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Why Europe's Biggest Railway is Working on Self-Driving Cars

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Getting people on a train isn’t the hard part; it’s getting them to the train station or bus stop that has long vexed public transit companies and urban planners. Deutsche Bahn, a German-based railway and logistics company that transports about seven million train passengers every day, thinks the answer is self-driving cars.

- The massive company plans to operate fleets of autonomous vehicles that could be ordered via an app, much people already do when they order a ride-hailing service like Uber. These driverless cars would be used to pick people up and bring them to public transit stations, solving the so-called “last mile” problem. --- The company is currently working on autonomous vehicle technology, Deutsche Bahn chief Rüdiger Grube said in an interview with German newspaper Wirtshafts Woche. Grube didn’t provide much detail, nor he did give a timeline on when the technology might be tested or widely deployed.

- Deutsche Bahn isn’t the only public transit company experimenting with autonomous technology. Dutch company 2getthere has developed autonomous pods that can transport 24 passengers in each vehicle. The company has partnered with SMRT Services, a subsidiary of Singapore’s rail and bus network operator SMRT, to deploy the pods on the Southeast Asian island by the end of the year. A Singaporean startup also recently announced the setting up of driverless taxis in the country. --- Other startups are developing autonomous shuttles to transport people to and from cities. For instance, WePods launched an autonomous shuttle service this year in the Dutch province of Gelderland.

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Driverless Buses Are Coming To Public-Transit-Phobic Beverly Hills

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In about a decade, Beverly Hills will be getting two new stops on a local subway line that connects to downtown L.A. The city knew that there wouldn't be an easy way for many people to reach the subway; unlike some other subway stops, neither will have a park-and-ride lot for commuters to leave cars.

- "I think my initial thought was that this would be a terrific solution to the first and last mile challenge," says John Mirisch, mayor of Beverly Hills. "But beyond that, it would provide point-to-point mobility to people in the city—which could take a lot of cars off the streets. Of course, in any place in Southern California, that's a very good thing." --- In the new system, driverless shuttles will come on demand to riders, via an Uber-like app, using an algorithm to pick up other riders along the most convenient route.

- Beverly Hills thinks that it won't have to charge more for a ticket than a regular bus, so it should be accessible for the people who are currently using public transportation. It will just be more pleasant to use. --- "Transportation's a very labor-intensive business, the way it works now," says Mirisch. "You can cut costs by using autonomous vehicles. I look at this as a true democratization of transportation—if you get people, so to speak, at the same level that they all choose public transportation because it is the most convenient and best form of transportation."

- Rather than waiting at a bus stop, the shuttles would come to a rider—particularly a bonus for the elderly or disabled. And because the route is automatically optimized, the ride isn't supposed to take as long as circling through a set route. At the same time, like other public transit, people wouldn't have to deal with paying attention to traffic or struggling to find parking. Because of the pace of development of autonomous vehicles, the city believes that the system can be in place before the new subway stops open in 2026.

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Driverless Technology Can Bring A Golden Age Of Mass Transit

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Today frequency is expensive and usually becomes available only for lines that already have high ridership.

- If labor is no longer part of the operating cost of a bus, one can scale that cost within a much greater range. One can make a decision that frequency will be constant at a vehicle every 5 minutes all day long and to keep the cost per rider constant, run ever smaller vehicles as demand goes down in off-peak times. Every 5 minutes in rush hour? Yes, still a 115-person 60-foot bus. Every 5 minutes at midnight? Probably an 8-person van or a minibus. At 3am? The same minibus waiting in a layover bay for the first passenger on the line to request it.

- As cities become denser, the demand for people moved per hour per street increases proportionally to the population increase. Street space, however, does not. As established in the supply and demand of street space, while a general purpose lane can move 1,440 people per hour, a bus lane can move more than 4 times as much at 6,000 people per hour! This is a capacity benefit equivalent to building 3 more lanes of road at the cost of not much more than paint. Since other road expansion options are cost-prohibitive at scale it is safe to assume that we will see more space dedicated for high-occupancy vehicles.

- And while bus lanes certainly enable moving more people on the same stretch of road, on many corridors it may make sense to utilize less constrained HOV lanes with a demand-based minimum number of people per vehicle. This would open the gates for mass transit with smaller vehicles – vans, minibuses or even just full cars–and also both public and private use. It’s likely that a significant portion of future mass transit will look like this.

- In conclusion, if mass transit remains cheaper than personal cars, is frequent enough to compete with its level of freedom and travels faster during rush hour, will it still be killed by driverless cars? Not by a longshot. It is more likely to experience a new renaissance with service better than ever before and will help us derive new returns even on pre-existing infrastructure investments, so we should keep funding them.

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Why high-tech parking lots for autonomous cars may change urban planning

Read More: http://www.curbed.com/2016/8/8/12404...urban-planning

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New self-parking systems mean more space and more adaptive structures, but only if planners, architects, and designers start thinking ahead.

- Outside of Nashville, Tennessee, an office-park and mixed-use under development called Brentwood will have subterranean facilities that takes advantage of forthcoming technologies to repurpose valuable above-ground space and leave a smaller footprint. --- Brian Wright, founding Principal of Town Planning & Urban Design Collaborative, the company handling the Nashville project, told Car & Driver that planning for a new kind of garage was "a paradigm shift."

- The bigger philosophical shift, that a surfeit of close and convenient parking spaces isn't necessary for a successful downtown district, could inspire huge shifts in how bigger developments are zoned and laid out. Will this smarter, more efficient type of parking shifts spaces for cars to the edge of pedestrian friendly zones, and make it easier to create dense, walkable spaces? Will smarter parking open up roadways and make more room for cyclists and pedestrians?

- Amy Korte, principal designer at Boston-based architectural firm Arrowstreet, told Boston.com that she envisions a future where self-navigating cars need much less space to park, allowing planners to cut 4 inches off either side of a traditional space. --- That means vehicular storage spaces can be reactivated. Experts at her firm estimate that the rise in driverless vehicles, as well as the wider adoption of sharing services such as Zipcar, will reduce the overall demand for parking will decline by 5.7 billion square meters by 2035.

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Meh, who cares about self-driving cars. Get excited PT nerds: https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...buses-helsinki

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Note the three modes of operation! Metro, Bus and On-demand. Tech specs here: http://easymile.com/mobility-solution/
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Beyond Autonomous Vehicles

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The most forward thinkers are already looking beyond autonomous vehicles to the next disruptive revolution in mobility: autonomous pedestrians.

- Technically defined as autonomous Platforms for Extended Distribution (or PEDs for short), current generation autonomous pedestrian technology is already displaying incredible capabilities in navigating and engaging a wide range of physical environments.

- Autonomous PED modules are highly efficient and cost effective. Powered by renewable biofuels, autonomous PED modules produce far less greenhouse gases than traditional fossil-fuel powered vehicles. Autonomous pedestrians even compete favorably with electric vehicles, which require external sources of electricity.

- With a compact shape, light weight, and efficient organic machine propulsion, autonomous pedestrians provide a revolutionary low-impact transport method that frees up vast economic resources devoted to traditional transportation costs while simultaneously promoting long term environmental health and sustainability.

- While traditional automobiles and autonomous vehicles both incur wear and tear over time, the range, speed, and durability of autonomous pedestrians increase in a relationship directly proportional to their use. The more autonomous PED networks are employed, the better they work, and the further they can travel.

- Unfortunately, our traditional transportation networks are designed to be highly static, with generational time horizons, high cost, and highly inefficient use of physical space and resources. Part of the genius of autonomous pedestrian technology is that it disrupts these traditional transportation paradigms, enabling a more flexible, capable, and affordable approach to mobility.

- These networks can be constructed and operated as a parallel overlay to the streets that serve the autonomous automobile platform. These parallel connections are sometimes described as side Waypoints for Applied Local Kinetics, or sideWALKs for short. Years of research and beta testing have identified highly successful approaches to interface sideWALKs with other mobility networks.

- Forward-thinking communities have great potential to de-monopolize obsolete automobile vehicle movement as the dominant priority for streets, public spaces, and other shared infrastructure. By taking a more integrated and multi-function approach, smart cities can nourish nascent autonomous pedestrian technology, and simultaneously reap economic, social, and environmental benefits.

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Self-Driving Cars Are Coming, Whether You're Ready Or Not

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The auto industry is speeding to put autonomous cars on the road as quickly as it can.

- Tesla, BMW, Audi and Jaguar, are just some of the dozens of other carmakers pushing hard to develop autonomous technologies meant to take some of the control out of a driver's hands—and place them squarely with a computer.Ford Motor Company, founded more than 100 years ago, is even promising cars on the road without steering wheels nor pedals by 2021.

- And whether drivers agree or not, they're already using computer programs in their cars to help make their drives safer. Consider Telsa's Autopilot feature which can keep a car from veering out of lane—or change lanes of the driver instructs among other features. Or BMW's parking assistance which can park your car—after you leave.

- More autonomous features are coming. The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) reached an agreement with automakers in March to get automatic brakes in 99 percent of new cars by 2022. And the U.S. DOT is working on new tech to help prevent drunk driving, and tools that would allow car to car communications.

- So can computers do a better job than we do controlling a 4,000 pound machine? The statistics lean towards yes. Even for those of us who don't get into our cars impaired in some way—making sure we aren't driving drunk, or we've had enough sleep—driver error still accounts for about 94 percent of all car crashes, according to NHTSA. We are, as the saying goes, only human.

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The city is the first in the nation to reveal how it will make shared, self-driving vehicles a key part of our public transit future

Read More: http://la.curbed.com/2016/9/9/128242...an-los-angeles

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A new report that provides a roadmap for the city’s transportation future. The report, which was shared with Curbed LA and has been posted online, addresses the city’s plan to combine self-driving vehicles (buses included) with on-demand sharing services to create a suite of smarter, more efficient transit options.

- Simply being smarter about how Angelenos move from one place to another brings additional benefits: alleviating vehicular congestion, potentially eliminating traffic deaths, and tackling climate change—where transportation is now the fastest-growing contributor to greenhouse gases. And it will also impact the way the city looks, namely by reclaiming the streets and parking lots devoted to the driving and storing of cars that sit motionless 95 percent of the time. The report is groundbreaking because it makes LA the first U.S. city to specifically address policies around self-driving cars.

- To prove to you that LA is thinking about autonomous vehicles in a different way, consider that this plan was authored by an architect. Ashley Z. Hand was brought on as part of a year-long LADOT fellowship which ended last month (she is currently the co-founder of CityFi, a smart city advisory practice). She says she believes space is the key to solving a lot of LA’s transportation problems. --- "Transportation and land-use are inextricably linked," she says. "How far things are in your life, like work, home, school, healthcare, shopping, can determine how much time is spent traveling during any given week. With no room to grow, we need to think of cultivating an ecosystem of choices to give more flexibility to Angelenos."

- One underlying goal is clear across the board: To use emerging technology to make our transportation system so robust and responsive, Angelenos won’t need privately owned, single-occupancy cars—and we won’t need to devote 14 percent of all land in Los Angeles County to parking them. Even that one small element of the plan—the slightest reduction in the need, and therefore the number and location of parking spaces—could dramatically change the city, much to the delight of urban planners. --- "This plan sets a visionary path to using the latest technology, data, and approaches to solve LA's urban mobility challenges, particularly with parking," says Juan Matute, associate director for research and administration for UCLA's Institute of Transportation Studies.

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The UK’s Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) announced the beginning of a trial of a self-driving shuttle service in the London borough of Greenwich. As reported by the BBC, around 100 locals will be able to take rides in “Harry” — a prototype driverless pod — in the area situated near London’s O2 arena.

- The vehicle will ferry participants up and down a preset route over the next three weeks. Harry can travel at speeds of up to 10 mph, is capable of seating four, and although it uses cameras and LIDAR to find its way, a trained technician will be on board at all times to monitor its progress. It’s a limited trial for sure, but the UK government is hoping these sorts of autonomous shuttles will play a big part in the country’s public transport, especially in areas not served by bus, train, or tram routes.

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A Dim Future for New York Subways

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Transit system ridership will soon be severely curtailed by self-driving taxis. In response, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority needs to update its existing infrastructure rather than expand it.

- Our research group at Columbia University projects that if autonomous vehicles continue to improve at their current rate, but M.T.A. technology remains rooted in the 20th century, the system will be forced to close altogether within two decades. This is mostly because cab fares will drop in price, closing in on the cost of a subway or bus ride for shorter trips. Declining ridership, coupled with tens of billions of dollars in debt, is probably not going to be sustainable. Cheap, efficient train transit is possible if the latest signaling and on-train self-conducting technologies are put in place. Technology can both reduce fares and reduce journey times for passengers.

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The only thing holding back NYC's subways is their own agencies incompetence. Granted, the authors acknowledge this, but God the autonomous vehicle narrative is so annoying.

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When cars don’t have drivers anymore, they’ll look like this outlandish concept

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In fact, the NEVS InMotion concept doesn’t look like a car at all. Taking the idea of autonomous driving to its logical extreme, the InMotion concept is basically a room on wheels that lets passengers chill out while it drives itself around. Unveiled at CES Asia in Shanghai, it will almost certainly never see production. In addition to being fairly impractical, the company behind the InMotion is unstable.

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Just not enough street capacity for the subway system in NY to close down. Now if flying cars become a thing, maybe that's a different story..
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GM is finally releasing their competitor to Tesla Autopilot - they call theirs 'Super Cruise.' I sort of like their name better, since it leaves less room for confusion.
However, their system is probably overly dependent on maps, which can be updated over-the-air. The software to analyze and drive using these maps cannot be upgraded OTA, per dealership rules and such. I'm not in the market for one of these, but it is cool to see other automakers releasing practical hands-free / partial-autonomy systems too. At the very least, it will get the public better prepared for the day when cars become fully autonomous.
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Just not enough street capacity for the subway system in NY to close down. Now if flying cars become a thing, maybe that's a different story..
I had to admit that mass transit projects can draw more attention because of their size and complexity.
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Autonomous bus makes inaugural Atlanta run—without catastrophe

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- A boxy red bus-like vehicle traversed a mile-long stretch of North Avenue on Thursday, from Ponce City Market to Midtown, to help usher in a new era of transportation in Atlanta. While the route was unremarkable, the driver—or lack thereof—made the trip unique. The test of self-driving Transdev EZ10 marked the first of what promises to be many trips by autonomous vehicles on the streets of Atlanta. ABC reports the vehicle made multiple trips along the route, ferrying media members (and Mayor Kasim Reed) eager to see the technology at work. Noted the news station: “The test on North Avenue in the city's bustling Midtown area meant that Atlanta has become one of the largest urban areas to test autonomous vehicles, joining Sao Paulo and Shanghai.” While the vehicles are capable of driving themselves, drivers were on hand, but they “made minimal human interventions” during the trips. The demonstration doubled as an opportunity to test the “smart” technology—comprising a range of sensors and relay devices—added to the road in the last year.

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