I’ve seen several very sketchy experiments around lately where people are controlling the steering of cars in unsafe ways. Let me break down a few of these ways, and discuss concerns. This is not safety advice, this is educational background info. If you do not understand what you are doing, don’t do it. Certainly don’t… Continue reading Safer Control of Steering
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Lyft: Virtual Validation: A Scalable Solution to Test & Navigate the Autonomous Road Ahead
By: Robert Morgan, Engineering Director and Mason Lee, Technical Program Manager To build an autonomous vehicle (AV), we need to be able to safely and efficiently modify and test its software and hardware stacks. While on-road testing may seem like an effective way to do this, it’s simply unrealistic. It’s estimated that it would take more… Continue reading Lyft: Virtual Validation: A Scalable Solution to Test & Navigate the Autonomous Road Ahead
Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fully autonomous trucks
Autonomous trucking is poised to improve road safety and offer greater efficiency across the logistics industry. As we configure the Waymo Driver to operate Class 8 trucks and unlock these benefits, we’re pleased to share that Waymo has entered a broad, global, strategic partnership with Daimler Trucks, the global market leader in large commercial vehicles.… Continue reading Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fully autonomous trucks
Migrating from Terraform to Terragrunt
Co-authored with Marius Milea Introduction At Bestmile, we are using Terraform to represent our AWS infrastructure as code. As our infrastructure evolved, our Terraform code became more and more tangled in order to cope with the growth. The maintainability of our Terraform code was becoming an issue and so was its efficiency. Terraform is great, but it… Continue reading Migrating from Terraform to Terragrunt
NEXT-E’s 252 fast and ultra-fast chargers in 6 countries will be available on one platform
Berlin, 5 October 2020 – The members of the NEXT-E charging infrastructure project for electric vehicles and e-mobility digital specialist Hubject have joined forces to make their combined fast and ultra-fast chargers available on one EV-charging application across six bordering countries: Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Romania. 222 multistandard fast chargers (50 kW)… Continue reading NEXT-E’s 252 fast and ultra-fast chargers in 6 countries will be available on one platform
October 1, 2020 Via acquires Fleetonomy to accelerate entry into logistics and delivery The acquisition bolsters Via’s ability to meet rapi…
October 1, 2020 Via acquires Fleetonomy to accelerate entry into logistics and delivery The acquisition bolsters Via’s ability to meet rapidly growing demand for its innovative technology for logistics and last-mile goods delivery October 1, 2020 (TEL AVIV) — Via, the world’s preeminent provider of digital infrastructure for public mobility systems, announces today that it… Continue reading October 1, 2020 Via acquires Fleetonomy to accelerate entry into logistics and delivery The acquisition bolsters Via’s ability to meet rapi…
Hubject and ubitricity are joining forces to foster seamless EV charging all over Europe
Berlin, September 24, 2020 — Hubject and ubitricity are joining forces to foster seamless EV charging all over Europe. Based on this collaboration, ubitricity, and Hubject – both experienced and mature companies being in the market since 2011 (ubitricity) and 2012 (Hubject) – are collaborating to open the 2nd largest charging network in the UK… Continue reading Hubject and ubitricity are joining forces to foster seamless EV charging all over Europe
Lyft: How to Build a Motion Prediction Model for Autonomous Vehicles
An introduction and tutorial for training machine learning motion prediction models using Lyft Level 5’s Prediction Dataset By: Luca Bergamini, Software Engineer; Vladimir Iglovikov, Software Engineer; Filip Hlasek, Engineering Manager; and Peter Ondruska, Head of Level 5 Research Predicting the behavior of traffic agents around an autonomous vehicle (AV) is one of the key unsolved challenges… Continue reading Lyft: How to Build a Motion Prediction Model for Autonomous Vehicles
Uber: The Impact of Third-Party Food Delivery During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting public health measures have severely impacted the restaurant industry. With dine-in operations largely prohibited, many restaurants have turned to take-out and delivery models to continue reaching customers, maintain revenue, and stay in business. To better understand the impact of third-party food delivery platforms on restaurants during this time, Uber… Continue reading Uber: The Impact of Third-Party Food Delivery During COVID-19
Uber: Independent couriers’ reaction to employee reclassification: learnings from Geneva
By Alison Stein, Economist at Uber We’ve written before about the impact of switching from a system where independent contractors can use platforms like Uber to one where they have to be traditional employees. In California, our analysis has shown that such a switch would result in a 76% reduction in work opportunities for drivers, due… Continue reading Uber: Independent couriers’ reaction to employee reclassification: learnings from Geneva