastic about the expanded use of autonomous vehicles (AVs), according to a recent Arizona State University study. The report is the result of a six-month pilot program conducted by Valley Metro Regional Public Transportation Authority of Greater […]

August 26, 2021

Nuro Inc., which has unmanned delivery pods scurrying around Southwestern streets, said that it will build a $40 million facility to assemble and test a new generation of autonomous vehicles in Nevada. The expansion marks an inflection point for the […]

February 17, 2021

Ford announced a major push into electric vehicles in Europe, vowing to convert its entire passenger car lineup on the continent to electrics by 2030. Ford will spend $1 billion to revamp its factory in Cologne, Germany, and make it […]

November 17, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv Plc’s $4 billion self-driving venture received permission from the state of Nevada to test autonomous vehicles on public roads without a safety driver, the company said. The joint venture, dubbed Motional, got the approval from […]

October 26, 2020

The promise of self-driving cars and robotaxi fleets once seemed just around the corner, but reality is setting in. Makers of the underlying technology are pivoting to more realistic ways of making money in the here and now. Among the […]

September 1, 2020

The study, published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, focused on the anticipated hybrid traffic flow of the future, which will combine traditional, human-operated vehicles with a small fraction of AVs. This scenario raises several questions as to […]

August 5, 2020

As a proxy for AVs, researchers often examine transportation network companies (TNCs) like Uber and Lyft, because in many ways they operate as AVs will. In a 2019 NITC Small Starts project, “How Will Autonomous Vehicles Change Local Government Budgeting […]

July 9, 2020

Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk said the carmaker is on the verge of developing technology to render its vehicles fully capable of driving themselves, repeating a claim he has made for years but been unable to achieve. The CEO has long […]

March 26, 2020

SINCE AN INTERNET search company named Google began testing self-driving vehicles more than a decade ago, the still-in-development technology has faced a niggling issue: The federal vehicle safety rules that govern car design assume that a human sits behind the […]

January 6, 2020

AVIATION: The Boeing 737 MAX has been grounded for almost 10 months, and the furor over the passenger jet’s deadly track record is expected to drag well into 2020. Boeing Chairman David Calhoun is set to become the company’s CEO […]

December 24, 2019

Probably, the decade of e-mobility. TreeHugger Mike first wrote about self-driving cars in 2010, suggesting that “in the next 10-20 our cars could start to be able to drive themselves safely and efficiently.” Over the next few years everyone thought […]

November 27, 2019

A few hundred self-driving cars are undergoing testing on American roads today, using advanced technology to journey down highways, stop at red lights, and avoid pedestrians and cyclists—except when they don’t. More than 60 companies are registered to test in […]

October 30, 2019

Italian-American carmaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles on Oct. 30 confirmed that it is in talks with French rival PSA Peugeot, its second bid this year to reshape the global auto industry, which is facing huge challenges with the transition to electric […]