Open-Source Autonomy – A Security Threat or Shield?

With StreetDrone advocating an industry-wide change to open-source led urban autonomy, does it follow that cybersecurity will be weaker if it is based on publicly available code? StreetDrone, a leading full stack autonomous vehicle company based in the UK, has been a strident advocate for the benefits that a collaborative approach to autonomous mobility could […]

Pressing Re-Set on Autonomous Mobility Pt2

In the second of a two-part conversation with Mike Potts, CEO of StreetDrone, he lends us his thoughts on the outlook for post-Covid autonomous mobility – better, worse or just different? Q – Mike, we spoke at some length a week ago about the outlook for post-Covid autonomous mobility, specifically about the need to remove […]

Pressing Re-Set on Autonomous Mobility Pt1

In the first of a two-part conversation with Mike Potts, CEO of StreetDrone, he lends us his thoughts on the outlook for post-Covid autonomous mobility – better, worse or just different? Q – Mike, of course there are far more pressing issues out there at the moment than autonomous mobility, but how do you think […]

[Hello World!] – Localisation (NDT)

In this new series of fortnightly technical blogs, StreetDrone is going to lift the LiD(-AR) on one aspect of autonomous driving software development. Our “Hello World!” series is written by software engineer Efimia Panagiotaki, a tech-trotter with engineering experience ranging from the National Technical University of Athens to ETH Zurich to Williams Formula 1. Efimia […]

StreetDrone in the News: Meet the man who ‘drives’ driverless cars

In today’s Telegraph, project engineer Ross James explains the role of a safety driver, and his real world experiences of trialing autonomous vehicle technology. In the article, Ross describes some of the key challenges he faces on a day to day basis as he oversees StreetDrone’s real world deployments of open source self-driving software. To […]