Autonomous Vehicle News
Sensing UrgencyAutomotive industry representatives had a clear message at the EV Innovation & Technology conference at Humber College: act quickly or lose an opportunity. This follows a petition in July 2022 arguing that all EVs and hybrids should have noisemakers for pedestrian safety, regardless of manufacturing date. If passed by the NHTSA, this may impact 9.1 million cars, with the lack of a noisemaker being retroactively considered a safety defect. Beware, new driverAn autonomous Waymo vehicle in San Francisco has made its virtual instructors proud, driving into a construction site and stopping seconds before rolling into an open trench. In a statement by Waymo to the San Francisco Standard, the autonomous driving system alerted the assistance team of the issue after bringing the vehicle to a safe stop.