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Click or tap if you trust this link."> or tap if you trust this link."> Click or tap if you trust this link.">Sunday, December 25, 2022 or tap if you trust this link."> 47th edition of the 10th year of SmartDrivingCars eLetter

R. Bishop, Dec. 22, " Recent reporting/blogging about AV's can be maddeningly confusing, because the days of saying anything meaningful about "AV's" as a singular entity are long past. What's going on depends on what kind of AV you're talking about. Writers and pundits can pontificate about "the trouble in AV City" if they want, but they must first explain what AV sector they're referring to. To make sweeping statements is meaningless; the dynamics of the technical, operational, and business factors are too diverse. Thus this three-part article series, my shot at describing the great breadth of today's AV's and providing color commentary.

A fundamental AV distinction regards what's inside the vehicle: people or freight? This Part Two article focuses on moving people. Part Three will focus on moving goods.

Two Distinct Domains: Private or Commercial? …." Read more

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 296 / PodCast296 w/ Jeff Brandes, term-limited Florida State Senator & visionary of all 10 annual Florida Automated Vehicle Summits

0:00 "F. Fishkin, Dec. 17, "The driving force behind Florida's 10th annual Automated Vehicle Summit, former State Senator Jeff Brandes, joins Alain and Fred for a dive into the progress to date and what's to come. Plus Waymo, Uber Eats, TuSimple and more.open1:00Jeff Brandes background5:50Is technology being used to provide some societal good7:51Highlights from 10th annual Florida Automated Vehicle Summit24:24Brandes on what is next for him34:34NY Times: Once You See the Truth About Cars37:13Waymo doing airport transportation in Phoenix39:11Uber Eats will use sidewalk deliver robots in Miami40:30TuSimple reportedly will lay off many in coming week"fishkin@techstination.com732-928-4691
0:00 "F. Fishkin, Dec. 11, "Squad Mobility is bringing its solar powered mini vehicle, the Solar City Car to CES next month. CEO Robert Hoevers joins Alain and Fred on episode 295 to show and tell. Plus the upcoming Florida AV Summit, Tesla, the Everyday Astronaut and more.open1:00Squ! ad Mobility CEO Robert Hoevers5:23Deployment potential for Squad Mobility?11:45How adding autonomous capability can help24:40Florida AV Summit upcoming29:30The Everday Astronaut, Tim Dodd, is heading to space32:10LA Times on Tesla claiming FSD may be failure but not fraud38:02Radar coming to Teslas38:58Matt Lowne Steam Train Station animation42:08More on Henry Posner and trains assisting Ukrainians42:43TRB gets new executive directorSmartDrivingCarsZoomCast 294/PodCast294w Michael Sena, Editor, The Dispatcher
0:00 open1:00The Shifting Driverless Car Landscape15:00Autonomous mobility companies have gotten the deployment wrong22:14Automakers pausing paid advertising on Twitter. Michael's perfect pizza explanation.31:54China Inc. Global Automobile Monopoly?47:17Cities have forgotten what sidewalks are for58:43A most intelligent discussion of Artificial Intelligence. Is there even such a thing? 72:00 Tesla releases FSD update and delivers first Tesla Semis to Pepsi. Can Tesla be a major player in trucking?
0:00 open0:42what happened to Alain1:43Argo AI's lifeline from Amazon that never came5:00Ambarella/Continental Deal12:14Cruise Safety Report13:00Tesla opens up FSD18:44Cybertruck pre-orders top 1.5 million19:47HOLON! 23:08NY Times on AI Recipes24:17Mercedes to charge subscriptions for performance boost27:00Nuro layoffs29:33BrightDrop
0:00 open1:00Tesla FSD Beta tester Chuck Cook29:05Chuck Cook unprotected left turn FSD videos39:00Is Tesla using customers improperly to Beta test?52:40Motional and Lyft to launch fully driverless ride hailing in L.A.53:37Waymo shows new prototype vehicle without steering wheel54:10Cruise expands SF driverless service to daylight hours56:34Tesla's data advantage
0:00 open01:00A New Deployment Framework for Autonomous Vehicles presentation01:04:20Waymo making passenger trips to Phoenix airport01:06:30Layoffs at Lyft01:09:30Aurora reaffirms enough cash until commercial deployment01:10:30New FSD Beta from Tesla
0:00 Intro1:18Battle over batteries15:53Electricity generation and electric vehicles22:28Tech to solve ungated railroad crossing dangers26:11Pollution from tires32:23Sean Connery's Aston Martin34:08Some hood ornament history40:00South Korean wants half of all cars autonomous by 203543:22Why don't you have a self driving car yet? Brad Templeton writes in Forbes
00:42 new Tesla FSD Beta15:37Tesla AI Day coming19:07Space X Launch21:06NY Times Essay on oversized EVs24:18California to ban gasoline cars by 203525:43Toyota Research Institute says AVs not imminent31:35Tesla acts agains Dawn Project and O'Dowd32:19Pitssburght Guaranteed Basic Mobility38:24Waze shutting carpooling service41:09NASA readies Artemis

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B. Templeton, Dec 15, "…." Go through slides

J. He, Dec 13, "On the occasion of the 10th Florida Automated Vehicles Summit '22, CARTS released our study for the Total Addressable Market (TAM) for a MOVES-type, city-wide deployment of autonomous transit network (ATN) for Jacksonville, FL and Tallahassee, FL.…." Read more

A. Hawkins, Dec. 20, "Cruise is delivering on its promise to expand its robotaxi service to two new markets before the end of the year. For years, Cruise has operated its autonomous ridehail service exclusively in San Francisco. But earlier this year, the GM-backed company said it would launch in Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas, before the end of 2022.

On Tuesday, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt tweeted a short video of passengers from those two cities raving about its fully driverless vehicles as proof of a promise delivered. "Folks, we are entering the golden years of AV expansion," he added.…" Read more

T. Sottek, Dec. 22, "These days Elon Musk is always on trial in the court of public opinion, but occasionally he's also on trial in actual court. On Wednesday, November 16th, Musk testified in the Delaware Court of Chancery in the legal trial over his $56 billion pay package from Tesla. You might recall that this is the same court (and judge) Musk would have appeared before if he had not completed his takeover of Twitter, so it was kind of like a peek into an alternate simulation. Even Musk seemed to think so:. …" Read more

J. DiNapoli, Dec. 16,"Technology solutions provider Trimble Inc. has announced it will acquire German logistics company Transporeon, which uses a cloud-based TMS to connect carriers, logistics service providers and shippers.

The all-cash deal unveiled Monday is valued at $1.98 billion and expected to close in the first half of 2023.

Rob Painter, Trimble's president and CEO, said digital software solutions are in high demand in the commercial transportation market and the acquisition of Transporeon represented a great opportunity.

"We've kept our eyes on this business for years," Painter said during a call to discuss the deal with analysts and investors on Tuesday. "We are building a business for the long term and assets like this don't come along often. We kept our balance sheet in a position to be able to act on opportunities like this. So when we got approached, we quickly engaged."

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) is a Sunnyvale, California-based supply chain technology provider for trucking companies, freight brokerages and 3PLs. Its transportation division provides services such as enterprise, mobility, final-mile, mapping and maintenance solutions...." …" Read more

Staff, Dec. 25, " Boston College will ban electric scooters and other electric transportation devices, including hover boards and electric skateboards, from campus beginning December 22.

According to a December 7th letter sent to the BC community from Vice President for Student Affairs Shawna Cooper Whitehead, Vice President for Human Resources David Trainor, and Executive Director of Public Safety William Evans, the decision was made to help ensure the safety of all members of the BC community. …." Read more

J. Crider, Dec. 23, " California passed a new law banning Tesla from calling its software Full Self-Driving (FSD). Although Tesla has never claimed that FSD was fully autonomous, the electric–maker is developing the technology for fully autonomous vehicles. Until its vehicles are fully autonomous, drivers must be alert and ready to take over at all times when engaging FSD or Autopilot.

California lawmakers, however, disagree with the labels of FSD. Senate Bill 1398 was one of the hundreds that Governor Newsom signed into law. The new law takes effect in 2023 and specifically targets Tesla's name for its software. The bill was sponsored by Senate Transportation Committee Chair Lena Gonzalez, who claimed that Tesla falsely advertised its tech and that doing so was a safety issue …." Read more

R. Maurer, Dec. 23, " ➤ New rumors and reports on Tesla in China

➤ PCE report

➤ Wedbush cuts TSLA price target

➤ US discounting drives inventory down

➤ Megapack leak

➤ Twitter CEO report …." Read more

Previous SmartDrivingCarsZoomCast/PodCasts

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SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 295 / PodCast295 w/ Robert Hoevers, CE, Squad Mobility

"F. Fishkin, Dec. 2, " With The Dispatcher publisher, Michael Sena, joining Alain and Fred this is a meaty episode 294 of Smart Driving Cars. On the agenda: the driverless car landscape shifts, China's car strategy, is AI really AI, can Tesla make it big in trucking and what is happening to sidewalks? And there's more...in this deep December discussion.

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 293 / PodCast293

"F. Fishkin, Nov.. 27, " The reported Argo lifeline from Amazon that never arrived, The Ambarella/Continental deal, a safety report from Cruise, and Tesla opens up FSD and moves to block cheating on attentiveness. Episode 293 of Smart Driving cars with Princeton's Alain Kornhauser & co-host Fred Fishkin.

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 292 / PodCast292 w/Chuck Cook, FSD Betta Tester

"F. Fishkin, Nov.. 18, " Chuck Cook, pilot and airline industry veteran, has been a prominent Tesla FSD Beta tester, well known inside and outside the company. Recently featured in the NY Times, Chuck joins Alain Kornhauser and Fred Fishkin on episode 292 of Smart Driving Cars for a look at where FSD is today.

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 290 /PodCast 290 A New Deployment Framework for Autonomous Vehicles

"F. Fishkin, Nov.. 6, "On episode 290 of Smart Driving Cars, Princeton's Alain Kornhauser shares a presentation just delivered in Vancouver titled...A New Deployment Framework for Autonomous Vehicles. Plus.. he chats with co-host Fred Fishkin about Waymo, Lyft, Aurora, Tesla and more.

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 289 /PodCast 28 9Argo Shuts Down w/Michael Sena, Editor, The Dispatcher

F. Fishkin, Oct. 27, "The demise of #Argo AI, the joint Ford-Volkswagen venture is a step forward for autonomous vehicles, not a step back. So says Princeton's Alain Kornhauser on episode 289 of Smart Driving Cars. Alain and co-host Fred Fishkin are joined by The Dispatcher publisher Michael Sena for that plus #Tesla, Elon Musk and more."

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 288 /PodCast 288 So Disappointing!

F. Fishkin, Oct. 23, "Waymo is bringing Robotaxi service to L.A.. But Princeton's faculty chair of autonomous vehicle engineering is concerned the focus may not be in the right places. Alan Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin zero in on Waymo, Lyft, Tesla and a test drive in the Ford F-150 Lightning on episode 288 of Smart Driving Cars. "

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 28 7 /PodCast 28 7 Special Edition: The ABCs of Autonomous Vehicles: Technology, Economics and Policy

F. Fishkin, Oct. 12, "A special webinar edition of Smart Driving Cars: From the Reason Foundation , The Brookings Institution and Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering, welcome to the ABCs of Autonomous Vehicles: Technology, Economics and Policy. Join Princeton's Alain Kornhauser, Cliff Winston of Brookings and Marc Scribner of Reason and moderator Fred Fishkin.

"SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 28 6 /PodCast 28 6 Tesla AI Day

F. Fishkin, Oct. 9, "The biggest take-away from Tesla's 2022 AI Day? Princeton's Alain Kornhauser says it's the massive compute power. Why? Join Alain and co-host Fred Fishkin for episode 286 of Smart Driving Cars. Plus Kodiak Robotics, Mobileye, Uber, Motional and an upcoming webinar on The Present and Future of Autonomous Vehicle Technology. "

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 28 5 /PodCast 28 5 w/Michael Sena, Editor of the Dispatcher

F. Fishkin, Sept 27, "Will the world be facing a Mad Max scenario for battery components as electric vehicles fill the roadways? The Dispatcher publisher Michael Sena has some advice for decision makers on episode 285 of Smart Driving Cars with Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin. And more on the EV tax credits, tire pollution, a tech solution to railroad crossing dangers and some hood ornament nostalgia. Or listen.. "

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 28 4 /PodCast 284 w/Danny Shapiro, VP Automotive, nVIDIA

F. Fishkin, Sept 22, "What will NVIDIA's DRIVE Thor mean for companies looking to deliver autonomous mobility? VP of Automotive Danny Shapiro joins us for episode 284 of Smart Driving Cars. Plus the Biden administration is funding Smart Transportation Technology, GM Cruise aims to develop chips for self driving and the NTSB pushes tech to combat impaired and reckless driving."

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 28 3 /PodCast 283

F. Fishkin, Sept 11, "The strategy for survival at Aurora, new Detroit testing for Mobileye, NVIDIA's coming virtual developer conference and another AI upcoming for Tesla. Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin share the latest on those stories and more on episode 283 of Smart Driving Cars."

https://youtu.be/nBl1pD2BFcI Open

https://youtu.be/nBl1pD2BFcI?t=80 Aurora

https://youtu.be/nBl1pD2BFcI?t=762 Mobileye

https://youtu.be/nBl1pD2BFcI?t=872 NVIDIA

https://youtu.be/nBl1pD2BFcI?t=948 MIT Mobility Forum

https://youtu.be/nBl1pD2BFcI?t=1031 GM BrightDrop

https://youtu.be/nBl1pD2BFcI?t=1072 GM Cruise

https://youtu.be/nBl1pD2BFcI?t=1446 Uber Nuro

https://youtu.be/nBl1pD2BFcI?t=1589 Lucid Nikola

https://youtu.be/nBl1pD2BFcI?t=1648 Tesla AI Day

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 28 2 /PodCast 28 2w/ Michael Sena, Editor of The Dispatcher

F. Fishkin, Aug. 31, "Is there really a battle over building and maintaining roads? "The Dispatcher" publisher Michael Sena on the history and outlook on episode 282 of Smart Driving Cars with Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin. Plus... the Saudi linear city plan, GM, #Tesla, Baidu, Waymo and more."

https://youtu.be/F1qDhRqAA5c?t=106 Michael Sena ..battle over roads

https://youtu.be/F1qDhRqAA5c?t=2004 Michael Sena Saudi linear city plans

https://youtu.be/F1qDhRqAA5c?t=2456 Aluminum makes cars…China makes aluminum

https://youtu.be/F1qDhRqAA5c?t=2759 Teslas banned from Chinese Communist Party retreat

https://youtu.be/F1qDhRqAA5c?t=2951 GM's mandator OnStar option

https://youtu.be/F1qDhRqAA5c?t=3333 Gatik partners with Pitney Bowes

https://youtu.be/F1qDhRqAA5c?t=3416 Waymo reported seeks to withhold trip level data in SF

https://youtu.be/F1qDhRqAA5c?t=3538 GM president on autonomous vehicle strategy

https://youtu.be/F1qDhRqAA5c?t=3619 Baidu says automous EV rides in China have surpassed one million

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast281 /PodCast 281

F. Fishkin, Aug. 28, "A new step for Tesla FSD with Beta 10 69 release and the company's "Occupancy Network". Princeton's faculty chair of autonomous vehicle engineering, Alain Kornhauser, weighs in on that plus oversized EVs, Toyota's view of autonomous mobility, Pittsburgh's Guaranteed Basic Mobility Program and some excitement surround SpaceX and NASA and more."

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 280 /PodCast 280 w/Cade Metz, NY Times

F. Fishkin, Aug . 22, "How can Tesla data help with the understanding of car crashes? NY Times reporter & author Cade Metz joins Alain and Fred to explore the latest Tesla news, including the new higher price for FSD. Plus NHTSA reports a continuing rise in traffic deaths, Lyft in Vegas, Cruise and Waymo. And Princeton and NBA great Brian Taylor joins us to remember legendary basketball coach Pete Carril."

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 279 / PodCast 2 7 9 w/Scott Painter, CEO Autonomy

F. Fishkin, Aug . 11, "After announcing it will spend 1.2 billion dollars on EVs and rapidly expand its vehicle subscription service, what does the future hold for Autonomy. Serial entrepreneur & CEO Scott Painter joins us for episode 279 of Smart Driving Cars. Plus Tesla, Argo AI and more ..."

Timeining Index:

@t=47 Autonomy CEO Scott Painter

@t=2485 Tesla, Ralph Nader

@t=2635 Anti-Tesla ad campaign

@t=2657 Pittsburgh Post Gazette

@t=2892 Argo AI

@t=2967 Congressional push for AV legislation

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 278 / PodCast 2 78 Tesla 2022 shareholder's meeting

F. Fishkin, Aug . 7, "Elon Musk talked about his vision for Tesla robo-taxis and more during his Q&A following the 2022 shareholders' meeting. Weighing in on that and more is Princeton's Alain Kornhauser on episode 278 of Smart Driving Cars with co-host Fred Fishkin. Plus TuSimple, GM Cruise, Lucid, Argo and more."

Timeining Index:

@ t=55 Musk vision for autonomous taxis

@ t=728 When and where first robo-taxis will be deployed.

@ t=1177 What about the role of Musk's Boring Company?

@ t=1530 Musk responds to Autopilot suggestion

@ t=1941 Alain on automatic emergency braking

@ t=2230 California acts against Tesla for using terms Full Self Driving and AutoPilot

@ t=2357 TuSimple blames human error for crash

@ t=2456 Barron's reports When the Lawyers Come for Autonomous Vehicles

@ t=2552 GM President talks safety

@t=2722 Losses at Lucid

@ t=3071 Alex Roy talks elevators!

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 277/ PodCast 2 77 w/Michael Sena, Editor of The Dispatcher

F. Fishkin, July 30, "A look at cities & mobility, turmoil at VW, the cash problem at Cruise & more. "The Dispatcher" publisher Michael Sena joins Alain Kornhauser & Fred Fishkin for another spirited discussion on episode 277 of Smart Driving Cars."

SmartDrivingCarsZoomCast Episode 276/ PodCast 2 7 6 w/R. Mudge, President, Compass Transportation

F. Fishkin, July 25, "Following the TRB gathering in California, what was accomplished? Compass Transportation & Technology President Dick Mudge joins us for a look. Plus the latest on Tesla, Cruise, Baidu, Zoox & more. Smart Driving Cars episode 276 with Alain Kornhauser & co-host Fred Fishkin."

Recent Highlights of:

Saturday, December 17, 2022

Guest Opinion: A. Ross & J. Livingston,Dec. 15, " In American consumer lore, the automobile has always been a "freedom machine" and liberty lies on the open road. "Americans are a race of independent people" whose "ancestors came to this country for the sake of freedom and adventure," the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce's soon-to-be-president, Roy Chapin, declared in 1924. "The automobile satisfies these instincts." During the Cold War, vehicles with baroque tail fins and oodles of surplus chrome rolled off the assembly line, with Native American names like Pontiac, Apache, Dakota, Cherokee, Thunderbird and Winnebago — the ultimate expressions of capitalist triumph and Manifest Destiny.

But for many low-income and minority Americans, automobiles have been turbo-boosted engines of inequality, immobilizing their owners with debt, increasing their exposure to hostile law enforcement, and in general accelerating the forces that drive apart haves and have-nots. …." Read more

Click or tap if you trust this link.">Sunday, December 11, 2022

I'm going to the moon!!!... Literally!

T. Dodd, Dec. 8, "t's true! I have been chosen as one of the members of the incredible dearMoon mission around the moon on SpaceX's Starship rocket. To learn more about the mission and to meet the rest of the crew, visit - http://dearmoon.earth & https://dearmoon.earth/share_crew/tim... And hear more about the announcement from Yusaku Maezawa!!! - https://youtu.be/DKNSlL3Inn8... " Watch more

Click or tap if you trust this link.">Friday, December 2, 2022 December 2022 Issue

M. Sena, Nov. 28, ""In all of mankind's history, there has never been more damage done than by people who 'thought they were doing the right thing'." So says Lucy after her friend Charlie Brown reveals that he has replaced her little brother Linus's much nuzzled security blanket in the cartoon series Peanuts by Charles Schultz. This appeared in The Economist November 19th 2022 in an article that commemorated the 100th year of Charles Schultz's birth. He died in 2000 after 50 years and 17,897 cartoons. That, my friends, is dedication. It pays to start early.

I'm not sure if Elon Musk actually thinks he is doing the right thing(s), or if he doesn't really acknowledge the concept of right versus wrong. Some people honestly believe that whatever they do is right—at least for them. Leaving moral issues aside, such as how one as an employer treats fellow human beings who are employees, we can address the issue of whether he is creating or destroying value in companies in which people have given their time and efforts in exchange for a salary, or in which individuals or funds have invested their own or their customers' money. So, once again the seemingly never-ending saga of the Musketeer continues on the pages of the. December issue of The Dispatcher

But it's only one of the stories in the issue. Skip it if you don't care about Musk and his companies. If you care about driverless cars, the first story should be of interest. If you want more info on what China is doing to the Western car industry, there is something in the issue for you. I hope you will all read Musings this month. Not everyone has built a car or written software, but everyone has walked on a sidewalk at some point in their lives. I take you on a sidewalk journey through time and ask you to think about whether you want to have sidewalks to walk on to get some place in the future, or whether you would prefer to have sidewalks that are paid attractions, like rides at an amusement park…." Read more

Click or tap if you trust this link.">Sunday, November 27, 2022 Argo AI Folded After a Lifeline From Amazon Never Arrived: Report

P.Holderith, Nov. 22, "The dream of smoking a cigar with the windows up in your self-driving turbine-powered jet car may be on hold. At least, that's what the demise of Argo AI, backed by monolithic automakers Ford and VW indicated. Before it all came crashing down though, Bloomberg reports Amazon nearly stepped in to keep the ball rolling.

The retail giant, which is rumored to be laying off thousands of employees, was allegedly interested in the technology for use in its Rivian-built delivery vans last year. However, a struggle to determine how Argo would be governed with three large investors as well as an alleged high cost of the autonomous driving company's tech soured the deal. Then Russia invaded Ukraine, which hasn't done anyone besides defense contractors any good.

Amazon was reportedly willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into the startup. Ford had already invested $1 billion in 2017, followed by an even bigger $2.6 billion pile of cash from Volkswagen. In fact, VW's now-deposed CEO Herbert Diess even met with Jeff Bezos personally to discuss details of a potential deal. This was followed by prototype Argo vehicles running Amazon delivery routes, albeit without dispensing any packages.

Argo additionally hired 150 people to work on what seemed like a surefire investment from Amazon, but it was for naught. A governing deal couldn't be struck, the global economy was in a further state of disrepair thanks to that Vlad guy over in Russia—what's his last name again?—and inflation got more serious…." Read more

Click or tap if you trust this link.">Saturday, November 19, 2022 What Riding in a Self-Driving Tesla Tells Us About the Future of Autonomy

C. Metz, Nov. 14, "Cade and Ian spent six hours riding in a self-driving car in Jacksonville, Fla., to report this story.

When we decided it was time for lunch, Chuck Cook tapped the digital display on the dashboard of his Tesla Model Y and told the car to drive us to the Bearded Pig, a barbecue joint on the other side of town.

"I don't know how it's gonna do. But I think it's gonna do pretty good," he said with the folksy, infectious enthusiasm he brought to nearly every moment of our daylong tour of Jacksonville, Fla., in a car that could drive itself.

The most telling moment came as the car drove us to lunch. After navigating heavy traffic on a four-lane road, taking an unexpected turn and quickly remapping its route to the restaurant, the car took a right turn onto a short street beside a small motel.

But watch as the Tesla struggles to make sense of its environment, veering from the road into a motel parking lot. Chuck is forced to retake control….

Tesla is constantly modifying the technology, working to fix its shortcomings. Since the day we drove around Jacksonville, the company has twice released new versions of the technology that show signs of improvement. But the moment in the motel parking lot showed why it may be a long time before cars can safely drive anywhere on their own….

Mr. Cook had been posting online clips of his Tesla trying to navigate an unprotected left turn near his home in Jacksonville. …

Soon, Mr. Musk noticed the videos and vowed to solve what Tesla enthusiasts began calling "Chuck's turn." In the weeks that followed, Tesla equipped several test cars with a new version of its self-driving technology and sent them to Mr. Cook's neighborhood, where they spent several weeks testing the new software and gathering data that could help improve it.

Mr. Cook and I spent a good chunk of our day asking his car to navigate the turn named after him. Each attempt was different from the last. Sometimes, the cars approached much faster from the left. Other times, from the right. Sometimes, the gap between the two was enormous. Other times, it was tiny.

Not long after that day in Jacksonville, Tesla released a new version of its software to Mr. Cook and other beta testers. When facing heavy traffic, it could navigate Chuck's turn with a precision that was not possible in the past. So if it needed to stop next to the median, it would position itself so that traffic could safely pass both in front and behind. Chuck's turn is just one scenario among the endless scenarios a Tesla might face on American roadways.

Chuck's turn is just one scenario among the endless scenarios a Tesla might face on American roadways….

As the car approached the shadows beneath this mossy canopy, it suddenly changed course, turned sharply right and headed the wrong way down a one-way street: he moment highlighted the difference between Tesla's self-driving technology and "robotaxi" services being developed by companies like Waymo, owned by the same parent company as Google, and Cruise, backed by General Motors. The robotaxi companies are trying to reduce these unexpected moments by tightly controlling where and how a car can drive. But these services will have strict limitations that make the task easier. The cars will travel only in certain neighborhoods under certain weather conditions at relatively low speeds. And company technicians will provide remote assistance to cars that inevitably find themselves in situations they cannot navigate on their own…. "Read more

Click or tap if you trust this link.">Monday, November 14, 2022 Gusciora leads big in Trenton; many council seats up in the air

J. Fox, Nov 9, "Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora has a huge lead in his bid for a second term, putting him in a dominant position against two of his longtime foes, Council President Kathy McBride and Councilwoman Robin Vaughn, in the city's nonpartisan election.

According to numbers from the Mercer County Clerk's office, Gusciora currently has more than 70% of the vote...." Read more

Click or tap if you trust this link.">Sunday, November 6, 2022

A. Kornhauser, Nov. 1, "So much has been happening lately on the AV scene. With all these recent changes in mind, it seems a good moment for me to reiterate the basic fundamentals of mobility and then to restate the context with which I see the potential value of AV technology. In the following presentation, I will identify some pertinent societal challenges where mobility might have an opportunity to substantially improve quality-of-life. Fundamental to this concept is the deployment of technology that disrupts consumer choice, thus allowing the marketplace to deliver both the economic return on the investment in the technology and to unleash the societal benefits of the improved quality-of-life." Read more

Click ">Sunday, October 30, 2022

K. Korosec, Oct 26, "Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle startup that burst on the scene in 2017 stacked with a $1 billion investment, is shutting down — its parts being absorbed into its two main backers: Ford and VW, according to people familiar with the matter.

During an all-hands meeting Wednesday, Argo AI employees were told that some people would receive offers from the two automakers, according to multiple sources who asked to not be named. It was unclear how many would be hired into Ford or VW and which companies will get Argo's technology.

Employees were told they would receive a severance package that includes insurance and two separate bonuses — an annual award plus a transaction bonus upon the deal close with Ford and VW. All Argo employees will receive these. For those who are not retained by Ford or VW, they will additionally receive termination and severance pay, including health insurance. Several people told TechCrunch that it was a generous package and that the founders of the company spoke directly to its more than 2,000 employees..." ... Certainly a "class act" way to shut down.

"...said Farley. "It's mission-critical for Ford to develop great and differentiated L2+ and L3 applications that at the same time make transportation even safer." Farley also insinuated that Ford would be able to buy AV tech down the line, instead of developing it in house. "We're optimistic about a future for L4 ADAS, but profitable, fully autonomous vehicles at scale are a long way off and we won't necessarily have to create that technology ourselves," ... Read more

L. Sumagaysay, Oct. 27, "...", Read more

A. Hawkins, Oct. 27, "When Ford announced yesterday that it was pulling its support for Argo AI, the autonomous driving startup it had financed since 2017, it cited as one of its reasons a belief that driver-assist technology will have more near-term payoffs....." Read more

Click ">Sunday, October 23, 2022 Waymo says it's bringing robotaxis to L.A.

Russ Mitchell, Oct 19, 2022 "The company, owned by Google parent Alphabet, said Wednesday that it plans to make L.A. its next market. "L.A. is in the top three ride-hailing markets in the United States and globally," said Saswat Panigrahi, the company's chief product officer. "The commercial opportunity is huge."

But Waymo offered scant information about its plans, including when the commercial service will begin and how extensive the service's coverage will be…." Read more

Click or t">Friday, October 14, 2022 The Long Run to Autonomous Vehicles

K. Pyle, Oct. 13, "Autonomous vehicles (AV) provide the opportunity to correct government transportation failures is how the Brookings Institution's Clifford Winston characterized the potential opportunity provided by autonomous vehicles. Winston spoke to the possible economic impact of autonomous vehicles in an online media briefing (YouTube video) that also included speakers from Princeton and the Reason Foundation who touched on the technology and the role of public policy and regulation. A lively question and answer period followed the briefing...." Read more

or tap">Saturday, October 08, 2022 Tesla AI Day 2022

Tesla Staff, Sept. 30, "Streamed live..." Read more

Click or t">Thursday, September 29, 2022 Batteries: Theme of the Next Mad Max Dystoposeries

Sept 28, M. Sena, "IN THE PAST, when a country believed it was not receiving enough of a resource that it felt it needed and deserved, it went to war to take it. Gold, silver, tea, spices, cotton, cod, coal, grain, oil and many other commodities have been the causes of nations attempting to steal land and seas from other nations. There are countless numbers of movies that show us the horrors of war, but the postapocalyptical MAD MAX film series gives us a glimpse of what it could look like after all the big wars have been fought and lost. Warlords and their gangs prey on survivors of the wars that caused societies everywhere to collapse. They battle each other over gasoline, water and food. Are we trading wars over oil for wars over lithium, cobalt, nickel and rare earth metals, jumping from one frying pan into another? As governments continue with their policies to dramatically increase demand for these commodities, the chances for expanded conflicts increase. In many areas, they have already begun. ..." Read more Another excellent issue. Enjoy! Also watch or listen:ZoomCast 28 5 /PodCast 28 5 Alain

Thursday, September 22, 2022

J. Huang, Sept 20, "...In today's vehicles, active safety, parking, driver monitoring, camera mirrors, cluster and infotainment are driven by different computers. In the future, they'll be delivered by software that improves over time, running on a centralized computer, Huang said.

To power this, Huang introduced DRIVE Thor, which combines the transformer engine of Hopper, the GPU of Ada, and the amazing CPU of Grace.

The new Thor superchip delivers 2,000 teraflops of performance, replacing Atlan on the DRIVE roadmap, and providing a seamless transition from DRIVE Orin, which has 254 TOPS of performance and is currently in production vehicles..." Read more

tap ">Saturday September 10, 2022 Self-Driving Tech Company Floats Possible Sale to Apple or Microsoft

D. Welch, Aug. 30, "Aurora Innovation Inc.'s chief executive officer recently laid out a range of options for the self-driving company to respond to worsening market conditions and partners pushing out timelines, including a possible sale to Apple Inc. or Microsoft Corp., according to a document seen by Bloomberg.

Chris Urmson, who co-founded Aurora after running Google's self-driving car project, also outlined cost cuts and floated measures including taking the company private, spinning off or selling assets and pursuing a small capital raise in a memo labeled "board discussion pre-read" and dated Aug. 3. Urmson inadvertently sent this to staff and asked them on Aug. 9 not to open it, the document shows. ..." Read more

Click ">Thursday September 1, 2022 Funding Roads: Pay for the Effect or Pay for the Cause

M. Sena, Aug. 30, "The September 2022 Issue in Brief

Funding Roads: There was a time when the main problem with roads in the U.S. and Europe was that there were not enough of them to keep drivers from getting stuck in traffic. Then, environmentalism, NIMBYism, anti-feceralism and anybody-with-a-beefism put the breaks on all infrastructure. They shifted the debate to how to pay, rather than what do we need to stay competitive with the countries where the rulers decide what gets built where and how. Is there a way forward for democracies to have a functioning infrastructure, or must we look on with envy at countries where totalitarian governments build infrastructure like it's the 1950s in the West?

Dispatch Central: A new city in the desert is an old idea - The de facto head of the Saudia Arabia government has designed a city with one stroke of the pencil. One very long stroke.

Aluminum: Another brick in the Wall of China – Governments required higher fuel efficiency. OEMs lowered car weights to comply. China cornered the market on the material that was needed to make it happen: aluminum. Sound familiar?

Some countries actually do something about Tesla – China (again) seems to be the only country that can tell Tesla to "Heel?", and Tesla heels. We don't wonder why this is so.

GM looking for money in all the wrong places – Making something like OnStar a 'standard option' is like telling parishoners they need to put money in the collection basket in order to get into mass. ..." Read more

or tap ">Sunday August 28, 2022 Tesla Releases FSD Beta 10 69 With New Occupancy Network

Tesla Daily, Aug. 22, " Looking at first impressions from Tesla's release of FSD Beta 10.69..." Read more Be sure to watch Ashok Elluswamy's "Occupancy Networks" keynote presentation at CVPR on June 20, 2022. Very impressive, especially the use of training videos and it realization in FSD 10.69

Also pertinent are video demonstrations of:

Tesla FSD Beta V 10.69 Dominates Downtown Driving
FSD Beta 10.69 (2022.16.3.10) Release Notes
FSDBeta v10.69 - HEAVY TRAFFIC - Unprotected Left Turns... Amazing that such turns are legal let alone FSD's routing algorithm deicing that this is on the best way to go. Safety must not be part of its objective function C'mon Elon.
FSD Beta V 10.69 Initial Impressions. My impression is that 10.69 drove better than this tester who seemed intent on driving aggressively and not wanting to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. Hopefully no one at Tesla pays attention to this guy.
Bullish News From Giga Berlin Tours, Production Rumors, Terrible Toyota
The Tesla Semi Is Officially Here!

My takeaway from the above is that FSD 10.69 is impressive but not near "Full" anything, especially if put in the hands of some individual who themselves may well be a menace on the road.

While not being near "Full" anything, FSD may be nearing the point in which it is FSD within some useful Operational Design Domain.

It is one thing to be able to safely negotiate a trips segment: safely drive straight down a well marked lane in clear weather, safely make an unprotected left, safely stop behind a stop line at a stop sign, ... Each is an important achievement.

It is a whole other challenge to be able to safely go from some origin to some destination thus delivering useful mobility to some person or some thing safely without any disengagements. The ensemble of these origin-destination pairs would define the ODD for FSD. To date that ODD has been essentially null. The challenge for subsequent releases of FSD may well be to begin to explicitly identify FSD's ODD sand assess the extent to which these ODDs have emerged from the null state to begin to safely provide some useful mobility to the general public. Alain

Asking FSD to be "Full" everything, everywhere to everyone is simply a naive unachievable objective. To me a better question may well be in which Operational Design Domain is FSD indeed Full Self-Driving?

Once that ODD is determined, restrict FSD to operate ONLY in that ODD.

Tesla must accept the responsibility allowing FSD to be engaged ONLY when the car is operating in Operational Design Domain where Tesla has certified that FSD drives safely. Else, FSD safely pull over, stop disengage and turn the responsibility of continuing on to the human driver. It should be Tesla's responsibility to allow FSD to be turned on and the determination of when and where it ceases to move because Tesla must be held responsible and liable if it something bad happens when it is driving. If I'm driving I'm responsible and liable. Not my passenger who may or may not be paying attention to what is going on. If FSD is driving it must accept that responsibility and not expect the passenger to help out. The word "Self" implies "Full"; else the product should be called Partnership-driving or Team-driving or ??? Alain

tap ">Monday August 22, 2022 Can Tesla Data Help Us Understand Car Crashes?

C. Metz, Aug. 18, "Shortly before 2 p.m. on a clear July day in 2020, as Tracy Forth was driving near Tampa, Fla., her white Tesla Model S was hit from behind by another car in the left lane of Interstate 275.

It was the kind of accident that occurs thousands of times a day on American highways. When the vehicles collided, Ms. Forth's car slid into the median as the other one, a blue Acura sport utility vehicle, spun across the highway and onto the far shoulder.

After the collision, Ms. Forth told police officers that Autopilot — a Tesla driver-assistance system that can steer, brake and accelerate cars — had suddenly activated her brakes for no apparent reason. She was unable to regain control, according to the police report, before the Acura crashed into the back of her car.

But her description is not the only record of the accident. Tesla logged nearly every particular, down to the angle of the steering wheel in the milliseconds before impact. Captured by cameras and other sensors installed on the car, this data provides a startlingly detailed account of what occurred, including video from the front and the rear of Ms. Forth's car.

It shows that 10 seconds before the accident, Autopilot was in control as the Tesla traveled down the highway at 77 miles per hour. Then she prompted Autopilot to change lanes..." Read more We've been calling for an independent analysis of the Tesla data for some time. Privacy is easy to protect. There is no need to know who owns or was operating each Tesla. Also see ZoomCast 280 Alain

or tap ">Saturday August 13, 2022 Tesla, GM Score Biggest Share of $1.2 Billion EV Order From Startup Autonomy

D. Hall, Aug. 9, "Tesla, GM, Volkswagen and Ford are among the automakers set to get big orders from Autonomy, a startup offering drivers the option of subscribing to an electric vehicle instead of buying one outright.

Autonomy plans to announce Tuesday that it's ordering nearly 23,000 EVs from 17 different automakers for a total outlay of $1.2 billion. With chip shortages limiting production capacity at most automakers, it's unclear how soon such a fleet could be amassed. The order represents 1.2% of the projected US electric vehicle production through the end of next year... ." Read more

Click or">Saturday August 6, 2022 Tesla's 2022 Shareholder Meeting with Elon Musk

E. Musk, Aug. 4, ." Read more

tap ">Saturday July 30, 2022 GM's Cruise robotaxi unit drives deeper into the red

Reuters, July 26, "General Motors Co (GM.N) has lost nearly $5 billion since 2018 trying to build a robotaxi business in San Francisco, and now as the automaker's Cruise unit starts charging for rides, the losses are accelerating.

GM said on Tuesday it lost $500 million on Cruise during the second quarter - more than $5 million a day - as it began charging for rides in a limited area of San Francisco. ... that may be the case for the last quarter, but the chart below from GM's 6/30/222 10-Q Shows ($800M) for the last 6 months or $4.38/day when divided by 182.625 Whew!😅...

Cruise's costly effort to transform autonomous driving technology from a long-term research project to a profit-spinning business comes as investors are backing away from riskier bets on technology, and reassessing how soon robot vehicles of any kind will be deployed in large scale on public roads.

Shares of autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation Inc (AUR.O), for example, are down 80% for the year to date. Shares of robo-trucking company TuSimple Holdings Inc (TSP.O) have lost more than 70% of their value. Some automakers, including Ford Motor Co (F.N), have scaled back investments in automated vehicle units, or taken on partners to share the costs....

Cruise's losses for the first six months of the year deepened to $900 million from $600 million during the same period in 2021 - when Cruise was not charging for rides. Higher compensation costs to keep staff on board after putting aside plans for an IPO were one factor in the results, GM executives said.

Chief Executive Mary Barra said on Tuesday she is still bullish on Cruise, and reaffirmed a forecast that the unit could generate $50 billion a year in revenue from automated vehicle services and technology by 2030. ." Read more

$1.00/personTrip, >$100/vehicle-day.

$3.0M/yr. in the Trenton ODD serving 10k personTrips/day.

$100M/year.

tap ">Monday July 25, 2022 Baidu unveils autonomous vehicle without steering wheel

Reuters, July 16, "China's search engine giant Baidu Inc on Thursday unveiled its new autonomous vehicle (AV) with a detachable steering wheel, with plans to put it to use for its robotaxi service in China next year.

Cost per unit will drop to 250,000 yuan ($37,031.55) for the new model, compared with 480,000 yuan for the previous generation, Baidu said in a statement.

"This massive cost reduction will enable us to deploy tens of thousands of AVs across China," Baidu's chief executive Robin Li said at the Baidu World conference. "We are moving towards a future where taking a robotaxi will be half the cost of taking a taxi today." Read more

Click or t">Saturday July 16, 2022 MAY MOBILITY CLOSES $111 MILLION SERIES C FUNDING, BEGINS PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT ON TOYOTA'S NEXT GENERATION MOBILITY PLATFORM

Press release, July 12,"May Mobility, a leader in the development and deployment of autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, today closed a $111 million Series C round of funding. Additionally, the company plans to continue to pursue its deployment programs using the Toyota Sienna Autono-MaaS vehicle platform while beginning development on another vehicle design centered around mobility, Toyota's e-Palette, signaling the next potential milestone as it seeks new ways to bring equitable mobility solutions to the masses...." Read more

tap ">Saturday July 9, 2022 U.S. agency probing self-driving Cruise car crash in California

D.Shepardson, July 7, "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a special investigation into a recent crash of a Cruise self-driving vehicle in California that resulted in minor injuries, the agency said on Thursday.

The auto safety agency did not identify the specific crash, but a Cruise vehicle operating in driverless autonomous mode was involved in a crash involving minor injuries on June 3 in San Francisco, according to a report filed with the California Department of Motor Vehicles. ... " Read more

or tap">Saturday June 11, 2022 THE DISPATCHER

June 24, M. Sena "THE DISPATCHER, July 2022

IN THIS ISSUE

Princeton Fifth Annual SmartDrivingCars Summit ...........

Safe, Equitable, Affordable, Sustainable, High-quality

Mobility for Everyone .......................................................2

Dispatch Central................................................................9

Someone lit a fire under NHTSA .......................................9

The Economist: Right analysis, wrong solution ..............12

Musings of a Dispatcher: Eyes on the Back Story...........15

The evolution of digital maps and ADAS ........................15

Digital Maps for the Vehicle – 1970-2022 ......................24 ...

June 15, Press release, "Today, as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation's efforts to increase roadway safety and encourage innovation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published the initial round of data it has collected through its Standing General Order issued last year and initial accompanying reports summarizing this data.

The SAE Level 2 advanced driver assistance systems summary report is available here, while the SAE Levels 3-5 automated driving systems summary report is available here. Going forward, NHTSA will release data updates monthly..." Read more

These system outrageously reduce crash probabilities, and/or
maybe some, but we're probably not much luckier.
very few of the cars in use during that "10" month period had Level 2 capabilities, and/or
unfortunately, the VIN number doesn't identify these cars and only Tesla announces how many sold (I may have missed the reportings)
very few of the drivers of those cars rarely engaged the Level 2 features, and/or
likely. Only Tesla releases data on the utilization of its level 2 features but does so only in aggregate terms that don't allow for correction of sampling bias associated with engagement in "easy" driving conditions versus "challenging" driving conditions.
enormous under counting
likely, only Tesla has the opportunity to either "know all" or sample effectively because of their OtA monitoring of its vehicles. Everyone else has conveniently kept their heads in the sand. Mercedes didn't report any; however, during that period I think my Intelligent Cruise Control and Lane Centering were engaged when I hit a deer. Mercedes must not have been watching me, I didn't report it and I didn't get the memo that informed me to do anything.

or tap">Saturday June 11, 2022 3 minute Promo: https://youtu.be/q5Ov_dPuRV4

The 5th Summit: https://www.cartsmobility.com/summit

Summit Preview Tour

S. Still, June 3, "... Heywood Patterson, 67, He often drove members of his church to Tops, helping them load their groceries into his car and then taking them home. "That's what eh did all the time," Deborah Patterson said. "That's what the loved to do". ..." Watch Video

or tap">Saturday May 28, 2022 The Evolving Business of Powering Our Vehicles

M. Sena, May 24, "New Car Assessment Programs (NCAPs) all around the world have created a separate and unequal set of standards for vehicle safety operating in parallel with the Type Approval processes in most countries and the U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and their equivalents in other countries. One standard is enough. In this month's the lead article, I look at why this has happened, why it is not a good idea, and what should be done to correct the situation.

There is no Musings in this month's issue. Instead, I have put my musings energies to work in Dispatch Central. You can see the topics below. The section ends with a notable quote from the CEO of Stellantis on the topic of battery electric vehicles.

Enjoy your June issue of The Dispatcher. All comments are welcome, whether you want to take exception to something I have written or you just want to let me know that you got something out of reading it. ..." Read more

tap ">Sunday May 15, 2022 From pricing carbon to fighting opioid abuse, ORFE showcased top senior projects

A. Nathans, May 11, "When Serena Ren presented her senior thesis on using machine learning for art appraisals last month, she hoped to see her friend, Joyce Luo, present her thesis on fighting opioid addiction. But since all students in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering present their theses in parallel sessions, this was impossible.

But on May 4, Ren and Luo finally got to see each other's presentations in a classroom in Sherrerd Hall, thanks to the department's first-ever event in which selected students present their thesis work to the whole department.... " Read more

Isabelle Grosgogeat "Impact of women and minority ownership on private equity"
Joyce Luo "Equitable data-driven resource allocation to fight the opioid pandemic"
Caroline Noonan "The impact of carbon price on power plant dispatch, production costs, and total emissions"
Hari Ramakrishnan "Lighting up dark pools"
Serena Ren "Automatic art appraisals"
Mitchell Stroebell "A comparison of advanced player statistics for the NBA"
Jack Woll "Pairs trading and volatility"
Andre Yin "Equity trading strategies based on macroeconomic event analysis"

tap ">Saturday May 7, 2022 PAVE VIRTUAL PANEL "AVS AND PUBLIC GOOD: TRENTON MOVES"

PAVE, May 4, "Autonomous vehicle technologies offer incredible potential: they could make our highways safer, they could offer new mobility options for people who can't drive, and they could help create a more equitable transportation system for those who are not well-served by our current system.

During the month of May, we are highlighting places where AVs are in use — today — being deployed, tested, and used for public good. We want to look at examples of the technology being used to serve food deserts, to expand access to rural communities, to offer new accessibility options, and more.

We are starting with the Trenton MOVES initiative, which is the first large-scale urban transit system in America based entirely on self-driving shuttles. The shuttles, which carry four to eight passengers, serve traditionally underserved Trenton neighborhoods, where 70% of households have limited access to a single automobile, or no access at all. Our panelists will detail the program, describing how it works, the results it has achieved, and their vision for the future......" Read more

Click or tap ">Friday, April 30, 2022 NJDOT Commissioner Gutierrez-Scaccetti and the Trenton NJ MOVES Program

P. Keller, April 29, "New Jersey recently announced a $5 million grant for the Trenton Mobility & Opportunity: Vehicles Equity System or MOVES Project. The grant to the City of Trenton will support the planned start up and eventual deployment of 100 Autonomous Vehicles that will provide an on-demand automated transit system to serve the 90,000 residents of Trenton....." Read more

those that don't already have a stable full of their own personal mobility options.
those for which his aTaxi can substantially change their lives for the better.

or tap">Thursday, March 31, 2022 Taking our next step in the City by the Bay

The Waymo Team, March 30, "This morning in San Francisco, a fully autonomous all-electric Jaguar I-PACE, with no human driver behind the wheel, picked up a Waymo engineer to get their morning coffee and go to work. Since sharing that we were ready to take the next step and begin testing fully autonomous operations in the city, we've begun fully autonomous rides with our San Francisco employees. They now join the thousands of Waymo One riders we've been serving in Arizona, making fully autonomous driving technology part of their daily lives...." Read more

K. Pyle, Feb. 9, "Dr. Alain Kornhauser's vision of bringing equitable, sustainable, and affordable mobility to the people of Trenton took another step forward with the February 9th, 2022 announcement (Facebook) of a $5 million NJDOT Local Transportation Planning Fund Grant for the Trenton Mobility & Opportunity: Vehicles Equity System (MOVES) Project (PDF). The significance of this event goes beyond the grant announcement..." Read more

Feb. 11, "The New Jersey DOT is providing 5 million dollars to get Trenton MOVES moving. The goal..autonomous, affordable, safe mobility for all. This is a video of the event held on February 9th." Read more

or ta">Friday, February 4, 2022 Trenton MOVES

W. Skaggs, Feb. 3,"We are excited to invite you to join Mayor Gusciora, N.J. Department of Transportation (NJDOT) Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, and Trenton Public Schools Superintendent James Earle to celebrate a $5 million award from the NJDOT Local Transportation Projects Fund for an unprecedented public transportation project right here in the Capital City. The project is called the Trenton Mobility & Opportunity: Vehicular Equity System (MOVES) initiative.

Originallyannounced by Governor Murphy and Commissioner Gutierrez-Scaccetti in December, TrentonMOVES seeks to provide a safe, equitable, and affordable high-quality on-demand mobility service to Trenton residents. The effort is a collaboration between the Governor's Office, NJDOT, the City of Trenton, and Princeton University.

The $5 million award is a huge milestone for the project. This will be the first large-scale urban transit system in America to be based entirely on self-driving shuttles. Each vehicle will carry four to eight passengers at a time. The AVs will be low-cost to users in underserved neighborhoods. The high school will be one of the central destinations on the first routes.

The event will take place at 11:00 a.m. on in the Trenton Central High School auditorium. Members of the press will be invited to attend. ...." Read more

Alain L. Kornhauser, PhD

Professor, Operations Research & Financial Engineering

Director, Transportation Program

Faculty Chair, Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering

229 Sherrerd Hall

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

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