Transportation news, curated through an EECS lense. Special interest and emphasis on autonomous vehicles, scalable solutions, cost-efficient transit (e.g. busses), innovations in infrastructure, security, IU/UX, and insights into the behavioral/legal/ethical aspects.

Daily Maverick – Braking news: Google’s driverless cars 2012-01-29 For those who believe there is no solution to the regular carnage on South African roads – a thousand or so killed this past holiday season, by way of example – think again. Google’s driverless car is here to save us. It has a couple of twists and turns to manoeuvre before we’re out of ...

Coming Soon to a Highway Near You: Driverless Cars | How to avoid sacrificing liberty for security 2012-01-29 "In the future it will be forbidden for safety reasons for people to drive cars," predicted Raul Rojas, professor at Berlin’s Free University (FU). "The cars of today are the horses of yesterday." via Coming Soon to a Highway Near You: Driverless Cars | How to avoid sacrificing liberty for security. Counterpoint: Freedom Über alles if the car ...

BMW Showcases Driverless Car in New Video | TheBlaze.com 2012-01-29 BMW announced its ConnectedDrive Connect technology for a semi-autonomous car in Aug. 2011, according to MotorSixty, but has just recently released a video showing of the new wheels. via BMW Showcases Driverless Car in New Video | TheBlaze.com. BMW semi-autonomous car, auf Deutsch! MotorSixty states that the system works on highways that have been pre-mapped by the manufacturer so ...

Green Car Congress: SARTRE project completes first successful on-road demo of multiple vehicle platooning 2012-01-29 The SARTRE project (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) (earlier post) has recently completed the first successful test demonstration of a multiple vehicle platoon, with Volvo Car Corporation as the only participating car manufacturer. The test fleet included a lead truck followed by three cars driven entirely autonomously at speeds of up to 90 km/h ...

Europe’s Driverless Car (Driver Still Required) – Technology Review 2012-01-29 European automakers pursue an evolutionary answer to Google’s experimental self-driving car. via Europe's Driverless Car (Driver Still Required) – Technology Review. “Driverless” technology will initially require a driver. And it will creep into everyday use much as airbags did: first as an expensive option in luxury cars, but eventually as a safety feature required by governments.

arXiv.org Search 2012-01-28 arXiv.org Search. “city traffic” paper search on arxiv

Conference Alerts – Topic Listing 2012-01-27 Conference Alerts – Topic Listing. Transportation conferences

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