On the surface, you might not expect to find much in common between the five-time Stanley Cup-winning Pittsburgh Penguins professional hockey team and Argo AI, a leading self-driving technology company — other than the fact that they both call Pittsburgh home. But look closer and you’ll find that both organizations rely heavily on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and…
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess’s job revolves around making cars for people to drive, but last week, he went for a ride on the busy streets of Munich, Germany, in a vehicle unlike any he’d ever traveled in before: the autonomous driving ID. Buzz test vehicle developed in conjunction with VW’s partner Argo AI, an autonomous products and services…
In order for self-driving cars to integrate smoothly with other people and vehicles on the roads, they must do more than drive intelligently and safely: they must also drive naturalistically, like an experienced local driver. In this Watch and Learn article, Constantin Savtchenko, a Senior Staff Engineer at self-driving technology company Argo AI, takes us through a video of an…
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…
For over a century, organizations like SAE International (formerly, the Society of Automobile Engineers), have existed to provide the automotive industry with safety standards and best practices. The logic behind SAE is simple, and vital: vehicles, when manufactured incorrectly, can pose a serious threat—so let’s ensure that anyone building them does so in a way…
A lot of people who work in the technology industry are tantalized by the potential of autonomous vehicles. For them, true self-driving is the Holy Grail of innovation: A chance to put artificial intelligence to the ultimate test by reinventing transportation. That reinvention couldn’t be more relevant to Blind and low-vision people like myself. If…