PAVEcast: A conversation about autonomous vehicles

How to Test, Verify, and Validate AV Technology with Applied Intuition

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The evolution of automated vehicle technology continues to grow by leaps and bounds. AV technology is diverse, complex, and constantly changing but fo...

PAVEcast: "New Public Opinion Survey: Are People Ready for AVs?"

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

PAVE members believe that public trust is necessary for AVs to reach their potential.  But what does the public currently think about AVs?   PAVE t...

PAVEcast: "How Can Advanced Driver Assistance Features Improve Pedestrian Safety?"

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

October is #PedestrianSafetyMonth, so it is a great time to look at how AV technology can make the roads safer for everyone, both in and out of the ve...

PAVEcast: “How Aurora and Pittsburgh Technical College are Creating Jobs of the Future"

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Autonomous Vehicles require new technologies, and those new systems require workers with new skills and expertise. Across the country, colleges and un...

PAVEcast: "Building a Smart City: The Vision, Challenges, and Partnerships That Make it Happen"

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Peachtree Corners, Georgia, is one of the United States’ first 5G smart cities powered by real-world connected infrastructure, and its Curiosity Lab...

AVs in China: A Conversation with DeepRoute.ai CEO Maxwell Zhou

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Autonomous vehicle technology is growing around the world. In China, many innovative companies are developing AV technology to address the growing dem...

PAVEcast: "Can Autonomy Help to Ease Supply Chain Bottlenecks?"

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In a global economy, goods travel across borders from manufacturer to market faster than ever before. While intermodal transportation has been key to ...

IIHS Survey Results: Lessons Learned

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many vehicles today have partially automated features, which can increase vehicle safety and provide conveniences for drivers. These systems are ofte...

PAVEcast: "Autonomous Trucks and Regulation: The Road Ahead"

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In many states, the AV industry and elected officials are working together to make the In many states, the AV industry and elected officials are worki...

PAVEcast: "Digital Infrastructure in Highly Automated Driving"

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Traditionally, the word “infrastructure” conjures images of highways, bridges, and railroad tracks. Although it seems less visible than sidewalks ...

PAVEcast: "New Survey Data: Canadians and Autonomous Vehicles"

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How much does the public know about autonomous vehicles? Does the public trust AV technology?PAVE teamed with J.D. Power and MIT’s Advanced Vehicle...

PAVEcast: “AVs Around the World: Switzerland”

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Automated vehicles are a global phenomenon, with global impacts and global challenges. Around the world, countries are contemplating how to introduce ...

PAVEcast: "AVs and Public Good: Serving Ohio's Rural Communities"

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

During May, PAVE’s panels are focused on how autonomous vehicle technology can serve the public good. While AV deployments in urban environments get...

PAVEcast: "AVs and Public Good: Nuro and the City of Houston"

13 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

During the month of May, PAVE’s panels are focused on places where AVs are in action, being tested and deployed to serve the public good.Nuro is bui...

PAVEcast:“AVs and Public Good: Trenton MOVES ”

06 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Autonomous vehicle technologies offer incredible potential: they could make our highways safer, they could offer new mobility options for people who c...

PAVEcast: "What Could AVs Mean for Black Americans?”

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Autonomous vehicles hold the promise of the greatest transformation of American transportation since the dawn of the auto age. One test of that promis...

PAVEcast: "What Could AVs Mean for New Career Pathways?"

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Autonomous vehicles may bring about many changes in society, but one question we hear frequently is what this technology may mean for the job market.S...

PAVEcast: "What Could AVs Mean for Ridesharing?”

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft have taken the mobility world by storm since 2010, greatly expanding traditional taxi services that have been o...

PAVEcast: “What Could AVs Mean for State DOTs?"

08 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As autonomous vehicle technology becomes an increasingly visible piece of the transportation future, states are actively preparing for an autonomous f...

MCity on AV testing innovation

06 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

PAVE and the University of Michigan’s Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) share a common goal of providing education on automat...

PAVEcast: “AV Fact vs. Fiction"

01 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do you have a question about autonomous vehicles you want answered? Maybe you’ve seen examples of self-driving cars on tv and want to know how reali...

PAVEcast: “Where, Not When: Why Domains Matter"

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most common questions we hear about autonomous vehicles is “when will AVs be here?” … and the honest answer is: “well, it depends o...

Reimagining Transit: Lessons from the RAPID Autonomous Service in Arlington, Texas

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Arlington RAPID, one of the first programs in the United States to integrate on-demand, autonomous vehicles (AVs) into an existing public transportati...

PAVEcast: "AI For AVs"

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science focused on enabling robots and computers to perform tasks usually done by humans. This is a co...

PAVEcast: “Driverless Car, Horseless Carriage: Seeing AVs Beyond the Car”

11 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout history, humans have seen new technologies through the lens of what came before – such as when the first cars were called “horseless ca...

PAVEcast: "What Does Autonomy Really Mean?”

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most pressing highway safety issues we face today is helping drivers to understand the difference between autonomous driving – where the ...

PAVEcast: “AVs and the City of Tomorrow: Building Consensus"

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

New technologies – from ride hailing to micromobility to sidewalk robots – could increase flexibility and convenience for city residents, but they...

PAVEcast: "AVs and the City of Tomorrow: Automating Public Transit"

18 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many people think of AVs as mid-century futurist visions of self-driving cars, but some of the most interesting work in the driving automation space i...

PAVEcast: "AVs and the City of Tomorrow: The City as a System"

11 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cars have greatly shaped American cities, sometimes in ways that have not optimized livability for city residents. As driving automation technology al...

PAVEcast: “The Road Ahead with PAVE Chair and Executive Officers" Part 2

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Following up on our conversation of “The Road Ahead with PAVE Chair and Executive Officers", PAVE Executive Director Tara Andringa sat down wit...

Measure, Don’t Guess: Steven Lambright of Aeye on Intelligent Lidar

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

PAVE was not at CES in person this year, but we did take the opportunity to check in at Aeye’s virtual booth for a conversation with the lidar compa...

PAVEcast: "All AVs Are Local: Iowa’s Automated Rural Shuttle"

04 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Most AV research focuses on urban and suburban areas, where the technology could improve congestion or other urban mobility challenges. But how might ...

Safety In The Loop: David Harkey, President of IIHS, on Level 2 Safety Principles

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Insurance Institutes of Highway Safety is one of the premiere auto safety organizations in America, drawing on massive amounts of insurance indust...

PAVEcast: “Behind The Bylines: Covering Automated Vehicles In 2022”

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Journalists play a key role in forming the public’s views of automated vehicles, serving as the filter for much of what reaches through. Covering th...

PAVEcast: “The Road Ahead with PAVE Chair and Executive Officers"

21 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

PAVE’s Board of Directors is made up of broad representatives across the AV ecosystem, including corporations, start-ups, and nonprofit organization...

PAVEcast: "The Road Ahead: U.S. DOT’s AV Policy and Priorities In 2022" with Lynda Tran

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are excited to launch our first-ever PAVEcast episode with an exclusive conversation with Lynda Tran from the U.S. Department of Transportation. D...

SafeAI's CEO Bibhrajit Halder sits down with PAVE!

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

PAVE member, SafeAI, is bringing driving automation to some of the hardest-working vehicles on earth. We sat down with founder Bibhrajit Halder to lea...

Introducing: The PAVEcast

29 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas