Contact Driverless Transportation

Enquiries fall into a few categories, and saying which one applies makes a reply faster. Send enquiries to [email protected].

Consulting, research and speaking

For advisory work, research collaboration or a conference session, the useful information up front is the organisation, the audience or decision the work supports, and the timeline. The scope of this work is described on the services page.

Corrections

Corrections are welcome and are acted on. The archive covers 2013 to 2018 and holds a great deal of forward-looking material that time has since settled, so factual errors of record — a misattributed quote, a wrong date, a company name that changed — are worth reporting. Point to the specific page and state what is wrong.

Additions to the datasets

The deployment tracker and the report library are both maintained rather than fixed. For the tracker, the requirement is a public source establishing that a service carries ordinary passengers with nobody from the operator in the vehicle. For the library, the requirement is that the material is free to read and substantive.

Editorial corrections policy

The archive is a historical record and is treated as one. Factual errors are corrected and the correction stands on the page. What is not changed is a forecast that turned out wrong, an assessment that has since been overtaken, or a company description that was accurate when written — those are the record, and quietly editing them would destroy the thing that makes a decade-old archive worth keeping.

That distinction occasionally produces complaints from companies whose earlier positions read poorly in hindsight. The response is consistent: a demonstrable factual error will be fixed, and an accurate account of what was said in 2016 will not be.

Response times and what helps

Enquiries are answered in the order they arrive, and specificity moves things along considerably. For a correction, the page URL and the precise error. For a tracker addition, the operator and a public source. For advisory work, the organisation and the decision the work supports. A message that asks whether it is possible to discuss automated driving generally will get a slower and less useful answer than one that names the problem.

Directory listings

The organisation directory indexes associations, government bodies, universities, technology companies and vehicle makers working on automated and connected transport. Suggestions for organisations that belong there are welcome, with a note on what they actually do — the directory is curated rather than open.