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Driverless Transportation

Topic

Future in the archive

Reports filed on Future between 2014 and 2016, kept at the addresses they were published under.

Reports
75
Period
2014–2016
Sources
6
Topic
Future

Context

The archive holds 75 reports filed under Future, spanning 2014–2016. The earliest is “Automated Vehicles Symposium 2015”; the most recent is “How Do You Buy a Million Cars When You Can’t Make a Dime?”. Original reporting came via Burney Simpson, Barrie Kirk, Jennifer van der Kleut and others.

This period matters for a specific reason: it is when the industry's assumptions were set. Testing permits were first issued, the acquisitions that consolidated the perception layer closed, the regulatory frameworks still in force were drafted, and a great many confident deployment dates were published. Almost all of those dates passed without incident, which makes the contemporaneous record more useful now than it was at the time — it can be read against what actually happened.

Coverage under Future overlaps most often with Driverless, Consumer, Economics and Autonomous, which is a reasonable map of where the topic sat in the industry's attention.

For what the listed companies in this field did over the same period, the D20 index roster tracks the corporate side. For what has since been deployed on public roads, the deployment tracker records operators, cities and dates, and the research library holds the papers this reporting drew on.

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Reports filed under Future

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