Bright Road Articles
Autonomous Anonymous
By Ken Stewart August 8, 2019 What happened to the promise of autonomous vehicles? AV’s have been the tech news darlings for some time with promises of fleets to use and cars to buy soon. It seems however, there is a hedging trend underway. Delays and repositioning...
EV’s have already won
Should the debate about the future market potential of electric vehicles (EVs) be over? Yes. There are now a combination of undeniable and unrelenting forces in place that were not there five years ago. Let’s put an end to the on-going debate. EV’s have already...
To Build the New Age Vehicle Company, you must be a Pentathlete
At the Bloomberg Future of Mobility Summit last week, I argued that it will take five key pieces for any company to succeed as the provider of the new age vehicle service. If we summarize all the hype (there is more than enough) and all the facts (there are some) the...
Wanted: Autonomous Car looking for a home. Will drive for low risk.
I have made my professional career about technology adoption. You know, that wonderful knife-edge transition when consumers go from ‘Are you kidding me?’ to ‘I gotta have it.’ Perhaps the technology itself goes from an over-priced R&D experiment to that impulse...
Summer Car Festival 2048
Cars are cool. One global reminder of the interest people have in cars is the ubiquitous summer car show. I don’t mean the cars and coffee events, although those are great. I mean the cars displayed on the lawns with the little signs stuck in the ground in front of...
0-60 in the time it takes to toss your cookies
There is a strange and wonderful thing going on in the car business. Horsepower and torque are going up and fuel consumption and emissions are going down. The cost of an automotive thrill ride parked in your garage is wonderfully affordable. Today you can buy a 2018...
Industry Events
Auto AI Europe
Auto AI Europe https://www.auto-ai.eu/ September 26 – 27, 2019 | Maritim proArte Hotel, Berlin, Germany The Auto.AI is Europe’s first platform bringing together all stakeholders who play an active role in the deep driving, imaging, computer vision, sensor fusion and...
Los Angeles Auto Show (LAAS) https://laautoshow.com/ November 22 – December 1ST, 2019 | LA Convention Center Los Angeles Auto Show (LA Auto Show®), is one of the most influential and best-attended auto shows globally and spans more than 1,000,000 square feet. Each...
Consumer Electronics Show
Consumer Electronics Show https://www.ces.tech/ CES 2020 January 7-10 | Las Vegas, NV CES is the world's gathering place for all those who thrive on the business of consumer technologies. It has served as the proving ground for innovators and breakthrough technologies...
February 24 and 25th, 2020 | AUTO.AI USA
AUTO.AI USA https://www.auto-ai.com/agenda/ February 24 and 25th, 2020 | Hyatt Regency San Francisco, USA Deep Driving Technologies & Computer Vision for Cognitive Vehicles. The Auto.AI is America’s first platform bringing together all stakeholders who play an...
SAE World Congress Experience
April 9-11 in Detroit WCX™ World Congress Experience is the mobility industry’s most-anticipated annual event for forward-thinking engineers, executives, OEMs, suppliers, decision-makers, disruptors and the entire spectrum of the mobility-engineering field. Experience...
Auto Shanghai
National Exhibition and Convention Center, Shanghai, China The digital car and alternative drive systems are in the focus of Auto Shanghai which takes place from 18 to 25 April 2019. For eight days the world’s largest motor show in the Chinese economic metropolis will...