Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022

11.04 - Work Vehicles

February 09, 2022Newsletter archive →

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

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

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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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Driverless Work Vehicles: On This Side of the Horizon

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