Tag: Driving

Ilooked at the message on my phone and thought, “Oof. That’s embarrassing.” The email from my colleague, sent an hour earlier, asked, “Are we still meeting?” I had totally forgotten about this meeting. Adrenaline rushed. Self-recrimination played. Groveling apologies...

A very simple answer Here is a hypothetical question: what are other nations more afraid of — The US Military or The US Dollar? Answer: The US Dollar. This makes perfect sense. US Military action is almost always conducted in the public eye, and violence generally restri...

It feels a little weird publishing a post about Christmas in March but I really want these blogs to be in chronological order, for our family to look back on if nothing else, so I’m going to take you back in time a couple of months and share our Christmas in Athens with you. One of the ...

After my first night in Bangkok, I decided I was not in the mood for ‘doing a city’, and I needed to get out of town — fast. So, I decided to rent a car and head to the country. The Plan The idea was to drive out of Bangkok up to the “Death Railway”, stay there fo...

As a migrant when you arrive in Melbourne, one of the first things you should do is to get a Victorian driving license. If your not living in CBD, a vehicle is a must have for you to survive. And with latest regulations (as at 2019-Dec), all overseas students/migrants need to get a Victorian driving...

In 2013, a UK school teacher was sacked for failing to complete a risk assessment before pruning a bush at her school. If you think that’s ridiculous, then you would also be appalled to learn that the Welsh Ambulance Service refused to take this man’s 95-year-old Aunt...

Mercedes-Benz recently suffered a data breach that exposed internal source code and other proprietary information after an employee authentication token was accidentally left in a public GitHub repository. The breach was discovered in 2024 by researchers at cybersecurity firm RedHunt Labs during ...

Tesla’s Self-Driving Milestones Tesla’s approach has been notably different from that of other companies. Unlike Waymo, which has clocked over 20 million miles on public roads, Tesla’s technology is being refined with an impressive cumulative total of 3 billion Autopilot miles a...

Despite setbacks by companies that have tried to rush development, self-driving vehicle technology continues to move forward, raising questions about how we should manage and regulate autonomous cars. In several cities in California, Arizona or Texas, the sight of vehicles moving through traffic ...

Tesla is a company that has always been at the forefront of innovation, and its use of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics in its self-driving cars is no exception. By leveraging these powerful technologies, Tesla is able to create a safer, more efficient, and more convenient driving...

In recent years, more and more companies and research institutions have made their autonomous driving datasets open to the public. However, the best datasets are not always easy to find, and scouring the internet for them takes time. To help, we at SiaSearch have put together a list of ...

Transformer is a neural network model based on the attention mechanism, which was proposed by Google in 2017. Different from traditional RNN and CNN, Transformer mines the connection and correlation of different elements in the sequence through the attention mechanism, so that it can adapt to i...

1. Autopilot: Starting the Journey Imagine your car having its own set of eyes and ears — that’s Tesla’s Autopilot! It uses cameras, radar, and other cool sensors to know what’s happening around the car. All these sensors gather lots of information, and this information be...

Radar What is Radar? Radar stands for Radio Detection and Ranging. This type of sensor uses radio waves to determine the distance, angle, or velocity of objects. It is the type of sensor police officers use to catch speeding cars! In our case, we will be using radars to estimate the velocities...

Localization is simply the ability of a robot to identify its position (more correctly pose — three dimensions each, for position and orientation) in a given world. What makes this problem non-trivial is the fact that there are no physical sensors to directly measure and report a rob...

MPC is a process to minimize costs while satisfying a set of constraints. For example, we want to adjust the steering and the speed every 100 ms such that the cost function, defined as the difference between the target trajectory point (the yellow dot) and ours (the green dot), is minimized und...

Introduction Self-driving technology is a complex field that relies on algorithms and filters to interpret sensor data, make decisions, and control the vehicle. In this section, we will explore the different types of algorithms and filters used in self-driving technology, explaining them in layma...

A system and method for controlling an autonomous vehicle to affect a view seen by an occupant of the autonomous vehicle is described. In one embodiment, a method for controlling an autonomous vehicle to affect a view seen by an occupant of the autonomous vehicle includes determining a navigation ro...

This article is the first in a series where we will learn to make an autonomous, self-driving robot with no prior programming experience using a visual programming language called XOD. You can buy the robot on Amazon and have everything required to make your own robot for about $35. We will ...

Drowsy driving, also known as tired or fatigued driving, is the operation of a motor vehicle while being cognitively impaired by a lack of sleep. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety suggests that drivers who miss between one to two hours of the recommended seven hours of sleep in a 2...

Beginning November 18, 2024, having a “prohibited” status in FMCSA’s Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse due to a drug and alcohol program violation will result in losing or being denied a commercial driver’s license (CDL) or commercial learner’s permit (CLP). A...

As the quote goes, “If you bought it, a truck brought it.” Trucks are a vital part of business infrastructure, and as a business leader overseeing logistics, making freight as efficient as possible is a core part of your success. This week’s article is written by the wonderful&n...

Road accident is a serious problem throughout the world in terms of social, health and economic development. Authorities in virtually all countries of the world are concerned about the growth in the number of people killed and seriously injured on their roads. According to Anthony Albanese (2010), r...

Introduction: The pharmaceutical industry is continuously evolving, driven by advancements in technology, research, and manufacturing processes. Innovations in medicine processing play a pivotal role in enhancing efficiency, quality, and safety in pharmaceutical manufacturing. From novel drug deliv...

If we use the normal model for the static friction force, then the following would be true. Of course the static friction force is a force of constraint — it has whatever value is needed to prevent the two surfaces from sliding with respect to each other. However, there is a maximum limit t...