Tag Archives: Autonomous cars

9. The future of car buying The number of new cars sold has been decreasing steadily in developed Countries and the total number of cars sold has not decreased significantly (from 67 million in 2021 to 66 million in 2022) only because of the surge in developing economies: Malaysia +42% …

I have been asked to provide a really (really!) short presentation, 1 to 2 minutes, to the IEEE Board providing technology evolution forecast for this decade. I started the (recorded) presentation by saying that it was impossible to provide a foresight on tech evolution by looking just at … tech …

Although fully autonomous cars are still in the future designers have already started to reinvent the car to match the new paradigm. As a matter of fact, once your car is fully autonomous you are no longer in charge, of the driving. You just tell the car, probably via an …

Look at the photo, apparently taken on a “normal” day in central Lagos Nigeria. The first question is “Would you be prepared to be driving there?”. If you are like me the answer is NO! Yet, as clearly shown in the photo, there are plenty of people willing to do …

One of the problem we are facing when talking with one another is to know what the other person “knows” (or perceive). It pops up once in a while when it is clear that there is a misunderstanding, most of the time this misunderstanding does not exist (or, more likely, …

There have been a (limited) number of accident involving Tesla cars caused by the inability of the autopilot to become aware of the actual situation. A car slammed onto a tractor-trailer, failing to recognise what it was, another hitting a truck blocking an highway after capsizing (see the picture or …

Sort of ironic that a safety worker is being laid off because of safety reasons. Isn’t it? Yet, this is what is happening in California where Zoox, a taxi service using self driving cars has laid off some 120 safety drivers required by California law to provide the service. Because …

Autonomous Vehicles Technology to support autonomous vehicles is already available. Think about military drones -UAV, Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles-, automated subway trains… You can also think about early versions of autonomous cars, like Waymo. Technology might not be totally affordable, it might require further enhancement but it is here. The reasons …

In many Countries around the world spectrum for the 5G wireless system is being auctioned with quite a significant spread of license fees. In Italy the auction just closed with a promise from several Operators to pay over 6 billion € over the next 5 years to get spectrum licenses. …