An Insurance Perspective on Autonomous Technology Tesla's Video of its Self-Driving Technology It goes without saying that preservation of life is the reason to invest in road and car safety technology, but the financial implications that fatal and non-fatal accidents have on the economy areanother factor which cannot be ignored. According to National ... Read More...
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Technology and Innovation Drives Ford Smart Mobility Ford recently marked the one-year anniversary of the opening of its newly expanded California R&D lab and ticked off its accomplishments as leader in what CEO Mark Fields called Ford’s “one foot in today, one foot in tomorrow” strategy: Driving innovation (more about that later). Becoming ... Read More...
$50 Million in Programs at Stanford and MIT While Silicon Valley seems awash in autonomous Google cars and Carlos Ghosn says Nissan will have an autonomous car on the road by 2020, Toyota is taking a more cautious approach, investing in more research in artificial intelligence and hedging on when any ... Read More...
A Few More Steps Toward Taking Your Hands Off the Wheel Whether it’s Google’s little “horizontal elevators” or Audis “driving” across the country with no driver input, it’s hard to find a story on advanced automotive technology that doesn’t touch on the coming of the autonomous or self-driving car. Well, we ... Read More...
They’re Coming Soon Than Predicted By 2020, you will be able to own a car with advanced safety features helping avoid collisions, preventing you from drifting into the next lane, providing valet parking and allowing you to touch an “autopilot” button to have the car drive itself. Tesla, Volvo, Mercedes (Daimler), ... Read More...
Tesla (and everyone) is getting more automated; selling more, just not in the U.S.; selling software upgrades rather than new hardware (but he has new hardware, too) The first quarter of 2015 may be a watershed time for Tesla Motors. As time marches on, CEO Elon’s Musk’s very different view of ... Read More...
The Future of Driving Is Arriving Those gifts that you ordered from Amazon are shuttled through a massive warehouse by a self-driving vehicle. In 2019, 100 Volvos that can self-drive with the touch of a button will be in use in Gothenburg, Sweden. A year later, more than 1,000 self-driving cars ... Read More...
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