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Violeta Bulc, Commissioner, Transport, European Commission, Brussels, is speaking during the Session "Shifting Gears to Driverless" at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
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FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech
November 30, 2021
Half Moon Bay, CA
12:10 PM
DUDE, WHERE’S MY AV?
The AV pioneer is moving forward with plans to launch driverless taxis in more and more locales. But widespread adoption of AVs hasn’t moved forward as quickly as once predicted. We hear from Waymo’s co-CEO on what’s next for the sector.
Speakers:
Tekedra Mawakana, Co-CEO, Waymo
Interviewer: Robert Hackett, Head of Content and Editorial, a16z Crypto; Co-chair, Fortune Brainstorm Tech Alyson Shontell, Editor-in-Chief, FORTUNE
Photograph by Stuart Isett for FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH
Wendell Wallach, Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, USA, is speaking during the Session "Shifting Gears to Driverless" at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
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Still looking southerly, the next portion of the Viaduct (north of Sanctuary Rd. is lifted by crane & rests on these temporary blue supports. at the Sanctuary T-Way stop.
Line 14 tunnel which carries automated (driverless) trains, Paris.
This photo is part of the set Demolition of the Paris Metro.
Toyota Mega Web is a giant Toyota showroom that shows off all of Toyota’s latest models, car accessories and technologies. Attractions include test driving of cars (valid Japanese driving license required), a driverless car ride, and a museum exhibiting cars from past decades.
Lining up to have a look
Sydney Metro has stolen the show at this years Sydney Royal Easter with a mock-up of a typical carriage soon to be carrying passengers on the Sydney Metro - Northwest.
We got there early on the first Friday to photograph the event.
22 six car trains have been ordered. Trains are due to start running early in 2019
Alan Murray, Chief Content Officer, Time, USA.Violeta Bulc, Commissioner, Transport, European Commission, Brussels.Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Renault-Nissan Alliance, France.Paul E. Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm, USA.Wendell Wallach, Scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, USA.speaking during the Session "Shifting Gears to Driverless" at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
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A driverless bus rolled out of the bus station in Hexham damaging a building, some bollards and crashed into a traffic light.
The Post Office Railway was a 610 mm narrow gauge, driverless underground railway that was built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to transport mail between sorting offices.
The line ran from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Head District Sorting Office at Whitechapel in the east (shown foreground in the graphic), a distance of 6.5 miles. It had eight stations, the largest of which was underneath Mount Pleasant, but by 2003 only three stations remained in use because the sorting offices above the other stations had been relocated.
It opened in 1927 and operated for 76 years until it closed in 2003.
AMOD recently sent me an AGL3080 to review and blog about (http://www.blog-shmog.com/2008/01/29/amod-agl3080-an-in-depth-review)
It's a great little logger, I think it might replace my Globalsat DG-100.
I had fun one afternoon playing with some lighting to get a nice product shot. Here it is.... juicy.
Whether we like it or not, in future drivers will be able to choose whether they wish to be driven or drive themselves. The BMW Vision M NEXT is a progressive hybrid sports car that makes a very clear and confident statement, in terms of both appearance and interaction. The Power PHEV drive system offers the choice between electric AWD and pure RWD, with either all-electric propulsion or the power of a turbocharged 4-cylinder. System output of 600 hp produces a top speed of 186 mph and enables the concept to sprint from 0 to 62 mph in just 3 seconds.
Facial recognition technology allows the car to unlock automatically as the driver approaches. Pressing the touch sensor on the gullwing doors prompts them to swing open, revealing a cabin that merges the driver and vehicle into one. Full specs = www.AutoIconic.com.
Reunited! Sebastian Thrun visits Stanley in the Time & Navigation exhibit (opening 2013). Sebastian led the Stanford Racing Team that developed Stanley, a driverless robotic vehicle.
Combining the best of both: watching an airport from close by from a driverless metro train. The picture is taken from a VAL256 vehicle, running on the Wenhu Line (the Neihu Line branch). You can see the Taipei Songshan Airport, which was the main airport of Taipei till the opening of the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE) in 1979. Because of the more remote location of TPE (40 kilometers west of Taipei), the Shonshan Airport is still an important gateway to Taipei. As you can see in the picture, it is both a domestic and international airport, with the Taiwanese airlines China Airlines, EVA Air, UNI Air and TransAsia Airways as its main operators.
Unfortunately the photo is not of the best quality, but I think it is still Flickr-worthy so I post it anyway.
Taipei Sonshang Airport (SHA), Taiwan
Wenhu Line
September 24, 2014
On October 24, 2012, Stanley, winner of a historic robot race, left its home at the National Museum of American History aboard a flatbed truck and arrived safely at its destination, just seven blocks away. For the foreseeable future, Stanley will be here at the National Air and Space Museum, a centerpiece in the exhibition "Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting From Here to There."
The irony of the situation escaped no one. Stanley, a driver-less vehicle that had navigated 132 miles on its own to win the 2005 Defense Advanced Research Projects Grand Challenge, needed the help of scores of people AND a truck ride to get from there to here.
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When I was very young, I used to be fascinated by car transporters, and amazed that they could carry as many as 5 whole cars on two decks. That was as many as you would get them to hold in those days - 3 up, 2 down.
Now look at them ! I have been looking at them again in recent weeks, as I watch the traffic going up and down the M6. This one has 11 on board - does anyone know what the maximum design capacity is for one of these things ?
Also of note is that fact that the tractor unit has a fairly rarely-spotted Roscommon plate, 07-RN-6151. RN combinations are certainly rare on PSVs over there, with only just over 30 known to exist at present, and the bulk of those are at least 15 years old. Will these cars be carrying RN plates now ?
Metro after dark & with a sprinkling of rain to boot.
A Metro train waits at the platform at Tallawong Station.
U-M robotics professors Edwin Olson and Ryan Eustice have begun working part-time at the newly established Toyota Research Institute (TRI) facility in Ann Arbor, MI. Their new work is part of a $22 million agreement between U-M and TRI for research collaborations in the areas of enhanced driving safety, partner robotics and indoor mobility, autonomous driving and student learning and diversity.
Photo: Evan Dougherty, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Metro after dark & with a sprinkling of rain to boot.
Tallawong Station looking west from Cudgegong Rd.
The Aerotrain is a driverless people mover system located within the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. Opened in 1998, the Aerotrain consists of two stations, one in the Main Terminal Building and the other in Satellite Building A. The system transports passengers between the two terminals. Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) (IATA: KUL, ICAO: WMKK) is Malaysia's main international airport and is also one of the major airports of South East Asia serving the Greater Klang Valley conurbation. Built at a cost of US$3.5 billion in Sepang district of Selangor, it is located approximately 60 kilometres from the city centre of Kuala Lumpur. The airport can currently handle 40 million passengers and 1.2 million tonnes of cargo a year. Source: en.wikipedia.org
The POMA 2000 in Laon is an automatic driverless people mover which carries people 1.5 kilometres from the lower town to the old town at the top of a steep hill. It opened in 1986.
Referbished (and driverless) M-Stock train seen at the Disneyland Terminus of the Disneyland Resort Line
Toyota Mega Web is a giant Toyota showroom that shows off all of Toyota’s latest models, car accessories and technologies. Attractions include test driving of cars (valid Japanese driving license required), a driverless car ride, and a museum exhibiting cars from past decades.
This made me laugh when we were driving behind it.
** I must say, though, the idea of a car, in which I wouldn't have any control in its operation, freaks me out! What if a moose suddenly came out?! Would a car's 'think system' know how unpredictable the moose's next move would be.. stop, turn around or continue across?
What about a road collapse? That's happened here, when a flooding creek, washed out the road, as it roared under the road and the ground around a big culvert. A big transport just got across and the road just dropped, leaving a huge gaping hole. This was on the TransCanada Highway 17, between Iron Bridge and Thessalon, Sept. 10, 2013.
Hardly a day passes without some news about autonomous transportation. Apple, Uber, Waymo, Tesla, Ford, GM, Toyota – it seems as if every automotive and tech company has its horse in the race to bring driverless cars to the United States. And for good reason: driver error is a major cause of automotive deaths in America. But, safety is only one potential upside to autonomous vehicles. Traffic efficiencies, environmental benefits, and the potential for shorter commute times have all been touted as benefits.
On July 25 at the Brookings Institution hosted a full-day conference on how connecting vehicles to smart infrastructure will transform the future of transportation. Panelists at “Autonomous cars: Science, technology, and policy” discussed a specific type of autonomy: infrastructure-enabled autonomous vehicles. Engineers, researchers, economists, and government officials provided a realistic outlook on the current state of driverless cars.
Photo credit: Paul Morigi
Eugene & I had a pizza for supper after the organ concert at Grace Cathedral. We took a Waymo driverless car to the cathedral as I cannot walk much due to pain in my leg. A rental self-mover truck stopped in the path of the Waymo car. The robotic car immediately went around the obstruction without any hesitation. This was our second experience with Waymo & I am impressed. {collaborative photo with Eugene Marangoni}
Masdar City (مدينة مصدر, Madīnat Maṣdar) is an arcology project in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. The initial design banned automobiles, as travel will be accomplished via public mass transit and personal rapid transit (PRT) systems, with existing road and railways connecting to other locations outside the city.
The 1930s rail car is from the world's first driverless electric railway. The Post Office Railway, or Mail Rail, was a solution to carrying mail quickly across London avoiding the congested streets. During its life, the railway carried up to four million letters a day along the two foot gauge underground track. The route, with eight stations, served sorting offices between the west adn east ends of London from Paddington to Whitechapel.
Mail Rail ran from 1927 until 2003, when it became uneconomic to operate.
Taken in the National Railway Museum, York
Steaming up Pockerley Incline at Beamish Museum (and apparently driverless!) is Aveling & Porter road roller 10707 "Pegasus" of 1923, registered PT 1585. In fact the driver is bending over behind the flywheel.
The engine was at Beamish as part of the Great North Steam Fair of 2019.
Copyright © 2019 Terry Pinnegar Photography. All Rights Reserved. THIS IMAGE IS NOT TO BE USED WITHOUT MY EXPRESS PERMISSION!
The driverless two-coach unit #110 comes into Bangsar Station, Kuala Lumpur. The Kuala Jana Line runs for 29kms across the city. The return fares are cheap by European standards, less than £1 /$1.50. Carrying thousands of people every day, the already extensive metro system is being expanded to counter KL's horrendous rush-hour traffic chaos. Bus travel is also cheap, clean and efficient. However without many dedicated bus lanes they get caught up in the car traffic and journeys can be very slow. A monorail also runs across the city. However, it is the metro system (and local rail lines) that the government are putting their money into.
The Aerotrain is a driverless people mover system located within the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. Opened in 1998, the Aerotrain consists of two stations, one in the Main Terminal Building and the other in Satellite Building A. The system transports passengers between the two terminals. Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) (IATA: KUL, ICAO: WMKK) is Malaysia's main international airport and is also one of the major airports of South East Asia serving the Greater Klang Valley conurbation. Built at a cost of US$3.5 billion in Sepang district of Selangor, it is located approximately 60 kilometres from the city centre of Kuala Lumpur. The airport can currently handle 40 million passengers and 1.2 million tonnes of cargo a year. Source: en.wikipedia.org
Violeta Bulc, Commissioner, Transport, European Commission, Brussels, is speaking during the Session "Shifting Gears to Driverless" at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Mattias Nutt