Rogers outage triggers ‘scary and frightening’ glimpse into future
Rogers Communications Inc.’s national network outage, which knocked out cellular, internet and home phone service to millions of Canadians...
Read MoreZoox robotaxi with supercar DNA rolls toward SF, Vegas, Seattle streets
The Zoox robotaxi has more in common with a supercar than you think. Look past the Zoox’s breadbox-shaped exterior and inside is the same...
Read MoreAI ethics and that viral story of the chess playing robot that broke the finger of a seven-year-old during a heated chess match proffers spellbinding autonomous systems lessons
You almost assuredly know that the world gets intrigued by those eye-catching eyebrow-raising man-bites-dog types of stories. Well, I...
Read MoreHow the simulated world is assisting the automotive industry
Virtual reality (VR) applications are growing rapidly across sectors as diverse as entertainment, professional services and even...
Read MoreWhich companies are serious contenders for leading in vehicle automation?
With the healthy stance Tesla has in the electric vehicle market you would think they are the lead contender for autonomy as they are...
Read MoreMusk says one thing is central to the future of the car
The connected car, the electric car, the autonomous car: The future of the automobile has often been publicly debated in these terms for...
Read MoreAI ethics struggling with the fiery one-two punch of both AI-based autonomous weapons systems and the exploitation of AI-driven autonomous systems that are devilishly weaponized
Those amazing dancing four-legged robots. I’m sure that you’ve seen those viral videos of the four-legged robotic systems that dance and...
Read MoreAI ethics and autonomous systems lessons gleaned from that recent Alaska Airlines flight where the pilot and co-pilot disagreed prior to taking off and abruptly opted to taxi back to the terminal and go their separate ways
Airlines have been in the news quite a bit lately. We are in the summertime crunch of flights. Weary and frustrated passengers find...
Read More5 ways autonomous cars will reshape our world
What we consider to be autonomous car technology is a complex combination of algorithms, sensors, actuators, automotive parts and robust...
Read MoreLow-tech trucks in a high-tech world
Back in April, HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge and I spent a day touring the Autocar manufacturing plant in Birmingham, Alabama. The...
Read MoreAmazon’s Zoox says its robotaxi has met the highest crash safety standards
Zoox, the robotaxi startup Amazon bought two years ago, says it is now certified to meet the highest U.S. crash safety standards and is...
Read MoreImportance of AI safety being smartly illuminated amid latest trends showcased at Stanford AI Safety Workshop encompassing autonomous systems
AI safety is vital. You would be hard-pressed to seemingly argue otherwise....
Read MoreMunicipalities explore autonomous vehicles to expand citizen mobility
Around the nation, cities are experimenting with autonomous vehicles, or AV, as part of their transportation mix. In Ann Arbor, Mich.,...
Read MoreTesla’s new Full Self-Driving Beta (10.13) is about left turn, animal detection, speed limits, and more
Tesla’s new Full Self-Driving Beta update (10.13) is all about left turns, animal detection, speed limits, and much more. Here are the...
Read MoreArtificial intelligence in autonomous vehicles
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the automotive industry by storm to drive the development of level-4 and level-5 autonomous...
Read MoreLiDAR, cameras, Tesla
“LiDAR is a fool’s errand. And anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed.” This was said by Elon Musk (cofounder and CEO of Tesla) during Tesla’s...
Read MoreAI ethics cautiously assessing whether offering AI biases hunting bounties to catch and nab ethically wicked fully autonomous systems is prudent or futile
Wanted: AI bias hunters. That could be a modern-day ad that you’ll begin to see popping up on social media channels and making appearances...
Read MoreThe future of personal mobility
Right now, personal mobility across the majority of the United States is primarily in the form of privately-owned vehicles. The goal:...
Read MoreAn inside look at liability in the era of autonomous vehicles
As automated driving systems become increasingly standard across the automotive industry, they continue to grow in sophistication,...
Read MoreAI ethics ringing alarm bells about the looming specter of AI biases at massive global scale, especially fueled via looming fully autonomous systems
Plato famously stated that a good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. This keen insight seems amazingly prescient about...
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