Berlin public transport in real time (VBB-Livekarte) 2015-11-22 Why can’t we have nice things? HT HackerNews

LA Auto Show: Quanergy Systems – News Releases 2015-11-22 Quanergy Systems, Inc. will introduce in early 2016 the world’s first solid state LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensor for self-driving cars for less than $1,000 per car, it was announced today at the Los Angeles Auto Show’s Connected Car Expo. 8-beam solid state (vs mechanical) LiDAR via LA Auto Show: Quanergy Systems – News Releases. HT NextBigFuture

What happens when a self-driving car gets pulled over by a cop? Nothing – Quartz 2015-11-13 Best headline ever. Earlier this week, one of its cars was driving on the El Camino Real, a road with a speed limit of 35 mph. A police officer noticed that traffic was backing up on the road, caught up to the vehicle causing the jam, and realized it was one of Google’s koala-shaped cars, driving ...

Report says Uber surge pricing has a twist: some drivers flee – SFGate 2015-11-02 When his Uber app notifies him about a surge, a price increase in an area where rider demand is high, Sollars knows just what to do: He drives his black Ford Escape somewhere else. “The seasoned drivers don’t pay any attention to surge,” he said. “By the time you get to that part of the city, ...

Waze – Did it Steal Data from a Rival Traffic App? – Neurogadget.com 2015-10-29 How did PhantomAlert discover the theft? PhantomAlert claims that it became aware of the data theft after realizing that Waze displayed its proprietary information. The traffic app maker claimed that Waze used information for which they never obtained authorization or consent. PhantomAlert goes ahead to say that Waze not only copied it’s database, but also went ...

Waze’s RideWith carpooling app (Israel) 2015-10-29 RideWith uses technology developed by Waze, an Israeli start-up bought by Google in 2013 for about $1bn. Its navigation system, which uses data from users’ smartphones to give live traffic information, learns the routes drivers most frequently take to work and matches them up with people wanting to travel in the same direction. It is aimed at ...

Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill | MIT Technology Review 2015-10-29 The results are interesting, if predictable. In general, people are comfortable with the idea that self-driving vehicles should be programmed to minimize the death toll. This utilitarian approach is certainly laudable but the participants were willing to go only so far. “ were not as confident that autonomous vehicles would be programmed that way in reality—and ...