Autonomous Cars
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From Carburetors to Code: Is the Car Show Dying, or Just Rebooting?
The Car Show was born in an era when making a vehicle fast, loud, and uniquely yours was the ultimate expression of cool. It’s a good time to ask how they will evolve since they are a staple of summer weekends, as iconic as picnics and peach cobbler. With more and more EVs and self…
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The Porsche Paradox: Old Performance Routs New EVs
The manual transmission had a long automotive run and gear-heads were reluctant to see it fade out. Today, electric vehicles (EV) and full self-driving (FSD) cars meet resistance for similar reasons. Just forty years ago, a third of new U.S. vehicles were equipped with stick shift, manual transmissions. Learners could not pass the driver’s exam…
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In Robot Cars We Trust or Do We?
One hundred years ago, society worried about what would happen when the traffic light failed and the electricity went down. One hundred years later, we are asking the same question to programmers of autonomous vehicles—only now, the answer involves gigabytes of data and millisecond-latency pings. To understand this, we take a quick look back at…
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Time- Well- Spent in Autonomous Vehicles
For decades, transportation planning has focused on a core metric: getting people from Point A to Point B with maximum efficiency. We optimize for utility, comparing the personal car to public transit on the basis of “Time Saved.” But the autonomous vehicle (AV) revolution demands a more sophisticated model. It’s not just about the clock…