Robot cars saving the planet — part two

Last year at BIL many enjoyed my talk introducing the concepts of robocars – autonomous robotic transportation and delivery vehicles able to drive on ordinary streets mixed with regular traffic. In the prior talk I explained why the vehicles are coming soon, showed videos of today’s models and talked about some of the consequences, including saved lives, and enabling the marketable electric car, and thus weaning the USA off of foreign oil and solving energy problems in the grandest way computer technology can do when Moore’s law comes to transportation. This this follow-up talk I will cover more of the roadmap for how we get to robocars, the downsides, and why energy may be the problem that brings the world to robocars (even though traffic deaths and congestion are still bigger issues.) I’ll also cover new issues and concepts developed in the last year, including new whistlecar concepts and parking algorithms. (I only had 15 minutes last year.) Details can be found at http://robocars.net

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