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It will soon be easy for self-driving cars to hide in plain sight. We shouldn’t let them

Posted on May 14, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Last month, a video went viral that showed a San Francisco police officer, at night, stopping a car that didn’t have its headlights on....

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Developers take varied paths to autonomous trucking

Posted on May 12, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Autonomous trucking is branching into multiple approaches and each has a different route to commercialization....

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Auditing of AI is tricky, especially when it comes to assessing AI ethics compliance, and vexing too for auditing those autonomous self-driving cars

Posted on May 12, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Are you familiar with this classic nursery rhyme: Old Mother Hubbard, went to the cupboard, to fetch her poor dog a bone, And when she...

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Paving the way for AVs

Posted on May 10, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

HORIBA MIRA recently opened a £100m complex to test autonomous vehicles (AVs). To learn more, we caught up with Alastair Evanson....

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The networking challenges confronting autonomous vehicles

Posted on May 10, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

In my previous article, I discussed how sensor fusion is paving the way for the future of autonomous vehicles (AVs), allowing them to...

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Transit: Getting there publicly

Posted on May 9, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

ModuTran ATN Vehicles in Guadalajara, Mexico, ride high in the sky. Spurred by consumer use and municipal priorities, autonomous public...

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Barriers and challenges of AV deployment

Posted on May 9, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Roughly 5-10 years ago, everyone looked forward to the introduction of fully automated and autonomous systems from 2020 through to 2025 –...

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Use case: Suntrax – on track

Posted on May 9, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

SunTrax will open this year as a major R&D hub for autonomous vehicles. A virtuous-triangle collaboration by three compatible...

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AI ethics and the law are dabbling with AI disgorgement or all-out destruction of AI as a remedy for AI wrongdoing, possibly even for misbehaving self-driving cars

Posted on May 9, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

You might say that society seems nearly obsessed with indestructibility. We relish movies and sci-fi stories that showcase superhumans...

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Smelling technology could detect problems in self-driving taxis

Posted on May 6, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

An AI-powered nose could help robotaxi operators sniff out problematic odors — like the lingering scent of a passenger’s tuna...

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Autonomous vehicles will add to traffic chaos, not solve it

Posted on May 5, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

In a popular video, Youtuber GCP Grey makes the claim that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will solve traffic jams. Whilst the basic logic...

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The middle-mile delivery challenge isn’t sexy, but autonomous trucks can fix it

Posted on May 5, 2022 in Perspective, Trucks

When you think of autonomous trucking, most of the airspace is given to the long-haul variety, especially with the driver shortage still...

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AI ethics is especially vexed by that AI confinement problem, including the knotty particulars for confining autonomous self-driving cars

Posted on May 5, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

The famous illusionist and acclaimed escape artist Harry Houdini once boldly declared this rather unabashed assertion: “No prison can hold...

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A new path to Level 5 autonomy

Posted on May 4, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Companies have poured billions into funding and resources to develop autonomous vehicles and yet, after years of research and development,...

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Tesla will envy the permit that Baidu just received

Posted on May 4, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Is your Mom tech-savvy? Baidu  (BIDU) – Get Baidu Inc. Report really wants to know. “Moms aren’t usually known for their...

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Autonomous trucking transition to drive job change, not job loss

Posted on May 3, 2022 in Perspective, Trucks

The automation of the commercial trucking industry has generated concerns about the potential for mass layoffs of drivers. A growing body...

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AI ethics battling stubborn myth that AI is infallible, including that autonomous self-driving cars are going to be unfailing and error-free

Posted on May 3, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

AI must always be right. Wait for a second, does that sentence mean that AI is in fact always right, or does it suggest that if we are...

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Tesla Full Self Driving Beta: How close to Level 5 autonomy?

Posted on May 3, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Background: I purchased my Tesla Model 3 on October 22, 2019, and have 66,034 miles on the odometer. I’ve only had one significant repair,...

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Ground-up design and the future of transportation

Posted on May 2, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

This article is the first in a three-part series that comes from a recent interview with Jesse Levinson, CTO and founder of Zoox. In this...

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Lexus RZ 450e prototype drive: A new take on how driving works

Posted on May 2, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Toyota and its luxury brand Lexus are no strangers to technological innovation or to pushing the boundaries of style and design. Now the...

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