Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022

Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022

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4th edition of the 11th year of SmartDrivingCars eLetter

Driverless Work Vehicles: On This Side of the Horizon

M. Sena Jan. 27, “Land-based robots are already on wheels WHEN WE THINK of driverless vehicles, our mind’s eye tends to drift toward the horizon where we see ourselves at some point in the future being chauffeured around by an artificially intelligent robot in the form of a passenger car. I think it’s time to direct our sights toward solutions which are much closer at hand: driverless work vehicles (DWVs). I believe this is where we should be focusing our money and attention. The first image that pops into my head when I think of DWVs is a Zamboni, gliding around the Boston Garden ice hockey rink without a driver, smoothing the ice surface in between periods while organ music and the aromas of hot dogs and beer filled the air. I’ve never seen a driverless Zamboni, but how difficult can it be to build one? I remember reading about super-large KOMATSU driverless dump trucks lumbering in and out of mines with no front or back to them. They’re already operating. …” Read more Hmmmm… Another most well written and insightful newsletter focused on the work vehicle market… vehicles that contribute to the provision of goods or services by moving around. Listen/watch our Pod/ZoomCast 301 Alain

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 301 / PodCast 301 w/Michael Sena, Editor of The Dispatcher

“F. Fishkin, Jan.27, “Driverless work vehicles advance while driverless passenger cars seem stalled. The Dispatcher publisher Michael Sena joins Alain and Fred on episode 301 of Smart Driving Cars for that, plus Tesla rebounds, Ford’s Blue Cruise impresses and more.”

  • 0:00 open
  • 1:00 Driverless Work Vehicles discussion
  • 20:45 Stellantis Reaching for the Data Star
  • 23:27 Winters can be cold, EVs like it hot
  • 36:11 Tesla earnings, news and rebound
  • 38:39 Layoffs hitting Waymo? And other tech companies too.
  • 47:30 Ford’s Blue Cruise top rated by Consumer Reports in active driver assistance
  • 0:00 Elon opening remarks
  • 7:53 CFO Zach Kirkhorn opening remarks
  • 11:19 Investor questions
  • 30:15 Analyst questions
  • 1:02:29 Recap and analysis

Watch more Hmmmm…Worth listening to. Alain

  • 0:00 open;
  • 1:11 Alain on trip to Nairobi, Kenya and public transit there;
  • 5:52 Mobileye looks to deploy robot taxis in Israel and Europe this year;
  • 11:42 Forbes piece on map of places where autonomous vehicles are serving public;
  • 13:30 Tesla price cuts spur demand;
  • 17:45 Tesla staged video? Alain’s take;
  • 20:52 Mercedes talks level 3 availability;
  • 21:54 Interview with Richard Chung of Toyota Boshoku courtesy of Ken Pyle and Viodi.com;

  • 32:00 Alain on podcast number 300!”

  • 0:00 open
  • 1:14 RFP for self driving shuttles in Buffalo
  • 2:41 ZF unveils next gen shuttle
  • 8:46 WSJ report on concept self driving cars
  • 10:50 Tesla headlines top luxury brand in U.S. and more
  • 17:56 CES Holon interview courtesy of Ken Pyle
  • 31:30 Alain comments on Holon
  • 32:30 Intro to CES Ottonomy interview

  • 49:39 Alain comments on Ottonomy “

  • 0:00 open
  • 1:04 Smart Driving Cars Newsletter enters second decade. Where we’ve been…where we are.
  • 12:30 Mobileye at CES
  • 14:29 Safety capabilities of vehicles aren’t being utilized
  • 18:08 Caterpillar and John Deere impress
  • 23:30 interview with Halo.car remote vehicle repositioning
  • 41:30 discussion of Halo.car value
  • 46:30 The Boring Company and a little history from Alain
  • 55:30 Stradvision interview
  • 1:04:00 Zoox Interview

  • 1:15:00 Upcoming TRB conference”

  • 0:00 open
  • 1:00 ChatGPT and AI
  • 6:00 Alain’s take on AI
  • 20:00 Elon Musk, FSD and more
  • 22:00 Aurora’s Urmson sees driverless shakeout but not his own
  • 30:40 Bosch is not giving up on internal combustion engines
  • 32:50 Senator Manchin wants to block EV tax credit cheating
  • 40:17 China and the global car market
  • 46:30 Consumer Reports delivers ADAS guidelines to automakers

  • 48:00 At end of 2022 a look at the progress and a look ahead”

  • 0:00 open
  • 1:00 Jeff Brandes background
  • 5:50 Is technology being used to provide some societal good
  • 7:51 Highlights from 10th annual Florida Automated Vehicle Summit
  • 24:24 Brandes on what is next for him
  • 34:34 NY Times: Once You See the Truth About Cars
  • 37:13 Waymo doing airport transportation in Phoenix
  • 39:11 Uber Eats will use sidewalk deliver robots in Miami

  • 40:30 TuSimple reportedly will lay off many in coming weeks

  • 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. open
  • 1:00 Squad Mobility CEO Robert Hoevers
  • 5:23 Deployment potential for Squad Mobility?
  • 11:45 How adding autonomous capability can help
  • 24:40 Florida AV Summit upcoming
  • 29:30 The Everyday Astronaut, Tim Dodd, is heading to space
  • 32:10 LA Times on Tesla claiming FSD may be failure but not fraud
  • 38:02 Radar coming to Teslas
  • 38:58 Matt Lowne Steam Train Station animation
  • 42:08 More on Henry Posner and trains assisting Ukrainians

  • 42:43 TRB gets new executive director

  • 0:00 open
  • 1:00 The Shifting Driverless Car Landscape
  • 15:00 Autonomous mobility companies have gotten the deployment wrong
  • 22:14 Automakers pausing paid advertising on Twitter. Michael’s perfect pizza explanation.
  • 31:54 China Inc. Global Automobile Monopoly?
  • 47:17 Cities have forgotten what sidewalks are for

  • 58:43 A most intelligent discussion of Artificial Intelligence.

  • 0:00 open
  • 0:42 what happened to Alain
  • 1:43 Argo AI’s lifeline from Amazon that never came
  • 5:00 Ambarella/Continental Deal
  • 12:14 Cruise Safety Report
  • 13:00 Tesla opens up FSD
  • 18:44 Cybertruck pre-orders top 1.5 million
  • 19:47 HOLON
  • 23:08 NY Times on AI Recipes
  • 24:17 Mercedes to charge subscriptions for performance boost
  • 27:00 Nuro layoffs

  • 29:33 BrightDrop

  • 0:00 open
  • 1:00 Tesla FSD Beta tester Chuck Cook
  • 29:05 Chuck Cook unprotected left turn FSD videos
  • 39:00 Is Tesla using customers improperly to Beta test?
  • 52:40 Motional and Lyft to launch fully driverless ride hailing in L.A.
  • 53:37 Waymo shows new prototype vehicle without steering wheel
  • 54:10 Cruise expands SF driverless service to daylight hours

  • 56:34 Tesla’s data advantage.”

  • 0:00 open
  • 01:00 A New Deployment Framework for Autonomous Vehicles presentation
  • 01:04:20 Waymo making passenger trips to Phoenix airport
  • 01:06:30 Layoffs at Lyft
  • 01:09:30 Aurora reaffirms enough cash until commercial deployment

  • 01:10:30 New FSD Beta from Tesla

  • 0:00 Intro
  • 1:18 Battle over batteries
  • 15:53 Electricity generation and electric vehicles
  • 22:28 Tech to solve ungated railroad crossing dangers
  • 26:11 Pollution from tires
  • 32:23 Sean Connery’s Aston Martin
  • 34:08 Some hood ornament history
  • 40:00 South Korean wants half of all cars autonomous by 2035

  • 43:22 Why don’t you have a self driving car yet? Brad Templeton writes in Forbes

  • 00:42 new Tesla FSD Beta
  • 15:37 Tesla AI Day coming
  • 19:07 Space X Launch
  • 21:06 NY Times Essay on oversized EVs
  • 24:18 California to ban gasoline cars by 2035
  • 25:43 Toyota Research Institute says AVs not imminent
  • 31:35 Tesla acts against Dawn Project and O’Dowd
  • 32:19 Pittsburgh Guaranteed Basic Mobility

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