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  • When Broadband Speeds and Price Don’t Matter

    When Broadband Speeds and Price Don’t Matter

    This post could be considered an update of a 2004 article, Cable Modem vs. DSL – From the San Francisco Bay to Tampa Bay That article compared DSL to Cable Modem service provisioning in two different locations. This was the era before smart phones, ubiquitous broadband, and TR-069 for remote management of CPE. DSL was…

  • Viodi View – 02/28/26

    Viodi View – 02/28/26

    AI agents create content from the online and real-world zeitgeist. This is one of the epiphanies from a thirty-second music creation experiment. See the Korner for more details on that ViodiTV experiment. But first, we will focus on a key leader in the rural broadband industry. This leader has been prominent for the past couple…

  • The Automatic Camera Cleaner for Clear Autonomous Driving

    The Automatic Camera Cleaner for Clear Autonomous Driving

    There are generally two camps when it comes to the topic of autonomous vehicle sensing: Camp Fusion believes that fusing multiple sensor types—vision, LiDAR, radar, etc.—is a prerequisite for safety. Members of this camp, such as Zoox and the current iteration of Waymo, argue that sensors like LiDAR and radar provide superhuman perception capabilities that…

  • Viodi View – 01/24/26

    Viodi View – 01/24/26

    “Safety First.” This is the mantra for any reputable company. It applies to the protection of staff as well as the operation of a product or service. In the realm of autonomous vehicles, is safety a unique selling proposition or is it a necessary condition? Professor Kornhauser and Michael Sena argue the latter in this…

  • The AI-Driven Intersection

    The AI-Driven Intersection

    Jeff Brandes’ Vision to Make Florida’s Roads Intelligent In the above interview, Jeff Brandes, the former Florida State Senator and current President of the Florida Policy Project provides his view on autonomy and the latest developments seen at CES, where this interview was filmed.  Brandes has spent his career looking for the “Big Idea” in…

  • Gadzooks – A Brief View of a Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle

    Gadzooks – A Brief View of a Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle

    TL;DR and Background This is a tough love article, as this author wants to see mobility services like Zoox succeed. That bias started with this 2014 Viodi fictional story about the wide-ranging impact of an affordable, accessible driverless ride-share service. Purpose-built, autonomous electric vehicles, like what Zoox is testing in Las Vegas are central to…