Tag: Autonomous

Electrified Cars Interest More Than Ever, Self-Driving Cars Scare, Study Says | Roadshow

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We’re in a new decade, folks, and one thing seems certain: electrification is the name of the game. As automakers look to pump out more efficient sets of wheels, hybrids, plug-in hybrids and purely electric cars are the name of the game. Corresponding with the shift in automakers’ resources is a positive shift in consumer sentiment, too. Deloitte, an accounting and professional services firm, showed in a new study released last week that more Americans than ever are interested in electrified cars. Not only Americans, but people around the world…

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Will Self-Driving Cars Kill Parking? | TechCrunch

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Some people have postulated that autonomous ridesharing cars will never need to park and cities of the future will not need street parking, parking lots or parking garages. But parking is far from dead. In fact, the $100 billion market may be poised to grow. We’ve heard from parking startup founders that many Silicon Valley investors have rejected parking as a thing of the past, rallying around alternatives — for example, investing more than $100 million in valet parking startups that didn’t pan out. Even these parking investments are a drop in the bucket…

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Driverless Cars Became A Reality In 2017 And Hardly Anyone Noticed | Ars Technica

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On November 7, Waymo announced it would begin regularly testing fully driverless cars—without a safety driver—on public roads. It was a momentous announcement. A technology that had seemed like science fiction a decade earlier became a reality. And the announcement was greeted with a yawn by much of the media and the public—if they noticed at all. Consider this December 7 article by Eric Adams, a writer for The Drive. Adams wrote that “Level 4 technology”—that is, a car like Waymo’s that can operate with no driver in a geofenced area—”is…

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