Peoria, Ariz., has launched an autonomous shuttle pilot project in a medical district as an extension of the local transit service. The project will help officials gauge the public’s comfort level with the emerging tech.
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Regulatory Landscapes Determine Paths for AV Futures
States like Arizona and Texas have positioned themselves as hubs for autonomous vehicle testing and deployments, in part, by creating regulatory landscapes that are easy for new companies to navigate.
July 23, 2021 • The regulatory landscape can play an outsized role in determining where autonomous vehicle projects land.
As the nascent industry seeks to grow and expand its reach and technology, it has encountered a regulatory environment ranging from the cautiously optimistic and welcoming, to more guarded and watchful.
Nuro, a company making self-driving delivery vehicles partnering with major retailers like CVS and Kroger, launched its service in Houston, in part because of the low level of regulatory hurdles in Texas.
Newness of AV Tech Insists Upon Public, Private Collaboration
The 10th annual Transportation Research Board Automated Road Transportation Symposium explored the myriad policy questions and debates surrounding connected and autonomous vehicle technology.
July 13, 2021 •
Shutterstock/Zapp2Photo Advancing autonomous vehicle technologies is bringing together government and the private sector in collaborations both say are not always familiar, but are very necessary.
“I think it’s going to take a lot of collaboration within industry, between industry and government to kind of share these lessons learned and best practices so that everybody can evolve and learn, and bring this technology to market,” said Michael Shapiro, deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Velodyne Lidar CEO Anand Gopalan Featured Speaker at Reuters Smart Infrastructure & Energy Week
May 12, 2021 GMT
SAN JOSE, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) May 12, 2021
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. (Nasdaq: VLDR, VLDRW) today announced CEO Anand Gopalan will speak on intelligent infrastructure and the convergence of connected and autonomous vehicles, at the Smart Infrastructure & Energy Week online event. Gopalan will discuss how this convergence, powered by lidar hardware and software, can drive autonomous solutions that advance safe, sustainable and accessible transportation and smart communities.
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Velodyne Lidar CEO Anand Gopalan will speak on intelligent infrastructure and the convergence of connected and autonomous vehicles at the Smart Infrastructure & Energy Week online event. Gopalan will discuss how this convergence, powered by lidar hardware and software, can drive autonomous sol
Waymoâs driverless ride service moves metro Phoenix toward autonomous future Waymo has logged more than 20 million miles on public roads. (Source: Cronkite News) By Casey Flanagan | December 24, 2020 at 6:11 AM MST - Updated December 24 at 6:11 AM
PHOENIX â The roadways of metro Phoenix may not look much different 10 years from now, but how we travel them might.
We may have more vehicles without drivers behind the wheel, according to Andrew Maynard, an associate dean at Arizona State Universityâs College of Global Futures. Artificial intelligence packed with centuriesâ worth of driving knowledge â which takes human error out of the equation â will control vehicles on Arizona roads.