The Autonomous Report: Calgary looks at driverless shuttles, China fast-forwards self-driving tests and examining the impact on cities
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — November 27, 2016 — The emergence of automated vehicles is a hot and trendy topic these days. Collision Repair magazine provides a weekly look at some of the developments in the field. – Calgary has announced it will begin running a driverless shuttle between the Zoo LRT station and […]
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, […]
No ‘near-miss’ for rival self-driving cars
By Jeff Sanford Toronto, Ontario — July 2, 2015 — Auto industry media went wild recently with a story that suggested two self-driving cars had come close to colliding. The close call was said to have occurred on San Antonio Road in Palo Alto, California. The reports stated that a Google-operated self-driving Lexus nearly collided […]
Should your self-driving car be programmed to kill you?
By Jeff Sanford Birmingham, Alabama — June 26, 2015 — A philosophical question around self-driving cars is increasingly being discussed by professional bioethicists and it’s a disturbing one. If a self-driving car has two choices—say, hit a school bus full of small children or drive you and your car off a cliff to save the […]
