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The most important rivalry in autonomous driving is not between companies — it is between philosophies. Waymo and Tesla represent opposite answers to the same question:…
Parking is the most annoying part of driving. It’s low-speed, high-stress, and weirdly public — everyone watches you fail at parallel parking. So when…
Ask two people about self-driving cars and you will get two religions. The optimist sees the end of traffic deaths, the gift of mobility…
Pop the hood of a self-driving car — metaphorically, since there is no engine to see — and you find three technology families working…
Here’s a question I love asking people: how many eyes does a self-driving car have? Most people guess one or two — a camera,…
This is the article nobody wants to write and everybody needs to read. Autonomous vehicles have been involved in fatal crashes. People have died.…
Every self-driving car carries both LiDAR and radar, which tells you something important: this is not a contest with a winner. It is a…
Every car commercial now whispers the words “self-driving” like it’s a magic spell. But “self-driving” is doing an enormous amount of heavy lifting in…
There is a specific moment in every conversation about self-driving cars where someone asks, “So can I buy one yet?” And the honest answer…
LiDAR is the spinning hat on top of self-driving cars — the cylinder that whirs around, firing invisible lasers in every direction. It is…
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