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Autonomous Vehicles

News and information about vehicles which can drive themselves without human supervision or input. Unmanned vehicles are vehicles which are either controlled remotely, or perhaps operate autonomously.

US DOT Secretary Foxx Detroit Auto Cybersecurity Speech Now Online

DETROIT - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx’s speech at the inaugural Billington Auto Cybersecurity conference last Friday at Cobo Center is now posted online for you to watch. Highlights of his speech include: The US DOT will soon (weeks perhaps months) be issuing its own report on auto cybersecurity and the threats posed by the

By |2016-07-25T20:42:16-04:00July 25th, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles, Cyber Defense, Featured, Politics|
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GM Chairman Barra: World Auto Industry Must Collaborate To Develop Cybersecurity For Connected Vehicles

DETROIT - General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra on Friday called on the world’s auto industry to collaborate to develop cybersecurity standards to not only protect the physical security of vehicle owners, but also the personal data they increasingly transmit through the connected vehicle. “Cybersecurity protects physical safety, privacy and data,” Barra said at

By |2016-07-30T10:09:39-04:00July 22nd, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles, Cyber Defense, Featured, Guest Columns, News|
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Report: Connected Vehicles Must Be Designed With Cybersecurity In Mind

SOUTHFIELD  – Connected vehicles must be designed and manufactured with security in mind, warns a report released Thursday that offers ways in which the auto industry can protect itself from hackers. The report, researched over five months by more than 50 auto cybersecurity experts, was released by the Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center based

By |2016-07-21T17:12:46-04:00July 21st, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles, Featured|
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Automakers Can’t Sacrifice Safety In Rush To Autonomous Driving, Warns Transportation Secretary Foxx

DETROIT - Safety, rather than the rush to be first to market, must be fundamental to the development of autonomous vehicle technology, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. The government will move ahead with plans to release new guidelines covering the development of self-driving vehicles later this summer, Foxx said during a speech in

By |2016-07-20T20:59:48-04:00July 20th, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles, Featured|
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Federal Regulators Ask Tesla To Provide Data On Its Autopilot Program

DETROIT - Federal regulators are asking for Tesla to provide data and documents related to its Autopilot program as a prominent magazine with a mixed history with the automaker issues a call for the company to disable Autopilot on all models until further notice. The moves come on the heels of Elon Musk, the founder

By |2016-07-14T20:19:43-04:00July 14th, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles|
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Launches Bug Bounty Program For Vehicle Cybersecurity

AUBURN HILLS - Hackers can get paid a bounty up to $1,500 if they discover potential vehicle cybersecurity vulnerabilities, depending on its impact and severity. That’s the program launched Wednesday by FCA US LLC, the American arm of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. FCA also named the crowdsourced security testing firm Bugcrowd Inc. to manage the program.

By |2016-07-13T18:20:23-04:00July 13th, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles, Cyber Defense, Featured|
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Southfield Art Gallery Owners Involved In Tesla Autopilot Crash In Pennsylvania

SOUTHFIELD - A Southfield art gallery owner told police his 2016 Tesla Model X was in Autopilot mode when it crashed and rolled over on the Pennsylvania Turnpike last week, the Detroit Free Press reported. The crash came just one day after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a report on a fatal crash

By |2016-07-08T10:20:29-04:00July 8th, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles|
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Laptop In Wreckage Of Tesla Autopilot Car: Florida Investigators

CANTON, Ohio - Investigators found a laptop computer in the Tesla Model S sedan involved in a fatal crash in May while running on autopilot, Florida investigators said on Thursday, leaving it unclear whether the driver was distracted at the time. Neither the laptop nor a DVD player also found in the vehicle was running

By |2016-07-08T09:52:57-04:00July 8th, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles|
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Army TARDEC Tests Autonomous Trucks In Convoy Along I-69 In Lapeer County

WARREN - The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center continued to test its autonomous vehicle technology on June 23 on a 40-mile loop of public roads along Interstate 69 in Lapeer County in hopes that someday Army convoys will be able to travel in harm’s way and not threaten the lives of

By |2016-07-01T09:27:27-04:00July 1st, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Mobile MI, News|
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Navy SEAL Killed In Florida Crash Of Tesla Cruising On Semi-Autonomous Autopilot

WILLISTON, Florida - One person died in a May crash in Florida involving a Tesla Model S cruising on its semi-autonomous Autopilot mode, as Tesla has officially confirmed. NHTSA is currently investigating the wreck. It was in a Model S last month, and only now are details of the crash public, thanks to a statement

By |2016-07-01T08:15:17-04:00July 1st, 2016|Autonomous Vehicles, Featured|
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