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Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Volvo to debut self-driving feature in California using Luminar sensor - Reuters

Volvo to debut self-driving feature in California using Luminar sensor Reuters

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Are You Ready For Self-Driving Cars?

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Thursday, August 30, 2018

Toyota Michigan research center probes self-driving safety issues

Jason Hallman, principal engineer for safety and crashworthiness at Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America: "Let's go back to the drawing board. Let's think a little more about this." Photo credit: HANS GREIMEL

DETROIT — For decades, automakers have studied what happens to people inside cars when the vehicles crash with an alert driver behind the wheel.

But engineers are only beginning to understand how bodies might be flung around inside autonomous vehicles when the "driver" is checking email, watching TV or even sleeping.

The question matters because occupants of self-driving cars might need a host of new safety technologies to protect them.

Drivers and riders might not brace for impact or even be facing forward at all, if futuristic visions for self-driving lounge spaces come to fruition.

Toyota Motor Corp. just completed its biggest in-depth study of the matter, chronicling the body movements of people in simulated near crashes of autonomous vehicles.

Its conclusion: A lot more research is needed.

"We want to be able to offer improved technologies, based on what new postures might be present in a vehicle equipped with automated crash avoidance technologies," said Jason Hallman, the principal safety and crashworthiness engineer who led the one-year study.

"All we have is this hypothesis that maybe the posture would be different. We can't make any new technology or new design without knowing conclusively what we should be designing to," Hallman said. "But we don't know what that posture might be."

Toyota ran the study on 87 volunteers at the University of Michigan's Mcity autonomous driving testing ground in Ann Arbor from 2016 through 2017. It will release full findings in October at a conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.

Surprising results

Volunteers spanned a wide range of body sizes and ages, from 18 to 65. They were driven around Mcity by a human standing in for a self-driving system under the guise of a comfort study. The unsuspecting subjects were told to sit in the passenger seat and then put through a regimen of extreme evasive safety maneuvers, such as sudden lane changes and severe braking. Toyota researchers measured how their bodies moved.

Results surprised Hallman's team. Researchers couldn't find a pattern in the way people's bodies reacted under the drastic driving conditions. Some braced themselves. Others just let the safety belt catch them. Some swayed this way; others leaned that way.

"We found a large variation," Hallman said. "Before this, everyone had assumed we had kind of figured it out, that we actually knew, or we could predict where you'd be in the seat."

Toyota's study was inconclusive, other than realizing the need for more study. Said Hallman: "So, what this has left us with is: Let's go back to the drawing board. Let's think a little more about this."

U.S. research

Future research could pinpoint what changes might be needed in seat belts, airbags or seat construction to keep people safe in autonomous vehicles, Toyota says.

Toyota's research is one of several programs underway at the Japanese carmaker's Collaborative Safety Research Center. Toyota established the U.S. auto safety research center in 2011 in response to the unintended acceleration crisis that led to the recall of millions of its cars. But over the years, it has expanded in size and scope.

Toyota says it will start planning a follow-up study on crash posture this year. The carmaker will listen to input from suppliers and customers in devising the next round.

"The suppliers of seats have ideas about zero-gravity seats that can twist in different angles and have footrests so that you're in a La-Z-Boy in your car," Hallman said.

Customers, meanwhile, say they want to use electronic devices, hold conversations or work while riding in an autonomous vehicle.

Another area ripe for research is motion sickness, Hallman said. That's an acute problem for people focused on email, videos or paperwork inside a moving vehicle.

"When you're focused on something that's not moving — inside of something that is, it seems to increase the risk of motion sickness," Hallman said. "That wild card causes me to pause in speculating about what might require additional consideration for crash protection."

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Lyft surpasses 5,000 self-driving rides with Aptiv fleet

In January, Lyft began offering rides in self-driving BMWs in Las Vegas.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Lyft has completed more than 5,000 self-driving rides through its ride-hailing app, the company said on Tuesday, as it seeks to become a serious competitor in autonomous driving while its biggest rival, Uber, retrenches.

Lyft launched its self-driving service in January in Las Vegas, where passengers can take a ride in an autonomous BMW to and from some 20?pickup and destination spots around the city's casino-laden Strip. The autonomous driving system is not built by Lyft, however, but by high-tech auto parts supplier Aptiv, which Lyft partnered with?this year.

Lyft is developing its own self-driving system, but company officials have declined to say when it will be ready for public streets. Lyft is far behind competitors such as Waymo, which has been testing autonomous cars for about a decade.

The Las Vegas service is available to all Lyft passengers, who get a prompt asking whether they agree to ride in a self-driving car. If their destination is along one of the approved routes, they may get picked up by a robot car. Two safety drivers are in the front seats.

Lyft and Aptiv declined to provide financial details on the service, which costs passengers the same as a Lyft ride in a human-driven car, but both companies "are making money on this," said Jody Kelman, product lead for Lyft's self-driving platform.

Aptiv has a fleet of 75 self-driving cars in Las Vegas, 20 of which are picking up Lyft passengers. The company is a spinoff of Delphi Automotive, which last year acquired self-driving startup NuTonomy, which is also testing self-driving cars in Singapore and Boston. Aptiv and NuTonomy are working to integrate their systems.

Lyft has several partnerships in the self-driving sector, but the deal with Aptiv is the only one so far to result in rides for the public. Lyft was late to self-driving cars, announcing just more than a year ago plans for an autonomous driving development center in Silicon Valley.

Lyft's chief rival, Uber Technologies Inc., has meanwhile retrenched from its self-driving ambitions.?After a fatal accident in March in Arizona, in which an Uber?crossover operating in self-driving mode killed a pedestrian, Uber suspended its self-driving testing and shuttered its operations in Arizona, its chief testing ground.

Uber has not yet reintroduced its self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, as it said it would by this summer. And last month, Uber ended its work on self-driving trucks.

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VW pursued self-driving startup Aurora, report says

Volkswagen AG is on the hunt for self-driving technology and recently tried to buy Aurora Innovation, an autonomous-driving startup founded by veterans of Tesla Inc. and Alphabet Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

The German carmaker has been scouring Silicon Valley for targets or partnerships that can help it develop self-driving cars and other mobility technology. Volkswagen had talks to buy Aurora, which is already a partner, only to be rebuffed because the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company wanted to maintain its independence and work with multiple carmakers, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private.

For Volkswagen, the search to purchase self-driving technology is a play to catch up to rivals that have forged ahead for several years. Alphabet’s Waymo unit is seen as the leader, and rival automakers have bought self-driving technology developers. Buying Aurora or another company would follow moves by rivals to align with AI specialists. General Motors Co. paid more than $1 billion to acquire Cruise Automation in 2016 and Ford is investing $1 billion to take a stake in Argo AI.

A Volkswagen spokesman declined to comment. Aurora, which has raised $90 million in venture capital, declined to comment.

Robotaxi race

Automotive manufacturers are racing to develop self-driving vehicles to get into the business of selling transportation as a service with robotaxis, rather than just selling cars. GM Cruise LLC attracted a $2.25 billion investment from Japanese private equity fund SoftBank Vision Fund in May, which effectively valued the unit at $11.5 billion.

Aurora is the brain child of Sterling Anderson, the former director of autonomy for Tesla, Drew Bagnell from Uber Technologies Inc. and Chris Urmson, who headed Alphabet’s self-driving car project before it was named Waymo. Volkswagen and Aurora announced a partnership at the CES technology show in Las Vegas in January. Volkswagen said it planned to use Aurora’s self-driving system, including sensors, hardware and machine-learning and artificial-intelligence software, in its vehicle platforms.

At CES, Aurora also announced a similar partnership with South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co., which is integrating Aurora’s technology into the Nexo fuel-cell vehicle.

Crucial pivot

VW Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess, in the job since April, has pledged to adapt the world’s biggest automaker to accelerating industry change, highlighting innovation as a key pillar in that quest. Presiding over a sprawling 12-brand empire that includes supercars costing more than 1 million euros ($1.16 million), mass-market delivery vans and motorcycles, Diess is trying to emerge from the long shadow of the diesel-engine emissions cheating crisis.

The company plans to form new partnerships or make acquisitions of software companies, Diess told German newspaper Handelsblatt in an interview this week. Volkswagen hopes to present results in the coming months, he said. Automakers’ survival will depend on mastering the digital transformation, a task even more important to tackle successfully than the switch to electric vehicles, Diess told the newspaper.

VW Chief Digital Officer Johann Jungwirth left that position in July to set up a new business for the automaker in California focusing on mobility as a service. He aims to start commercial operations with a fleet of self-driving taxis in the U.S. in 2021, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Volkswagen may have to find another player to acquire. At CES, Urmson told Bloomberg in an interview that the company’s goal is to deploy its technology into many vehicles. He said he was attracted to working with Volkswagen and Hyundai because they sell millions of cars in markets around the globe.

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