Autonomous Vehicles Content / Autonomous Vehicles Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en Can Autonomous Vehicles Dream of Electric Traffic? /blog/can-autonomous-vehicles-dream-electric-traffic <p><span lang="EN">An engineering professor at the University of California, Davis, is striving to make autonomous vehicles, or AVs, safer by changing how researchers train them.</span></p><p><span lang="EN">According to Professor </span><a href="https://ece.ucdavis.edu/directory/junshan-zhang"><span lang="EN">Junshan Zhang</span></a><span lang="EN"> of the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, AVs struggle when confronted with unforeseen events, such as a car driving on the wrong side of the road.&nbsp;</span></p> August 08, 2024 - 2:10pm Andy Fell /blog/can-autonomous-vehicles-dream-electric-traffic Automated Shuttle Comes to 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis West Village /climate/news/automated-shuttle-comes-to-uc-davis-west-village <p>A new visitor is making the rounds at the University of California, Davis’ West Village neighborhood.&nbsp;</p> <p>Through June 1, San Jose-based Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation’s (SAIC) Innovation Center is demonstrating its automated, all-electric shuttle around a defined loop of the solar-panel-lined West Village community as part of an agreement between the auto company and 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis.&nbsp;</p> April 02, 2019 - 4:26pm Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/automated-shuttle-comes-to-uc-davis-west-village Roadkill Report a Roadmap to Avoiding Wildlife Collisions /news/roadkill-report-roadmap-avoiding-wildlife-collisions <p>Collisions with wildlife continue to cost up to half a billion dollars each year in California, primarily within the central Sierra Nevada and San Francisco Bay Area. But certain highways have especially high numbers of wildlife collisions, according to the <a href="https://roadecology.ucdavis.edu/files/content/news/CA_WVC_Hotspots_2018.pdf">annual roadkill report</a> from the <a href="https://roadecology.ucdavis.edu/">51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis Road Ecology Center</a>.</p> September 18, 2018 - 3:27pm Katherine E Kerlin /news/roadkill-report-roadmap-avoiding-wildlife-collisions