Self-Driving Cars

04/03/2018

75 Percent Of Americans Say No To Self-Driving Cars. This research was conducted by Global market research and consulting firm, Ipsos, attempted to figure out if consumers are really as in favor of self-driving technology as the car companies would have us believe. For the study, Ipsos surveyed 21,549 consumers from 28 countries between the ages of 18-24 between November 27th, 2017 to December 8th, 2017.

04/02/2018

The US Patent and Trademark Office has published an Apple patent application that details a pretty neat VR system. Spotted by Patently Apple , it's meant to be used in vehicles -- including self-driving vehicles -- and Apple pitches it as a way to mitigate motion sickness. But the company also describes a lot of other interesting applications, many of which could be used to turn a standard ride in an autonomous car into a business meeting, a concert or an exciting, zombie-filled adventure

03/31/2018

Even though Uber self driving car project is suffer from recent events it seems it hasn’t affect Waymo. On Tuesday, Waymo announced they’d purchase 20,000 sporty, electric self-driving vehicles from Jaguar for the company’s forthcoming ride-hailing service.

03/30/2018

After the recent incident that happened in California with Uber self driving car that killed a pedestrian. It came up today that Uber won’t be renew it’s permit in California to test it’s cars. Is this a good thing or a bad ?

03/29/2018

How much better should self-driving cars be than humans before the public accepts them?

Even if people could agree on the ways in which self-driving cars should be safer than humans, it’s not clear that people should be okay with self-driving cars when they first become only barely better than humans. If anything, that’s when tests on city streets should begin.

03/28/2018

03/27/2018

The governor of Arizona on Monday said he was suspending Uber's ability to test of self-driving cars on the state's roads following a fatal accident involving a pedestrian earlier this month. This is so that the company could test the technology to discover where problems was.

03/25/2018

Who is responsible when a self-driving car kills someone ? Is it the company, supplier or the individual that was in the car ?

03/23/2018

After the recent event with self driving cars, would you take a Uber or lyft that was fully autonomous ?

03/21/2018

This is the video about the incident that the self-driving car was involved in.
https://www.facebook.com/SeekerMedia/videos/10155855445018387/

03/19/2018

Today a female pedestrian was killed after being struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle in Arizona, according to ABC 15. In response, Uber has pulled all of its self-driving cars from public roads in the state as well as in the cities of San Francisco, Toronto, and Pittsburgh.

Does this hinder the process of self-driving cars and question the capabilities of the Information Systems ?

03/18/2018

Even though we want self-driving cars, there are still some challenges ahead. Right now, autonomous cars are legal only in a few U.S. states, as regulators weigh how to best ensure their safe interaction with standard human-driven vehicles.