Stanford in the News
Shared control where the human is in the loop and must take control in an emergency is a challenge for automotive technologists. Two Stanford groups researched different aspects of the hand-off challenge.
CARS Director Chris Gerdes, seen here next to X1, highlights some of the automotive research at Stanford which some experts say constitutes the Big 3 of autonomy along with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan. Researchers partner with companies to make driver-less...
Stanford celebrated the opening of the Stanford Generating Station in Kern County, CA in December which will provide more than 50 percent of electricity for the campus. The 67-megawatt plant contains about 19.9 million solar cells and covers approximately 200 acres.
Joshua Browder ’19, a Stanford CS student coded a chatbot named DoNotPay, which he calls the world’s first robot lawyer. DoNoPay offers free legal aid by asking questions and then providing the relevant documents for users to mail. Already, DoNotPay has overturned 160,000 parking tickets and...
JR Hildebrand, Verizon IndyCar Series driver, is also an adjunct lecturer with Stanford’s vehicle dynamics lab, working with students doing their on-track work at Thunderhill Raceway Park. Hildebrand helps them decipher and communicate what the car is doing. According to JR, “In some ways, (these...
