Urban Planning for Self-Driving Cars
Detroit — With technologists racing to get autonomous-driven vehicles on the road in 10 years or less, America’s urban planners need to resolve a host of questions about how cities will respond to the future of transportation. A new report from the National League of Cities finds only 6 percent of U.S. cities have devoted planning resources to figuring out changes needed to accommodate self-driving vehicles. And only 3 percent have...
Ride Sharing, Driverless Cars in GM’s Future
Detroit — General Motors will introduce a fleet of autonomous Chevrolet Volts in late 2016 on its technical center campus in suburban Detroit for employees to use, announced a New York City ride-sharing project and unveiled a concept electric bicycle as it expand its efforts to provide alternative mobility options. In addition, CEO Mary Barra said GM’s joint fuel cell work with Honda will produce a fuel cell vehicle by about 2020....
Google Car Being Tested for Weird Situations
Detroit — Google is concentrating its autonomous car testing on the more difficult and unpredictable scenarios that crop up on surface streets more often than on freeways. Speaking at the Automated Vehicle Symposium Wednesday in Ypsilanti, about 30 miles west of Detroit, Chris Urmson, director of Google’s self-driving cars, showed a variety of scenes the cars have confronted on surface streets around the company’s Mountain View,...
New York Auto Show Gaining Ground on Detroit’s
New York — The New York International Auto Show is proving itself, once again to be one of the strongest auto shows in the world and is even generating chatter among industry watchers that it could challenge the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. After two days of glitzy press reveals, the New York auto show that opened to the public Friday offering an interesting mix of luxury and mainstream vehicles in a city where...
