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CONNECTED VEHICLES: Weather Updates For AVs Could Use Coms Cocktail

Weather updates are going to be crucial to allow autonomous vehicles to adjust to changing road conditions in the same way that a human driver should adjust their speed during heavy rainfall or snowfall.

This kind of information should also be able to inform connected and semi-autonomous vehicles that still have a driver to control them. However, the communications networks required to relay this data are often lacking – even 4G coverage is still quite patchy. This brings forth the claim that 5G connectivity will be worse. But will it?

Published on 25th March 2019 by TU Automotive magazine. Author: Graham Jarvis. 

 

Fleet Telematics Has Vital Role in Move to EVs

Increasingly, organizations are turning to electric vehicles (EVs) while setting goals to reduce emissions and improve operational fleet efficiency.

However, there are implications on changing the powertrain of a vehicle and how it’s managed in fleet operations. Noah Gates, senior product owner at Omnitracs, says he’s noticed that one of the biggest trends at the moment is the use of telematics data to drive autopilot systems in EVs. “Telematics data is also providing information about those systems to Tesla, which is being used to refine the technology,” he adds. From Tesla’s perspective, the aim is to improve the self-driving capabilities of its vehicles while making the data readily available for legal purposes...

Find out more about the role of telematics in the move to electric vehicles. 

Published by TU Automotive magazine on 31st January 2019. Author: Graham A. Jarvis

Broad Business Models Most Likely to Triumph in Mobility

How to bet on the mobility winners of the future, explored by Graham Jarvis.

The automotive start-up scene, symbolised by Silicon Valley, is booming. Yet there is much talk about how you can spot the unicorn that will disrupt the mobility, connected and autonomous vehicle markets beyond recognition.

“Historically, what Silicon Valley has done well is to financially encourage a range of technical and commercial approaches to create better solutions given the advances in enabling technology and evolving market conditions”, explains Damien Scott, chief commercial officer at Renovo.auto.

Read the complete article to learn why... 

Published by TU Auto on 16th June 2018. 

Risks May Differ But Don’t Go Away for Driverless Insurance

Challenges for insurers devising policy plans for ADAS and autonomous explored by Graham Jarvis.

By reputation the insurance industry is often seen as a slow-moving beast but research suggests that their pace is changing. It seems that insurers are keenly embracing new technologies, such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and they are taking steps to prepare themselves for an autonomous vehicle future. Nevertheless, there is still the feeling that the rapid advances in autonomous vehicle technologies have taken some industries by surprise, including insurers, because there will be a need to create some radically different parameters from the very well established insurance model.

Legislators around the world are having to address the changes the rapid advances in autonomous vehicle technologies are creating. This includes finding a legislative way to answer the liability question of who’s responsible when an accident occurs when the traditional human driver is no longer in control of the car.

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Published in June 2017 by TU Automotive magazine. Author: Graham Jarvis. 

5G Could Replay VHS v Betamax Battle with Connected Cars

Choosing the IoT tech to create smarter cars and cities to improve mobility, explored by Graham Jarvis.

Frost and Sullivan has found that “autonomous cars [alone] will account for a $84Bn (£67Bn) market by 2030”. The claim was recently made in one of the company’s press releases by its mobility partner Franck Leveque. Of this market value the company says half will emanate from software related activities as a result of the convergence of the mobility sector with other industries. With the digital transformation of the automotive industry under way the firm expects to see the growth of mobility-as-a-service (MaaS), created by ride-hailing apps and car-pooling apps. Together these mobile applications already have a combined total of 110M users.

With the global market for digital mobility services forecast to grow to $2Trn by 2025, Frost and Sullivan suggests there is much continued private sector interest in digital mobility services and, as result of this trend, the firm says there is a readiness to combine different modes of transport to the extent that the “lines between private and public transport are becoming blurred in favour of a multi-modal integrated transportation systems”.

So how does this battle play itself out?  Find out more here.... #YearInReview

 

Published on 16th June 2017 by TU Automotive magazine. Author: Graham Jarvis. 

Driverless Tech Can’t Rely Just on Connectivity

How the autonomous vehicle needs to drive beyond the reach of IoT, Graham Jarvis discovers.

There is an argument that, to a debatable extent, autonomous vehicles require connectivity. Dr Graeme Smith, CEO of Oxbotica, thinks that self-driving cars must have the capability to operate when there is no connectivity at all.

“The design of our vehicles doesn’t require connectivity or GPS because we design the systems to be self-sufficient, so that they are robust and reliable under all conditions,” he says. The problem with having autonomous cars that rely upon connectivity alone falls down to the fact that if it fails there is no way of recovering from it – such as when a self-driving vehicle is within a weak or dead mobile signal area. “So we build everything we need to run autonomously into the vehicle itself, to make sure that it’s self-sufficient,” he adds before explaining that “the question is not whether the vehicle should be connected but what data they would have if they were connected”.

Discover more, read the complete article. #YearInReview

Published by TU Automotive on 26th May 2017. Author: Graham Jarvis.

Insurers Must Keep the Connected Car Strategy Simple

The challenge of device fragmentation in the connected car, explored by Graham Jarvis [Ins.Jarvis.05.12.2016]

According to Guillaume Lehallier, product design and ecosystem manager at insurance company AXA, the key challenge facing semi-autonomous and autonomous cars falls down the insurance liability question. When an accident occurs in these driving modes, who is liable?

Find out the answer here in the complete article. #YearInReview

Published by TU Automotive on 12th May 2017. Author: Graham Jarvis. 

Connected Car Insurance Europe 2017 Day 1 Blog

Day 1 of Connected Car Insurance Europe 2017 discussed topics such as shared mobility, the future of the insurance industry in what will be an increasingly autonomous vehicle world, the importance of using telematics data to improve the customer experience and to enable the development of new connected insurance products and services. In my article I summarise the day's presentations.

Published by TU Automotive on 20th April 2017. Author: Graham Jarvis. #YearInReview

 

AR as a Commercial Reality for Connected Cars

Augmented Reality's potential in the future connected car explored by Graham Jarvis.

Through the movies most people will have either or seen heard about fighter pilots using heads-up displays in their cockpits to allow them to focus on whatever is around them and in order to fire a missile at an enemy on the ground or in the air. Car manufacturers are now looking at augmented reality (AR) technology as way to achieve this in connected vehicles, arguing that it will allow drivers to focus on the road ahead rather than on what their traditional dashboard tells them. The latter can, after all, be distracting because it requires drivers to momentarily take their eye of the road.

Technology companies and car manufacturers are, therefore, keen to explore how augmented reality can be used to provide drivers with information that goes beyond indicating how many miles per hour a car is travelling, the temperature of the engine and how much fuel is left. A spokesperson from Hyundai Motor Company, for example, expects AR technologies to be applied to a windscreen or to a heads-up display to provide information to the driver. This includes information about traffic conditions, real-time accident alerts, restaurants and tourist attracts within the proximity of the vehicle. With this kind of information drivers will be able to reach their destinations more easily.

Find out more, read the complete article. 

Published by TU Automotive on 7th April 2017. Author: Graham Jarvis.  #YearInReview

Insuring Robots and Humans Increases Risk

Autonomous liability creates a dual coverage, Graham Jarvis discovers.

Traditional motor insurance makes the driver of the vehicle potentially liable for any damage or injury caused by an accident, whether that involves the policyholder or a third party.

With autonomous vehicles it opens up many liability questions – particularly in the case when the car has complete control over itself. Find out the answers here...

Published on 24th February 2017. Client: TU Automotive. Author: Graham Jarvis. #YearInReview