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Jun. 05, 2014 / Gordon Price

Assisted Trucking: If it works for bicycles …

So here we go: autonomous-vehicle technology is starting to roll out – in this case for peloton trucking.   . From Popular…
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Jun. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

How many cars would we need if they were automated?

Here’s an estimate, from Driverless Cars: Optional by 2024, Mandatory by 2044 “When we modeled that for Ann Arbor, Mich.,…
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May. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

“Will a World of Driverless Cars Be Heaven or Hell?”

Robin Chase asks the question in this Atlantic Cities piece, further to the post below.  In that piece on the…
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May. 06, 2014 / Gordon Price

What happens when a Google car sees a cyclist?

This is what happens: . . To see video, click here for “The First Look at How Google’s Self-Driving Car…
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Mar. 26, 2014 / Gordon Price

The Driving Force behind Autonomous Vehicles

While developers like Google believe autonomous vehicles (AV) – or self-driving cars – will be market-ready by 2018, others are…
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Jan. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

Annals of Motordom – 71: Tolling the Present … Predicting the Future … Measuring the Moment

An occasional update on items from Motordom – the world of auto dominance ______________________________________________________________   TAKING A TALLY OF TOLLING…
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Jun. 12, 2013 / Gordon Price

Netherlands Diary 9: Science Fiction on the Quays of Rotterdam

Since 1956, with the invention of the shipping container – one of the transformative technologies of the 20th century – the…
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Sep. 13, 2012 / Gordon Price

Camels and Universal Tolls

It won’t be just on the Port Mann Bridge. Frank Luba in The Province captured my sentiments: Gord Price, director…
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Aug. 23, 2012 / Gordon Price

The Auto-auto: Jack Hope on the self-driven car

Jack Hope’s comments on the post below about self-driving cars deserve a higher profile.  Like here: The reality is automated automobiles…

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