U.S. Semiconductor Technocracy Falls Into Place
You know a government program is institutionalized when the acronyms start flying.
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Drive ’Til You Can’t, Then AV Aids Kick In
It’s time for the automotive and tech industries to rethink whether and why the public actually needs “self-driving cars,” aside from the need to please investors who poured billions into startups working on robotaxis and robotrucks.
After several days last week in Brussels talking to throngs of automotive engineers at AutoSens, I had an epiphany. The whole auto industry might be looking at AVs through the wrong end of the telescope.
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Arm’s Suit Against Qualcomm Highlights Strained IP Ecosystem
By Peter Clarke
Processor intellectual property licenser Arm Ltd. has sued longtime licensee Qualcomm and recent Qualcomm acquisition Nuvia Inc., another Arm licensee, alleging a breach of licensing terms and resultant infringement of Arm’s trademarks.
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Google Glass May be Half-Full
By Rebecca Day
I assume one day I’ll own smart glasses, though I can’t for the life of me understand why I’d want to today. That’s often how it works with me and tech. Unlike HDTV — which I craved after I first saw eyepopping jockey silk colors in an ABC-TV demo reel — new product categories often take time for me to adjust to. I’m not a tech-for-tech’s sake kind of gal. I need to see a compelling reason buy into the next big thing – and for the price to come down.
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Phil Koopman’s New Book Asks the Hardest AV Question: ‘How Safe is Safe Enough?’
Engineers, AV enthusiasts, public officials and even ordinary drivers should heed Phil Koopman’s insights, pausing to consider what must be done before unleashing AVs on our streets.
Undefined, Unregulated Hands-Free Driving Means Unsafe Roads
As more vehicles are introduced with so-called “hands-free” convenience features, the automotive industry is probing uncharted territory.
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Metaverse, Omniverse–How Versed Can We Get?
By Jon Peddie
Anyone who has read anything about the metaverse probably knows Neal Stephenson coined the term in Snow Crash in 1992. William Gibson wrote about a similar place he called Cyberspace in 1984, and the idea of an alternate digital reality has been a staple of science fiction ever since. This generation’s version was described by Ernest Cline’s 2011 book Ready Player One and the eponymous film that followed.
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BMW iX Crash: Getting at the Cause
A BMW iX “test vehicle” that crashed on Aug. 15 near Römerstein, Germany, initially generated a lot of justifiable media coverage.
The accident killed one woman and seriously injured nine others, including the 43-year-old driver of the BMW and the driver’s 18-month-old passenger. The BMW vehicle had veered onto the oncoming lane, hitting two vehicles and indirectly causing another collision.
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Unanswered Questions in the Aftermath of Fatal BMW Crash
By Colin Barnden
What’s at stake?
Who ensures the public’s safety when automakers test experimental automated driving technology on public roads? The answer may actually be nobody.
Road Test Using ‘Live’ Kids Exposes AV Absurdity
Last weekend, a handful of Muskovite vigilantes used their children as guinea pigs to prove that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) functions are unlikely to mow down a small child crossing the road.
This dubious effort by amateur Tesla testers was triggered by a video clip posted on Twitter by Taylor Ogan, CEO of Snow Bull Capital, a technology hedge fund (see below). It showed a Tesla obliterating a child-size crash dummy on a test course.
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