A self-driving Uber car on the road in Pittsburgh. By Johanna Zmud, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, for The Conversation What do self-driving cars and teenage drivers have in common? Experience. Or, more accurately, a lack of experience. Teenage drivers – novice drivers of any age, actually – begin with little…
People have to pass road tests – so should self-driving cars. (Africa Studio/Shutterstock) By Srikanth Saripalli, associate professor in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, for The Conversation What should a self-driving car do when a nearby vehicle is swerving unpredictably back and forth on the road, as if its driver…
Sensor arrays atop and along the bumpers of a research vehicle at Texas A&M. (Swaroopa Saripalli/The Conversation) By Srikanth Saripalli, associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, for The Conversation In early November, a self-driving shuttle and a delivery truck collided in Las Vegas. The event, in…
By Texas A&M Transportation Institute As part of the Campus Transportation Technology Initiative, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)—in partnership with Texas A&M Transportation Services and Texas A&M University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering—is testing a self-driving shuttle to improve campus mobility. TTI invites students, the local community and…
A self-driving Uber car on the road in Pittsburgh. Jeff Inglis, The Conversation, CC BY-ND By Johanna Zmud and Paul Carlson, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, for The Conversation It’s been 60 years since the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine gave us the promise…
