It is really starting to look as if 2024 will be, not just the break-out year for autonomous vehicles (GM's Cruise débâcle notwithstanding) but also the year the wider investing public recognizes the progress that has been made in self-driving vehicles.
From Semafor, December 26:
China’s WeRide to test robot buses in Singapore
NEWS
Chinese autonomous vehicle firm WeRide has been granted test licenses for robot buses in Singapore, part of an ambitious expansion plan to bring driverless buses to major metropolises around the world.
As cities look to automate their transport systems, Chinese autonomous vehicle (AV) companies are leading the way, testing vehicles including robot buses, vans and road sweepers.SIGNALS
Singapore’s small size and advanced road infrastructure have helped to make it one of the leading countries for driverless buses. The island nation even built a mini-town – complete with a rain machine to simulate the island’s frequent tropical downpours – as a test circuit. Automated public transport could help Singapore to overcome some of the challenges faced by one of densest and fastest-aging populations in the world. With a quarter of its people set to be over the age of 65 by 2030, Singapore hopes driverless buses will help ease mobility issues for seniors and solve a future shortage of bus drivers....
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Yesterday:
HBR—AI Takes the Wheel: New Advances in Autonomous Driving
Because of our interest in AI and electric vehicles and such, we've been posting on autonomous vehicles for many, many years, from the big advances in super-heavy-duty mining equipment, wiping out some of the best-paying blue collar jobs in the world to autonomous ships/boats to the evolution of the technology for personal vehicles.
In 2017's "Izabella
Kaminska In Conversation With the Financial Times' Auto Industry
Correspondent, Peter Campbell, on the Prospects for Autonomous Vehicles" I was so taken by the electro-mechanical system for maintaining physical clarity of Waymo's LIDAR that it became an icon for us:
