Autonomous Vehicles Promise to be Disruptive, but a Boost to Safety
Pulling his Tesla Model S onto Highway 1 from McGill Avenue, Bruce Sharpe clicks a lever on the steering column to engage its adaptive cruise control, which takes control of managing the car’s distance from the truck ahead and watches for vehicles around it.
Click it again, and the car’s sensors and systems start to steer around a slight curve in the road following the centre of the lane. Sharpe’s hands are off the wheel, though hovering nearby in case he needs to take control.
“It does a great job with just tracking (the lane and surrounding traffic), so that you don’t have to do all of that steering yourself,” Sharpe said.
New Innovations from Telogis Optimize and Automate Processes to Help Make Work Outside the Four Walls Easier
Telogis recently introduced a number of next-generation extensions to the award-winning Telogis Mobile Resource Management (MRM) software platform at its annual Latitude business conference. The new apps and solutions were developed to help customers run safer, more efficient and productive organizations.
The recently introduced extensions include:
- Telogis Spotlight
- Telogis Compliance
- Telogis Dispatch
- Telogis ControlRoom
You can read more about these new solutions, and get a demo here.
Ford Beefs Up Its Safety Tech with New Collision Avoidance, Adaptive Headlights, and More
Last week, Ford showed off its new, predictive pedestrian detection system, which is slated to debut on the 2017 Ford Fusion. But that's not the only safety technology that Ford's been working on. The automaker has unveiled a host of high-tech features that will soon appear on Ford vehicles worldwide.
Here are some of the ones we're most excited about:
Evasive Steering Alert: This similar to the collision avoidance feature found on some other automobiles. Like them, Ford's Evasive Steering system scans the road ahead for problems, sounds an alert if an obstacle appears, and can even apply the brakes.
Feds Launch Alt-Fuel Highway Network
With the upcoming launch of longer-range, more affordable electric vehicles the auto industry is taking several critical steps towards making alternative power mainstream, but range anxiety isn’t yet a thing of the past.
Now, the federal government is taking steps to address the other big problem: a lack of places to charge electric vehicles.
The plan announced by the Obama Administration will include 55 different interstates, covering 25,000 miles of highway in 35 states.
Future Cities Could Run On Shared Fleets of Electric Self-Driving Cars
Coming to a city near you in 2030.
Over the coming decades, a dozen dense and developed cities may aggressively use shared fleets of electric and self-driving cars that could be summoned to pick up passengers and shuttle them to offices and stores.
Such cars, which could carry anywhere from two passengers to 20 passengers, could cost less to use and be more convenient than owning a car, according to a new report from the research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance on Tuesday.
