Tag: Autonomous vehicles
Bringing AI up to speed – autonomous auto racing promises safer...
Madhur Behl, University of Virginia
The excitement of auto racing comes from split-second decisions and daring passes by fearless...
Why AI can’t replace air traffic controllers
Amy Pritchett, Penn State
After hours of routine operations, an air traffic controller gets a radio call from a...
Linking self-driving cars to traffic signals might help pedestrians give them...
Lionel Peter Robert Jr., University of Michigan
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The big idea
Automated vehicles don’t have human operators...
Bargain-hunting robocars could spell the end for downtown parking – cities...
Corey Harper, Carnegie Mellon University and Constantine Samaras, Carnegie Mellon University
Imagine a scene from the near-future: You get dropped off downtown by a driverless...
Even self-driving cars need driver education
Johanna Zmud, Texas A&M University
What do self-driving cars and teenage drivers have in common?
Experience. Or, more accurately, a lack of experience.
Teenage drivers –...
How ride-hailing could improve public transportation instead of undercutting it
Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis; Austin Brown, University of California, Davis, and Mollie D'Agostino, University of California, Davis
Over the last half-decade, public transit...
What are these ‘levels’ of autonomous vehicles?
Huei Peng, University of Michigan
As automated and autonomous vehicles become more common on U.S. roads, it’s worth a look at what these machines can...
Your next pilot could be drone software
Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University
Would you get on a plane that didn’t have a human pilot in the cockpit? Half of air travelers...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
