Friday Fun: Bids surface for Solera, yea and nay on driverless cars and artist Man Ray’s collision connection
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — September 10, 2014 — Interesting bits and pieces from the week that was: – Bloomberg news published a report this week suggetsing bids are surfacing for Solera. This is the parent company of AudaExplore/Audatex. The bids are said to value the company at $3.6 billion. “A winner could be […]
New 32-acre facility built to test automated vehicles
By Jeff Sanford Ann Arbor, Michigan — August 14, 2015 — The Automated Vehicle Symposium 2015 took place in Ann Arbour Michigan recently. The conference explores the issues around the rapidly emerging automated vehicle (AV) sector. Collision Repair magazine spoke with Susan Spencer, Senior Associate, at the Canadian Automated Vehicles Center of Excellent (CAVCOE), for […]
Cyber security, potential impacts the hot topics at AV Symposium 2015
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — August 5, 2015 — The Automated Vehicles Symposium is an annual event designed to advance the deployment of self-driving vehicles. This year’s event, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, drew over 900 people from various industries involved with driverless cars. The keynote address was delivered by Chris Urmson, head of […]
Google self-driving car in first accident with injuries
By Jeff Sanford Mountain View, California — July 20, 2015 — It finally happened. One of Google’s self-driving test cars has been involved in a serious accident in which passengers were hurt. The computer-directed vehicles have been zipping around Mountain View, California as a way of testing the ability to be “self-driving.” According to Google, […]
