In this week’s The Long View: Herbert Diess is out at VW because software is hard (yo), fiber optic cable is hard to find, and the guy who said LaMDA was sentient is dumped by Google.
Driverless Cars May Become an Integral Part of Our Lives Soon
If you live in the downtown areas of Pittsburgh, Palo Alto, Miami or other AV hot spots, you’ve probably been missing the Ford Fusion Hybrids with the bulky lidar sensors in your neighborhoods. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many job cuts as well as work from home orders from the government, and this has […]
When Automation Predictions Come To Be: Transportation as a Service
Back in December of 2016 I wrote an article for staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud titled, “What Do We Do When Everything is Automated?” in which I made a prediction: Also, think about this: As Uber and Lyft mature in the business landscape and self-driving cars become commonplace, the ride-share companies will replace human-driven vehicles with self-driving vehicles. Then, […]



