Autonomous Vehicles Content

Can Autonomous Vehicles Dream of Electric Traffic?

Andy Fell — August 08, 2024 - 2:10pm

An engineering professor at the University of California, Davis, is striving to make autonomous vehicles, or AVs, safer by changing how researchers train them.

According to Professor Junshan Zhang of the ��ɫ��Ƶ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AVs struggle when confronted with unforeseen events, such as a car driving on the wrong side of the road.

Automated Shuttle Comes to ��ɫ��Ƶ West Village

Katherine E Kerlin — April 02, 2019 - 4:26pm

A new visitor is making the rounds at the University of California, Davis’ West Village neighborhood.

Through June 1, San Jose-based Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation’s (SAIC) Innovation Center is demonstrating its automated, all-electric shuttle around a defined loop of the solar-panel-lined West Village community as part of an agreement between the auto company and ��ɫ��Ƶ.

Roadkill Report a Roadmap to Avoiding Wildlife Collisions

Katherine E Kerlin — September 18, 2018 - 3:27pm

Collisions with wildlife continue to cost up to half a billion dollars each year in California, primarily within the central Sierra Nevada and San Francisco Bay Area. But certain highways have especially high numbers of wildlife collisions, according to the annual roadkill report from the ��ɫ��Ƶ Road Ecology Center.