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Self drive technology is affordable while improving safety, convenience, and energy efficiency. http://bit.ly/DIY-Robot-Kits Folsom, PhD)
Self-driving or autonomous vehicles are right around the corner. We need this technology to provide transportation for the mobility-impaired such as people who are too young or too old, or people without a vehicle. We can create a system to ensure the automated delivery of goods.We can make transportation safer, and more efficient through improved urban design and while cutting pollution to zero. The ramifications of autonomy go far beyond an improved car. Applying current technology to urban mobility can improve safety, convenience, and energy efficiency. Here is a vision of what is possible:
If traffic accidents become rare, lightweight robot vehicles can freely mix with heavier vehicles. The autonomous vehicles weighing less than the riders can achieve 1000 MPG equivalent and be powered by renewable energy. When most urban trips are made in self-driving taxis, the distinction between public and private transportation becomes blurred. With autonomy, vehicles can become modular, changing size for the baggage and passengers carried. (“Energy and Autonomous Urban Land Vehicles” - IEEE Technology and Society Magazine by T.
12/19/2023
The video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1zu3A_lDg won the IEEE Vehicle Technology Society's story telling competition. This is the long-term vision of our work.
Looking Back A vision of sustainable urban transportation for mid century
03/06/2020
Workshop on Elcano Project: https://site.ieee.org/sustech/conference/workshops/
01/09/2019
We were on TV this evening:
Self-driving tricycle could start a transportation transformation - KING 5 Evening UW students hope to change the world with three wheels
11/29/2018
Story on Geek Wire:
Forget autonomous cars. How about an electric, self-driving tricycle for a cheaper, safer alternative? If you’re entertaining futuristic visions of cruising down the highway in your own self-driving, electric car, Tyler Folsom wants to expand that notion. Picture yourself instead behind the handlebars…
09/07/2018
Prof. Folsom on KBOO Portland Bike Show:
The Bike Show Whether you haven't pushed a pedal since you were a kid or logged thousands of miles in the past year, we present something for every listener.
09/07/2018
http://www.uwb.edu/news/september-2018/autonomous-trike
UW Bothell advances self-driving trike - September 2018 - News - UW Bothell The self-driving tricycle project at the University of Washington Bothell is rolling forward, giving students the opportunity to develop engineering and computing skills in the field of autonomous vehicles.
08/03/2018
Good article on the project:
Pedal-less Power Autonomous Vehicles - 425 Business While driverless cars are all the rage, one UW Bothell professor is focusing his attention on autonomous vehicles with fewer wheels.
Tyler Folsom will be on Seattle's KIRO radio Thursday July 19, between 9:30 and 10:30.
07/06/2018
PBS story:
Self-Driving Bikes: Seattle’s Next Transit Revolution? Professor Tyler Folsom and his students at University of Washington Bothell are spearheading a grassroots effort to develop lighter, more affordable, personal rapid transit: self-driving bikes.
KCTS-9 (PBS) shot a story on 6/8/18. Should be broadcast in early September.
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