Stop, yield, no U-turn, no turn on red, railroad crossing, children playing, falling rocks — there are a huge variety of road signs out there that drivers are expected to recognize to get around safely. We human beings typically learn about them in school, driver’s ed courses, and going about our daily lives. But signs…
Don’t believe the hype. No matter how many driver assistance features you put in a car today, that doesn’t make it self-driving. Why? Because driver assistance and self-driving are two fundamentally different things. Driver assistance technology still requires you to drive. Potentially less than having no assistance at all, but you still have to focus…
What links winter sports athletes in China, pizza fans in France, burger lovers in California, and coffee drinkers in Singapore? Answer: They’ve all enjoyed food that has been prepared by and maybe even served by kitchen robots. It sounds fun, but restaurant automation is no gimmick. Restaurants offer not just convenience, but also a highly…
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Argo AI Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research, a private-public partnership funded by Argo for advancing the autonomous-vehicle (AV) field, say they have come up with a way to use lidar data to visualize not just where other moving objects are currently on the roads — but where they are likely to be several…
People often ask me who is winning the self-driving car race: Is it Tesla? GM? Google? Nvidia? You guys at Argo? Some of the folks asking are investors. Some are looking for a job. All of them are trying to evaluate the state of the self-driving sector. But all of them are using the wrong framing device. If…
Growing up in a small town in Michigan, I saw the full spectrum of transportation options: passenger cars, farm tractors, bicycles, even horses. And I saw all sorts of other things using the roads, from people out for a walk, to wildlife, to the occasional farm animal. But in the era of the automobile, I…
