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Autonomous trucks will roll in slow [commentary]

Posted on Apr 20, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

A headline might sing like a canary, yet not deliver on its promise. As I write this, there’s a headline popping up all over the place. It...

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Blending machine learning and radar for enhanced navigation

Posted on Apr 19, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Two hot technologies these days are artificial intelligence (AI) and self-driving cars. One of the sensors used with the latter is radar....

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The ‘race’ to win the autonomous truck market

Posted on Apr 19, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

There is no doubt that autonomous trucks will change the face of logistics. But there are questions that many would like clarity on around...

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Three ways AI is impacting the automobile industry

Posted on Apr 19, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Autonomous cars are as intrinsic to visions of the future as holograms and space travel. Since the birth of science fiction, the...

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How do autonomous trucks “see” the world?

Posted on Apr 18, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

We’ll call a human a truck driver after he or she completes a two-week training program, yet it takes tens of millions of miles and...

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AI ethics and the acclaimed AI uncanny valley, which also rattles AI-based self-driving cars

Posted on Apr 18, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Sometimes there are slightly oddish things that catch your attention and get your intuitive juices going that there is somehow something...

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Autonomous delivery vehicles to revolutionize shopping, shift consumer preferences

Posted on Apr 14, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Udelv unveiled its first cab-less autonomous electric delivery vehicle for multi-stop delivery, the Transporter at CES this year. The...

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Finding great value in the United Nations UNESCO historic AI Ethics agreement, which provides handy insights even for those burgeoning AI-based self-driving cars

Posted on Apr 14, 2022 in News, Perspective

Be forewarned, there are more than you can shake a stick at. Yes, indeed, there are so many AI Ethics guidelines popping up these days...

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Meet Zoox the 100% EV and autonomous human transportation company from Amazon

Posted on Apr 12, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

Imagine you are at Jazz Alley at 2.30am on a Saturday night and you want a ride home. Now you might go with an Uber or Lyft driver, and...

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Moving out of Silicon Valley: How autonomy and design got me thinking

Posted on Apr 11, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

When planning to leave Silicon Valley, never once did it cross my mind that the ride to SFO would be on an autonomously enabled car,...

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Solutions for self-driving cars – Q&A with NVIDIA

Posted on Apr 11, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Technology

To learn how electronics specialist NVIDIA is developing artificial intelligence and high performance computing solutions for the...

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AI ethics welcomes the prospects of a standardized AI risk management framework, which could bolster autonomous self-driving car efforts too

Posted on Apr 11, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

We seem to be told repeatedly that taking risks is important in life. If you look at any everyday listing of quotable quotes there is a...

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Should cars drive like humans or robots? Tesla forces the question

Posted on Apr 10, 2022 in Cars, Perspective, Policy & Regulation, Technology

Matt Smith didn’t necessarily mind that the software inside his Tesla would occasionally skirt a traffic law. For a while, his Tesla Model...

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Insidious AI-based proxy discrimination against humans is dauntingly vexing for AI ethics, which can occur even in the case of autonomous AI self-driving cars

Posted on Apr 10, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

Let’s discuss proxy discrimination amid the actions of modern-day Artificial Intelligence (AI). To get into the AI side of things, we’ll...

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Inside Mercedes’ plan to deliver hands-free driving to the masses

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

I’m sitting in the passenger seat of a special Mercedes Benz S-Class on a blindingly bright California spring day, casually watching an...

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Automotive vehicle networking technology is becoming a standard

Posted on Apr 7, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

An uptick in self-automated vehicles has become more mainstream over the past couple of years. From government-issued vehicles to...

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90% of long-haul trucking may soon be self-driving. Are you ready to share the road with an autonomous 18-wheeler?

Posted on Apr 7, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Elon Musk has called them the most impactful technology on the horizon. But unions are lobbying against their widespread use, citing...

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Autonomous origins: Did it all start with cruise control?

Posted on Apr 6, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Do we really want autonomous trucks? Or need them? I’m not a big fan, but it doesn’t matter what I think, because the engineering effort...

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Are you up to speed on autonomous trucking?

Posted on Apr 5, 2022 in Perspective, Technology, Trucks

Let’s set the scene. You’ve been hearing about autonomous technology for what feels like years. You read about advancements in the...

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AI ethics stepping up to guide how AI for children needs to be suitably devised, which can be overlooked for example in the rapid drive toward autonomous self-driving cars

Posted on Apr 5, 2022 in Perspective, Technology

It is often said that our children are our future. Another oft-repeated refrain is that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is our future. What...

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