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Importance of AI safety being smartly illuminated amid latest trends showcased at Stanford AI Safety Workshop encompassing autonomous systems

Posted on Jul 20, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

AI safety is vital. You would be hard-pressed to seemingly argue otherwise....

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Municipalities explore autonomous vehicles to expand citizen mobility

Posted on Jul 19, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Around the nation, cities are experimenting with autonomous vehicles, or AV, as part of their transportation mix. In Ann Arbor, Mich.,...

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Tesla’s new Full Self-Driving Beta (10.13) is about left turn, animal detection, speed limits, and more

Posted on Jul 18, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

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...

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Artificial intelligence in autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jul 17, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the automotive industry by storm to drive the development of level-4 and level-5 autonomous...

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LiDAR, cameras, Tesla

Posted on Jul 17, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

“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...

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AI ethics cautiously assessing whether offering AI biases hunting bounties to catch and nab ethically wicked fully autonomous systems is prudent or futile

Posted on Jul 16, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

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...

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The future of personal mobility

Posted on Jul 13, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Right now, personal mobility across the majority of the United States is primarily in the form of privately-owned vehicles. The goal:...

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An inside look at liability in the era of autonomous vehicles

Posted on Jul 13, 2022 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation

As automated driving systems become increasingly standard across the automotive industry, they continue to grow in sophistication,...

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AI ethics ringing alarm bells about the looming specter of AI biases at massive global scale, especially fueled via looming fully autonomous systems

Posted on Jul 13, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

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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What’s the tech background of an autonomous-vehicle engineer?

Posted on Jul 12, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Cruise, the San-Francisco–based designer and operator of all-electric self-driving cars, employs nearly 2,000 engineers, including...

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Tesla vs. Nvidia positioning in autonomy, inflation expectations and signs of capitulation

Posted on Jul 11, 2022 in Markets, Perspective, Technology

In this week’s Weekly Insights we focus on Tesla vs. Nvidia positioning in autonomy, inflation expectations and signs of...

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AI ethics exasperated by those gaslighting AI-focused edgelords that goadingly say outlandishly infuriating things about AI ethics and AI autonomous systems

Posted on Jul 10, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

There are some people that seem to have as their life mission the purpose of goading and infuriating the rest of us. You assuredly know...

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Tesla Full Self Driving Beta: 5 strikes, you’re out!

Posted on Jul 9, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

I thought I had written my last article on FSD Beta until I got access again. However, with almost 300 comments on my last article, I need...

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The self-driving big rigs that you’ll see on the highway soon

Posted on Jul 9, 2022 in Perspective, Trucks

If you’re blasé about autonomous cars, don’t throw self-driving trucks out with them. Both aim to automate activity on the...

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XPeng CEO explores current upsides & downsides of XPeng self-driving tech

Posted on Jul 8, 2022 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Technology, Videos & Podcasts

Every automaker and their cousin is going to lead us into an autonomous driving future … according to their press departments. In...

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The future of parcel shipping and delivery

Posted on Jul 8, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

The future of parcel shipping is endless—the cliché of all clichés, but what does that really mean? It means technology. From pick-up...

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Cruise robotaxis keep stalling on SF streets, how upset should we be?

Posted on Jul 8, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Numerous reports have emerged of multiple robotaxis from GM’s Cruise unit stalling on San Francisco streets, sometimes blocking...

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AI ethics struggles with that pervasive AI optimization mindset when it comes to devilishly underplaying or outright skirting around ethical AI precepts amidst autonomous systems

Posted on Jul 7, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

My code runs faster than your code. My program takes up less memory than yours does. The telltale undercurrent here is regarding...

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Autonomous vehicles are a dream for drug smugglers — and the law must prepare

Posted on Jul 7, 2022 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation

Level 5 autonomous vehicles (AVs) will allow shipping companies to significantly decrease their costs and their liability as they will no...

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AI ethics perturbed by latest China devised AI party-loyalty mind-reading facial recognition attestation that might foreshadow oppressive autonomous systems

Posted on Jul 5, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Are you loyal? In theory, it might be possible to examine your overt deeds and ascertain whether loyalty is exhibited by your actions....

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