GM Expects to Offer Hands-Free Driving by 2016 Automated Steering System, Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Would Seek to Reduce Crashes By Jeff Bennett and Joseph B White , The Wall Street Journal Sept. 7, 2014 5:15 p.m. ET GM plans to provide vehicle-to-vehicle communications technology in its 2017 Cadillac CTS sedans. General Motors Co. plans to launch by […]…
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Toyota Take Five–What Will Intelligent Driving Really Mean?
published by William J. Holstein on 7 September 2014 – 1:14pm I came away from Toyota’s Advanced Safety Seminar convinced that there will be dramatic changes in the automobile in coming years. As John Lee from the University of Wisconsin said, there will be more sweeping changes in the interaction between car and driver in […]…
Chief Executive magazine–Top Five Play Cars for CEOs
Go here to see the complete list of what edmunds.com Editor Scott Oldham and I came up with: Five Best Fun Cars for CEOs You’ve worked long and hard and you deserve to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Buying a fun, weekend car is one obvious way to do that. Never mind what they […]…
Toyota Take Four–An Intriguing Drivers Heads-up Display
Sept. 7, 2014–One of the major questions about building more intelligent cars, and perhaps ones that are ultimately self-driving, is how information is communicated to the driver. Today’s technology would allow an absolute flood of information to reach the driver, but the risk of course is that it would cause driver distraction. The traditional goal […]…
Toyota Take Three–How LIDAR helps cars “see
This is what I look like when a car equipped with LIDAR scans me at a distance of 20 feet. (The dark object on my chest is my ID tag.) LIDAR is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by illuminating me with a laser and analyzing the light that gets reflected. It is one […]…
