#connected-driving

#connected-driving

The expansion of automatic license plate readers as a source of deep concern is evident as government authorities seek ways to target immigrant and transgender communities.

The integration of cameras to enable various video-based services in commercial vehicle environments has become one of the strongest trends over recent years, in a fleet video telematics sector that is set to grow by 16% globally to 2020.

On average, fuel prices are up almost a dollar per gallon, or 25 percent, according to AAA. For a nation as addicted to the automotive as we are, that's bad news. Except, of course, for electric vehicles.

Sometimes, they report the cars for signs of an illegal maneuver, like when in September, a driver operating the city's 45 electric bus noticed a Waymo trying to pass on double solid yellow lines at Stockton and Columbus, an intersection along its route. Or for a near miss-like, when, last December, a Waymo was caught by a city light rail train's video camera making a dangerous left turn at 'high speed.'

Kinetic's CEO Nikhil Naikal states, 'We have eyes, and when we need to correct vision, we go to an optometrist... In the same way, this is a digital prescription to correct the errors of the car's understanding of the world around it.'

Aurora, Kodiak, and Waabi are racing to eliminate drivers-a cost that represents up to 40% of per-mile trucking expenses, according to The New York Times. Aurora plans to grow from a handful of autonomous trucks to more than 200 by year's end, then thousands by 2027.

DoorDash's investment in Also aims to develop and accelerate the deployment of autonomous delivery at scale, focusing on areas not yet fully solved for, including intersections of roadways and bike lanes.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) said on Thursday that it has upgraded the probe it launched in October 2024 to what's known as an "engineering analysis," its highest level of scrutiny. It's a step that is often required before the agency tells a company to issue a recall.

Tesla's attorneys filed a complaint alleging the state "wrongfully and baselessly" labeled it a false advertiser, brazenly arguing that "it was impossible" to buy or use the "auto-pilot" software "without seeing clear and repeated statements that they do not make the vehicle autonomous." Yet, their fine-print defense clashes with Musk's failed promises and stunts, such as when he took his hands off the wheel on CBS's 60 Minutes in 2018 and proudly declared he was "not doing anything."