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Autonomous Vehicles Technology to support autonomous vehicles is already available. Think about military drones -UAV, Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles-, automated subway trains… You can also think about early versions of autonomous cars, like Waymo. Technology might not be totally affordable, it might require further enhancement but it is here. The reasons …

3. Industry platforms II A separate post to discuss a quite different sort of platform, the car platform. It has been used by the car manufacturing industry for over 50 years now as a way to decrease the cost of production. The idea is to have a common base: floor …

Doesn’t matter who you are talking to, car manufacturers, trucking companieus, taxi drivers and lay people, everybody perceives that the coming of self-driving cars is going to produce a disruption in the transportation area and in the transportation value chain. There are perceptual aspects, such as “if I have a …

Intelligence The huge, growing amount of data we have available, is powering data analytics and artificial intelligence is taking advantage of that. Notice how Digital Twins have “embedded” some of the Vs characterising big data: Volume: the volume of data aggregated in a digital twin varies considerably depending on the …

Self driving cars will reach the mass market in the next decade, although we can expect a real take up the the following decades. It will most likely be an electric car, although self driving and electric cars are independent evolutions that will just happen, because of time frame, to …

For those of you that are not familiar with US highways, they have a peculiar sign indicating a reserved lane (sometimes more than one) for cars with 2 or more people on board. And if you happen to drive on those highway you’ll be surprised to see how many cars …

Let me now consider what may happen, in terms of Digital Transformation, in the area of private transportation (cars). It helps looking back at how the car market evolved. At the very start cars where an artisanal product, there was no standardisation and no rules of operation (the roads were …

At the end of 2018 Waymo launched its first commercial taxi service using fully autonomous vehicles.  A few hundreds people in Phoenix, AZ, who participated in the trial can now order a Waymo One taxi using the app on their smartphone. No need to indicate the pick up point, the …

As a few (big) companies are working on making self driving cars safe and affordable a few (small) companies are looking at the delivery market with autonomous vehicles. Nuro has started delivering grocery in Scottsdale, Az, at Fry’s store in partnership with Kroger, the giant food store chain in the …

As part of its Future Mobility Grand Challenge – watch the clip- the UK Government is funding the creation of a sophisticated ambient simulator, OmniCAV,  recreating 32 km of Oxfordshire roads, including rural and village roads. OmiCAV will be used as a testing environment for CAV -Connected Autonomous Vehicles- and it …