When introducing the keynote speaker at the Iowa Tech Summit Tuesday morning, Paul Hlivko, chief technology officer at Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, jokingly warned the audience to turn off any devices they wanted to keep control over. Charlie Miller waved it off: “I’m not good enough to hack and give a speech at the […]

A John Deere tractor fitted with Smart Ag’s AutoCart driverless technology trucks through a demonstration field during the 2018 Farm Progress Show. Photo by Kate Hayden Driverless cars may take over most of the national headlines these days, but an Iowa software company is betting that autonomous vehicles can make a much larger impact off […]

Dr. Charlie Miller, Principal Autonomous Vehicle Security Architect at Cruise Automation, will deliver the keynote presentation at the Iowa Technology Summit Powered by Wellmark in downtown Des Moines on Oct. 2. Miller is the former head of the autonomous vehicle security division at Didi Chuxing and was previously a National Security Agency hacker. He is […]

What started as a feasibility study concept ended up as framework for a statewide policy for driverless vehicles in Nebraska, reports Silicon Prairie News. The city of Lincoln is the first in the state conducting a pilot test of a Navya autonomous shuttle over several weeks. The shuttle, funded in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, is […]