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The remains of a 1955 International pickup lie in the high desert in a very remote corner of Death Valley near the Jail Canyon Mine. It used to be hard to get here and to the adjacent mine and mining camp by four wheel drive. After a flash flood washed out the road a few years ago, it’s now almost impossible.
On the way out the next day our Jeep broke a steering rod and we had to hike for hours across the open desert with as much water as we could carry to a ghost town for help, but that’s another story. . .
By eliminating the driver, racing was able to return to what it was meant to be, competition between manufacturers and not who can afford the best driver, who's feeling best up to the job on the day, who has the biggest insurance premium, biggest dick etc etc etc...
This way the driving playing field is always equal, all then comes down to who actually has the best car design.
Also, big accidents can be properly enjoyed without feeling guilty or blood splattered XD
Another view of the autonomous 8-seater that is being trialled in downtown St. Pete. An operator is on board to work a computer screen, but there’s no steering wheel as lasers and cameras provide the guidance.
Having pulled into a designated stop, the autonomous electric bus being trialled in Dunedin FL by Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority steers its way back into the Douglas Street thoroughfare.
A Navya Arma autonomous electric shuttle crawls along Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, Nev., Nov. 8, 2017. (Photo by Jason Ogulnik)
A Navya Arma autonomous electric shuttle crawls along Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, Nev., Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017 (Jason Ogulnik/For The Washington Post)
A Navya Arma autonomous electric shuttle is seen during a demonstration on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, Nev., Nov. 8, 2017. (Photo by Jason Ogulnik)
Andreas Scheuer (Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, Germany) enjoys the ride in the gas free car at the DVR exhibition standat the International Transport Forum’s 2018 Summit on “Transport Safety and Security” in Leipzig, Germany on 24 May 2018.
Day two of the Sanger Leadership Crisis Challenge at the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan). Here are pictures of the sessions at Michigan Stadium on Friday March 24, 2017.
Having concluded a 3-month trial with an autonomous bus in St. Pete, Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority is launched a second trial in Dunedin, again in association with Autonomous Vehicle Advantage and Beep. Two EVs maintain the service, with a bigger capacity than the one used in St. Pete. The free to ride route runs along Douglas Avenue, connecting downtown Dunedin with the Public Library and the Blue Jays games at the TD Stadium.
Ding Zhao, Research Fellow at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), operates and drives Open AV, a vehicle research platform, at MCity in Ann Arbor, MI on October 24, 2016.
Open AV is a research platform based on a Lincoln MKZ vehicle that has various sensors, including radar, LIDAR, electronic readers, an so forth. This platform will be available to all U-M researchers with hopes of expanding on autonomous vehicle research.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Alan McKinnon (Professor of Logistics, Kühne Logistics University, Germany) responding to a question during the ITF in focus session: "ITF Transport Outlook" at the International Transport Forum’s 2018 Summit on “Transport Safety and Security” in Leipzig, Germany on 24 May 2018.
Day two of the Sanger Leadership Crisis Challenge at the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan). Here are pictures of the sessions at Michigan Stadium on Friday March 24, 2017.
In conjunction with Beep, Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) is conducting a three-month trial of a driverless bus provided by Autonomous Vehicles Advantage. It has seats for eight passengers and runs along Beach Drive, between the Dali Museum and the Tampa Bay Ferry Terminal. It is free to ride.
Karla Gonzalez Carvajal (Manager for Europe and Lead Manager for the Gender Agenda in the Transport Sector, The World Bank) listening at the meeting of the “EU Africa Task Force on Connectivity”, taking place during the International Transport Forum’s 2019 Summit on “Transport Connectivity for Regional Integration” in Leipzig, Germany, on 22 May 2019.
Had a chance to tour the worlds only testing facility of automated and connected vehicles.
About 32 acres of every type of driving situation for an automated vehicle to encounter: railroad crossing, blind hills, city blocks, driveways, highway, etc.
This Lincoln MKZ is an open connected and automated vehicle research platform, or open CAV, at the University of Michigan. It is an open testbed for academic and industry researchers to rapidly test self-driving and connected vehicle technologies at Mcity, a world-class proving ground for advanced mobility vehicles operated by U-M's Mobility Transformation Center. The Lincoln will be joined by two Kia Souls equipped as open CAVs in coming months.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering Multimedia Content Producer, University of Michigan
Day two of the Sanger Leadership Crisis Challenge at the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan). Here are pictures of the sessions at Michigan Stadium on Friday March 24, 2017.
Sunrise at Mcity Test Facility on August 2, 2018 on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
MCity is the world's first controlled environment designed for the testing of autonomous vehicles that communicate with each other.
Photo by Levi Hutmacher/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Day two of the Sanger Leadership Crisis Challenge at the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan). Here are pictures of the sessions at Michigan Stadium on Friday March 24, 2017.
Sunrise at Mcity Test Facility on August 2, 2018 on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
MCity is the world's first controlled environment designed for the testing of autonomous vehicles that communicate with each other.
Photo by Levi Hutmacher/Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing
"A realistic goal is a thousandfold [safety] improvement over human drivers ... that would reduce the number of road deaths in America each year from 40,000 to 40 ....
"Americans [will be able] to take back a total of 30bn hours per year that they now spend driving, sitting in traffic or looking for a parking space ...."
-- Ten page special report, The Economist, March 3rd 2018
Andrzej Adamczyk (Minister of Infrastructure and Construction, Poland) and Andreas Scheuer (Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Germany) have their photo taken during the Family Photo event at the International Transport Forum’s 2018 Summit on “Transport Safety and Security” in Leipzig, Germany on 24 May 2018.
Jan Hoffmann (Chief Trade Logistics Branch, UNCTAD), Olaf Merk (Economist, Ports and Shipping, International Transport Forum) and Luc Arnouts (Director International Relations, Antwerp Port Authority) at the Stakeholder Event "Global Maritime Logistics Dialogue: Towards holistic governance of the maritime logistics chain" at the International Transport Forum’s 2018 Summit on “Transport Safety and Security” in Leipzig, Germany on 25 May 2018.
Day two of the Sanger Leadership Crisis Challenge at the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan). Here are pictures of the sessions at Michigan Stadium on Friday March 24, 2017.
At the Aug. 1, 2018, workshop, members of the Task Force on Autonomous Vehicles sorted topics using a dot exercise.
Learn more about the task force at: www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Get-Involved/Pages/Task-Force-on-Auto...
CASSI, a self-driving shuttle that was deployed in the park in 2021. Wright Brothers National Memorial was the first national park unit to test an autonomous vehicle.
Day two of the Sanger Leadership Crisis Challenge at the Ross School of Business (University of Michigan). Here are pictures of the sessions at Michigan Stadium on Friday March 24, 2017.
CASSI, a self-driving shuttle that was deployed in the park in 2021. Wright Brothers National Memorial was the first national park unit to test an autonomous vehicle.
Brainstorming results from the May 23, 2018, meeting of the Oregon Task Force on Autonomous Vehicles. Learn more about the task force: www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Get-Involved/Pages/Task-Force-on-Auto...
At the Aug. 1, 2018, workshop on long-term effects, Jeanne Lawson facilitated the meeting.
Learn more about the task force at: www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Get-Involved/Pages/Task-Force-on-Auto...
Chair Lt. Timothy Tannenbaum addresses the May 23, 2018, meeting of the Oregon Task Force on Autonomous Vehicles. Learn more about the task force: www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Get-Involved/Pages/Task-Force-on-Auto...
This autonomous vehicle was MIT's entry in the DARPA Grand Challenge. Pasting from the Wikipedia page about the 2007 competition:
The third competition of the DARPA Grand Challenge[3], known as the "Urban Challenge", took place on November 3, 2007 at the site of the now-closed George Air Force Base (currently used as Southern California Logistics Airport), in Victorville, California (Google map).[1] The course involved a 96 km (60-mile) urban area course, to be completed in less than 6 hours. Rules included obeying all traffic regulations while negotiating with other traffic and obstacles and merging into traffic.
The $2 million winner was Tartan Racing, a collaborative effort by Carnegie Mellon University and General Motors Corporation, with their vehicle "Boss", a Chevy Tahoe. The second place finisher earning the $1 million prize was the Stanford Racing Team with their entry "Junior", a 2006 Volkswagen Passat. Coming in third place was team Victor Tango from Virginia Tech winning the $500,000 prize with their 2005 Ford Escape hybrid, "Odin".[4] MIT placed 4th, with Cornell University and University of Pennsylvania/Lehigh University also completing the course.
While the 2004 and 2005 events were more physically challenging for the vehicles, the robots operated in isolation and only encountered other vehicles on the course when attempting to pass. The Urban Challenge required designers to build vehicles able to obey all traffic laws while they detect and avoid other robots on the course. This is a particular challenge for vehicle software, as vehicles must make "intelligent" decisions in real time based on the actions of other vehicles. Other than previous autonomous vehicle efforts that focused on structured situations such as highway driving with little interaction between the vehicles, this competition operated in a more cluttered urban environment and required the cars to perform sophisticated interactions with each other, such as maintaining precedence at a 4-way stop intersection.
Other links about this vehicle:
• MIT Grand Challenge main site
• MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department page for the DARPA Grand Challenge, last updated June 19, 2007. (Images page from their site.)
• MIT News, June 28, 2007: Drivers Unwanted: MIT 'Robocar' takes a spin
• MIT media relations, August 9, 2007: DARPA names MIT's 'robocar' a semifinalist
• MIT News, November 1, 2007: MIT's 'robocar' named a finalist in DARPA Urban Challenge
• MIT media relations, November 5, 2007: MIT finishes fourth in DARPA challenge for robotic vehicles
• Boston.com, November 5, 2007: MIT team places fourth in robocar race
Patricia Röbler (Junior Buyer; Logistics Lidl) presents during the Official Side Event organised by Connekt: "Transforming sustainable transport: from ambition to reality" at at the International Transport Forum’s 2018 Summit on “Transport Safety and Security” in Leipzig, Germany on 24 May 2018.
Lt. Tim Tannenbaum, chair of the Oregon Task Force on Autonomous Vehicles, leads a meeting Dec. 4, 2018, in Salem at the Transportation Building.
Learn more about the task force: www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Get-Involved/Pages/Task-Force-on-Auto...