This opinion piece by NY Times economics writer, Peter Coy, about New York City's congestion pricing plan, includes Devansh Jalota, Ph.D. candidate in Marco Pavone's Autonomous System's Lab's research on redistributing the revenue raised by congestion pricing by refunding funds to reduce traffic congestion without worsening economic equity.
CARS Director, Marco Pavone was part of this list of influential people in the mobility field which includes people in government, and business ranging from powerful statesmen to grassroots social media organizers.
Researchers at Stanford University have found that current charging habits for electric vehicles (EVs) will be unsustainable for the electric grid if adaptations aren’t made before net-zero goals for EVs are met
Stanford researchers estimate the impact of rising EV ownership in the western U.S. could boost power demand as much as 25% by 2035, the year when California has banned the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles.The study says more EV charging should be done during midday hours—ideally at work or public stations—when wind and solar power supplies are at their peak, sometimes producing more energy than the grid can handle.
By 2035, California will ban sales of new gasoline powered cars and light trucks. Yi Cui, professor, materials science and engineering and director, Precourt Institute for Energy predicts the broad adoption of EVs will force a revolution in battery design. The need for fast charging, he says, “will definitely provide opportunities for new battery chemistries to emerge.” By using new materials for electrodes or charge-carrying ions, he and others have already come up with promising candidates.
Sony and polyphony Digital, developed the AI driver GT Sophy. “Outracing human drivers so skillfully in a head-to-head competition represents a landmark achievement for AI,” said Chris Gerdes, a professor at Stanford who studies autonomous driving, in an article published alongside the Sony research in the journal Nature.
A team of researchers including researchers from Marco Pavone's Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) propose tackling traffic jams and economic inequality by using AI to tweak congestion pricing on toll road. “Some people can reduce their travel time by paying additional tolls, while others are compensated for taking longer routes," said Devansh Jalota, a doctoral candidate with Stanford University ASL
Among the concepts presented at this year's NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium in September was Marco Pavone's labs' ReachBot robot for crawling through Martian caves using extendable booms to grasp over long distances.
Tesla, along with other nontraditional chipmakers like Amazon, Microsoft and Google, designs their own silicon for AI applications. Chris Gerdes attended Tesla's unveiling for their DI chip and comments on this trend.
Borrowing from autonomous vehicles technology, a team of researchers has built a self-navigating smart cane which in tests, increased walking speed for visually impaired volunteers by 18 percent.
