Major Car Brands encouraged to contribute to vital standards work
As cars become reliant on on-board cameras for automated operation, the consequences of any flaws in the quality and interpretation of images sent to decision-making systems starts to become a matter of life and death. So an agreed way to benchmark image quality is imperative, yet no specific product standard for automotive applications currently exists. This realisation prompted sensor […]
Read moreAward-Winning AutoSens Conference bags silver award
The Conference Awards 2018 took place on Friday 29 June 2018 at City Central at the HAC. Now the largest gathering of conference professionals in the UK, the Conference Awards recognise, celebrate and encourage achievement in conference & events. They salute and acknowledge attainment within an industry that is continuously evolving and re-drawing the boundaries of best […]
Read moreAutoSens Detroit examines critical concerns, underscores great needs
Written by Carl Anthony, Managing Editor at Automoblog.net for Autonomoblog.net. Re-purposed for AutoSens 2018. What is an autonomous car? It seems easy enough – a vehicle that operates itself – but a recent study found some confusion. Fewer than half correctly identified an autonomous vehicle as one controlled entirely by autonomous technology. About 40 percent believed […]
Read moreGiving humans control
Working in the technology sector, it’s typical to find innovations appearing which solve technical problems. Good ideas float to the top, become popular and then financial success follows. I was recently conducting sit-down interviews with guests from across a variety of industries which somehow all connect to transport, a sprinkling of technical consultants, a senior […]
Read moreWhy you’re more likely to get an autonomy job in Michigan than California
There may be twice as many technology employers in California, but competing against the world’s talent is tough! You’re actually about twice as likely to get a job in Michigan and surrounding states, as there’s a lot less competition and far more employers (per head of population). The real difference between those two states alone […]
Read moreWhy do edge cases make system design really hard?
About 18 months ago, I was sketching out a problem with how equestrian road users – horse riders – might be seen, or rather, not seen, by ADAS or autonomous vehicle perception systems. It developed into a number of wheeling and occasionally humourous conversations, many of which I used to demonstrate why vehicle perception can […]
Read moreCould edge computing resolve a cluster of driverless technology problems?
Take any autonomous R&D vehicle apart and you’re very likely to find a central nervous system, which is understandably bulky. Equipment racks, power smoothing systems, inertia measurement boxes and a spaghetti nest of ethernet and power cables attached to devices scattered around the vehicle, feeding into a fairly powerful compute platform, at least one spare […]
Read moreAgenda announced for AutoSens Detroit 2018
Industry unites to tackle ADAS and Autonomous technology challenges This year’s AutoSens Detroit (14-17 May 2018, Michigan Science Center, Detroit MI) speaker line up reads impressively as a who’s who of autonomous vehicle industry stars, leaders, movers and shakers including speakers from Ford, Magna, NVidia, Valeo, Robert Bosch, Carnegie Mellon, University of Michigan, Google, Intel, […]
Read moreWhy our greatest success is a disappointing reflection of the automotive industry
Why having a 25% female speaker line-up has made Alex Lawrence-Berkeley really angry Until a couple of years ago, I had worked in events, media and publishing, and had never noticed any gender bias. Because of this, my arrival working within the automotive sector was like being pushed off a cliff into the dark ages. […]
Read moreWill half the US really be 20 years behind the driverless revolution?
We are now accustomed to seeing celebratory back-slapping PR and press coverage as driverless vehicles entered the public conscience around the world in 2017, but given the gravitational pull of the world’s autonomous industries towards places like Silicon Valley, I started to think about what a real tour of the USA would look like if […]
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