Talk To Me, KITT
As a safety-led autonomous urban trial company with a focus on the challenging ‘zone 1’ restrictive metropolitan environments around the world, we at StreetDrone are uniquely focused on the interaction between a moving vehicle and its environment. In truth, a cityscape presents far more potential for hazard and it is precisely that challenge that we […]
Safety Shouldn’t Happen By Accident
As the trialling of autonomous vehicles becomes an ever more common sight on the public byways and highways, the role performed by a test driver is becoming the focus for a much greater level of scrutiny for us at StreetDrone as well as among the wider autonomous development community. As we are focused on making […]
An open letter – Self-drive is stalling
In today’s Telegraph, the UK self-driving industry combined to send an open letter to the UK government, with StreetDrone Founder Mark Preston as a signatory:
In Need of a Pick Me Up?
StreetDrone’s home city, Oxford, is rapidly becoming a leading cluster of next-gen mobility companies, as evidenced by Waymo’s recent acquisition of autonomy AI experts, Latent Logic, and this year’s first unicorn birth following the investment made by UPS and Hyundai into Arrival. However, while we at StreetDrone and our Oxford neighbours are busy developing next-gen […]
Introducing the StreetDrone 10 Safety Commandments
As urban autonomy experts, safety is front and centre when we deploy metropolitan trials – read all about the StreetDrone Ten Safety Commandments featured in the MOVE2020 edition of Future Vehicle below: Alternatively, read the article via interactive page turner here (pages 48-50) For more information or to arrange an appointment, please contact info@streetdrone.com
Why GM’s investment in autonomous public transport is a game-changer
Mike Potts, StreetDrone’s CEO, says that making the economics of autonomous shuttles work will be a challenge even as GM announces a huge commitment to build a new form of public transportation vehicles. We’re really clear at StreetDrone that the first commercially viable public-serving autonomous services will be shared urban transport systems – almost certainly […]
Deploying Open Source Software on the streets of London.
As some of our more loyal readers will know, we were heavily involved in rolling out Europes first open source self-driving vehicle as part of the Smart Mobility Living Lab project in London late last year. The SMLL team have now brought out a video with interview and footage of the trial: We’ve punched massively […]
A New Approach to Autonomy
The autonomy promise was overstated — and the approach too universal. Get ready for a new taxonomy, says StreetDrone’s CEO, Mike Potts
Plasan introduces the StreetDrone Open Autonomy Platform to Israel
StreetDrone’s software and hardware solutions are now available in Israel through an exclusive partnership with Plasan. Plasan’s local distribution and support will provide deployments of StreetDrone’s autonomous vehicles and testing eco-system to Israel’s mobility hubs, cities, universities and autonomous vehicle testing facilities. StreetDrone offers a unique range of autonomous-ready vehicles and open source software systems […]
Parkopedia complete successful self-driving demo using StreetDrone Twizy at Low Carbon Vehicle Show.
4 September 2019, at the Low Carbon Vehicle show hosted at Millbrook Proving Ground, Parkopedia successfully demonstrated their latest developments in autonomous parking using their StreetDrone Twizy vehicle. As part of the government-backed ‘Autonomous Valet Parking’ project, Parkopedia is leveraging the open source self-driving stack, Autoware, to validate the indoor and outdoor mapping required for […]