Transportation Updates

Bottom line, lots of work yet to do in completely autonomous cars.  The number of miles driven in CA seems impressive.

Some excerpts from Wired Transportation.  Worth subscribing to, links to full articles.

At some points three or so years ago, it looked like self-driving cars might appear at your or my door any moment. But now it’s clear the journey to robot cars will be more of a slog. Last week, we gained insight into some important steps necessary before the vehicles really hit the road. For one, the federal government needs to figure out its approach to regulating autonomous vehicles, and to the advanced driver-assistance tech that precedes it. A federal safety board criticized regulators for the approach they’re taking to Tesla Autopilot—even as those same regulators shut down passenger trips on a kind of autonomous shuttle. Companies also need to reach their own internal self-driving benchmarks. We got some insight into how they’re doing that.

Plus, the Air Force gets into flying cars, and Uber gets into ads. Let’s get you caught up.
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Advertisers should love Uber’s newest plan to make money: placing billboards on top of its drivers’ cars.

Thanks to data released last week, we now know that robot cars in autonomous mode drove almost 2.9 million miles on public California roads last year.  .... "