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In 2009, I was coming home from a sales meeting in Minneapolis-St.Paul with my co-workers from Sioux Falls Ford. We sustained a rear impact in a road construction zone on I-35; the truck that hit us was traveling too fast and didn?t see us stopped in traffic. The blunt force caused us to side swipe the vehicle ahead of us as we plummeted towards the ditch.
Thankfully, nobody was seriously hurt but the experience has always stuck with me. I still get nervous when cars come upon me quickly.
Challenges & Promises
With autonomous vehicles on the horizon, there is a not only a promise, but a strong possibility accidents of this nature – of any nature – will cease. Yet, there remains an elephant in the room. My emotions on autonomous driving are mixed but I am optimistic, believing the people working on such technology have their hearts in the right place. So I will be enthusiastic and favorable in describing this elephant as small, but an elephant in the room is still an elephant in the room. AutoSens has officially kicked off here in Detroit, Michigan, an insightful event dedicated to autonomous driving and vehicle perception technology. The occasion will serve as a meeting point for engineers, connecting them to one another in a setting that showcases the latest academic research, industrial R&D, and OEM insights. AutoSens is taking place at the M1 Concourse, an ideal location with its 1.5-mile racetra...