Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Self-driving vehicles

  • Hayden Field writes in his article for MIT Technology Review, Self-driving cars are being trained in virtual worlds while the real one is in chaos: “For safety reasons, autonomous vehicles typically have two operators apiece. That’s a no-go in the age of social distancing, and leaders of autonomous-vehicle companies knew they’d have to mothball their…

  • Professor Mohammed Quddus of the university, the principal investigator on the project, says: “Although CAVs are designed with existing infrastructure in mind, ensuring they are safe to operate on motorways will require evaluating how road layouts affects their operational boundaries such as their ability to sense lanes and make appropriate decisions.”

  • Emily Hayter, lead software architect at WAN data acceleration provider Bridgeworks, finds that currently there are an insufficient number of cross-industry collaborations. However, she finds that there are many start-ups that “may be more open to partnerships to cover the bases”. She adds: “Part of that view comes from all of the large vehicle manufacturers,…

  • AI and machine learning in autonomous vehicles can be limited, so nobody should expect them to instantly be able to cope with every potential scenario. Their development has to be taken with a sense of caution to prevent unintended consequences from occurring. The limitations of CAVs aren’t just about the AI and machine learning technology.…

  • With ‘new build’ housing the situation is going to be slightly easier. Cousens explains why: “The government is signaling that any new build with an allocated parking place should have a charging point. Any new streetlights on any new development, or where they are replacing any old streetlights, are to be fitted with EV charging…

  • Yuan Zhang, associate director, mobility 2030 at KPMG adds: “Basically, if we take a fully autonomous vehicle as Level 4 (i.e. operates in limited conditions with no driver intervention), you will most likely see those vehicles on UK public roads in trials only. There will be an autonomous bus crossing the Forth Road Bridge in…

  • the new business model is about aggregation – a model within which fintechs can play a role as different companies will bundle together a diverse range of products and services. Much depends on who owns the customer interface though. Kemp and Zhang, therefore, advise companies to consider whether they want to play “the aggregator or…

  • Ptolemus Consulting’s December 2019 email newsletter says fleet insurance telematics premiums will reach $22Bn globally, by 2030. It reports that it has seen “rapid growth of connected fleet solutions in commercial vehicles and company cars: from 37 million in 2016 to 64.1 million in 2019”. It also finds that connected fleet UBI policies will reach…

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of WAN data acceleration company Bridgeworks, offers some supporting comments: “The one thing that companies overlook when considering the Cloud is the latency between the data point and the Cloud. This can have a dramatic effect on the performance of the connection. For those time critical operations, it is better…

  • With a suite of sensors, it’s possible to gather all of the types of information required to keep connected and autonomous vehicles safe on the road. While the data is collated from radar, LiDAR and cameras, the information gleaned from them has to become fused to create a complete and comprehensive view of the world…