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States diverge on AV regulation. How much is too much?

Posted on May 19, 2022 in Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology

Winding roads lie ahead for autonomous vehicles, and not just in the literal sense. The landscape is also a mish-mash of regulation,...

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AI ethics forewarns don’t be caught in machine learning myopia by overlooking neuro-symbolic AI, including for autonomous self-driving cars

Posted on May 19, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Some say this town isn’t big enough for both of them. What am I referring to? Well, it could be that I am invoking an ever-popular and...

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AI ethics tempted but hesitant to use AI adversarial attacks against the evils of machine learning, including for self-driving cars

Posted on May 16, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

It is widely accepted sage wisdom to garner as much as you can about your adversaries. Frederick The Great, the famous king of Prussia and...

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Autonomous driving: Do we need a common language to move forward?

Posted on May 16, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Autonomous, automated, self-driving or driverless – it all means the same thing, right? At the moment, these terms are all used...

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Tesla Full Self Driving Beta: How close to Level 5 autonomy? (Readers chime in)

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

I just spent three 10 hour days driving 1500 miles from Utah to Wisconsin in my long-range Tesla Model 3. With two heavy mountain e-bikes...

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The problem with self-driving cars

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

Aka: Why this burning money pit has failed to produce meaningful results for decades. The future is here, and it looks nothing like we...

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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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