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Smart cars with automatic sensor driving on metropolis with wireless connection

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 4, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, DeNA, Easy Ride, Levels of autonomy (self-driving cars), Nissan, NTT DoCoMo, self-driving cars, William Dembski}

Nissan Develops Autonomous Taxi Service in Japan

_{Nissan recently chose to advance their pursuit of an autonomous vehicle by developing a taxi service to work in limited locations} _{Jonathan Bartlett

October 4, 2021

4

Artificial Intelligence}

One of the quieter players in the development of autonomous technology over the last decade has been Nissan. They originally announced the development of their autonomous technology in 2013, claiming that it would be fully ready to bring to market by 2020. While Nissan had a more realistic timeline than other companies touting autonomous development, it fell prey to the same failure to realize the actual complications that are inherent in truly autonomous scenarios. A graphic developed by Nissan in 2017 (shown below) shows the naïveté that was rampant during that time period. Nissan imagined that there were four stages to the development of autonomous vehicles— (1) single-lane highway, (2) multi-lane highway, (3) city driving, and then (4) full autonomy. The problem, as we have noted Read More ›

Smart car (HUD) , Autonomous self-driving mode vehicle on metro city road iot concept with graphic sensor radar signal system and internet sensor connect.

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Author
News
Date
August 21, 2021

Categorized
Arts & Culture, Science

Tagged
Autonomous (film), Autonomous Vehicles, Joe Sill, Science fiction}

Machine World at Its Most Nihilist — Sci-fi Saturday

_{This very short animated cyberpunk thriller portrays a world of autonomous vehicles where faces are very rare} _{News

August 21, 2021

17

Arts & Culture, Science}

“Autonomous” (2020) uploaded at DUST by Joe Sill (June 24, 2021, 4:38 min) Animated. An animated cyberpunk thriller centered around a motorcycle gang of traffickers in a world of autonomous vehicles.Yuri and her brother Nyx face off against the Metro Task Force as they transport an important package to a client. Review: This animated (very) shortfilm sketches drug dealing in Detroit in a world of autonomous vehicles. It’s a mad rush on motorcycles to a pier amid sealed robocars, pursued by cops who are not clearly human. It’s certainly a scary and inhuman world. The story ends, as so many real-life ones do, with a tragic waste of life. But there seems no point to it really. “Autonomous” seems to Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
June 21, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, Ophelia Deroy, self-driving cars}

Researchers: Humans “Exploit” Machines Without a Sense of Guilt!

_{Humans, we are told, are so unethical that we take advantage of "benevolent" self-driving cars} _{News

June 21, 2021

4

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind}

In case no one knew this, humans are cruel, greedy, and deceptive. We even take advantage of self-driving cars. Our crimes are revealed in a recent study that scolds humans as “unwilling to cooperate and compromise with machines. They even exploit them.” When you’ve stopped laughing, you might be interested to learn of some intriguing findings from studies of human behavior around self-driving cars (autonomous vehicles) and Prisoner’s Dilemma games. One team of researchers, in a test involving 9 experiments and 2000 participants, tried to determine whether humans would behave as co-operatively with AI systems as we do with fellow humans: The study which is published in the journal iScience found that, upon first encounter, people have the same level Read More ›

Woman passenger sitting in the backseat and selects a route when her self-driving car rides on the highway.

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
April 29, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, Autonomous vehicles (edge cases), Elon Musk, Levels of autonomy (self-driving cars), self-driving cars, Tesla, Tesla (regulatory filings)}

Tesla Continues to Walk Back Full Self-Driving Claims

_{In 2016, Tesla (TSLA) couldn’t tell enough people that its cars would soon drive themselves} _{Jonathan Bartlett

April 29, 2021

4

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

In 2019, Tesla raised billions of dollars on the prospect of a fleet of a million robotaxis by the next year. However, starting on the Q3 2019 earnings call, CEO Elon Musk started walking back some of those claims. To begin with, in that earnings call, Musk started saying that “feature complete” really just meant that the “City Streets” version would be operable, not that it could actually drive without assistance. A year later, in regulatory filings with the California DMV, Tesla said, “As such, a final release of City Streets will continue to be an SAE Level 2, advanced driver-assistance feature.” In the accepted terminology around levels of self-driving, truly self-driving vehicles are classed as SAE Level 5. Level Read More ›

Motorsport racing track and car slammed brakes sign

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Author
Richard W. Stevens
Date
April 28, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Law

Tagged
Autonomous braking systems (risks), Autonomous Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles (braking systems), Autonomous Vehicles (lawsuits), Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS), driverless cars, Elon Musk, Forward Collision Avoidance Braking System, Motor vehicle collisions (and AI), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), NHTSA, self-driving cars, Tesla}

Artificial Intelligence Slams on the Brakes

_{The problem of autonomous cars suddenly slamming the brakes is becoming well known and it has no known fix} _{Richard W. Stevens

April 28, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Law}

Having just donated your well-worn 1994 Toyota Camry to charity, you’re driving a brand new 2020 Honda sedan on a major street, enjoying air-conditioned comfort on a sunny day, with the satellite radio service narrowcasting tunes from the soundtrack of your life. Then, WHAM! In a half second, the car slows from 45 to 20 — and you never touched the brake pedal. You never saw it coming but your neck is still reminding you painfully of your whiplash injury. A close family member experienced this exact scenario just a month ago. She never touched the brake pedal. What happened? The dealership’s sales representative had not explained each and every feature of this postmodern car and certainly didn’t warn about Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski
Date
April 20, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Programming

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, Erik J. Larson, Eugene Goostman, Eye contact (and communication), Featured, Google's gorillas (image analyzer failure), Myth of Artificial Intelligence (book), self-driving cars, Tay (chatbot)}

Automated Driving and Other Failures of AI

_{How would autonomous cars manage in an environment where eye contact with other drivers is important?} _{William A. Dembski

April 20, 2021

4

Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Programming}

Yesterday I posted a review here of philosopher and programmer Erik Larson’s The Myth of Artificial Intelligence. There’s a lot more I would like to say. Here are some additional notes, to which I will add in a couple of future posts. Three of the failures of Big Tech that I listed earlier (Eugene Goostman, Tay, and the image analyzer that Google lobotomized so that it could no longer detect gorillas, even mistakenly) were obvious frauds and/or blunders. Goostman was a fraud out of the box. Tay a blunder that might be fixed in the sense that its racist language could be mitigated through some appropriate machine learning. And the Google image analyzer — well that was just pathetic: either retire the image Read More ›

electric vehicle of the future using smart electric car charging station at home frontal perspective

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Author
News
Date
March 3, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Environment

Tagged
Apple (company), Autonomous Vehicles, Baidu, Batteries (electric cars), Britain, Cars (as addiction), China, Daimler, Electric car market, Electric vehicles, Farhad Manjoo, Geely, iCar concept, Jonathan Bartlett, Level 4 vs. Level 5 self-driving, Public transit (autonomous), self-driving cars}

Apple Is Once Again Eyeing the Smart Car Market

_{Other firms are jumping in or ramping up and, with the fog from the COVID-19 pandemic clearing, we are looking out at a broader array of new vehicle plans} _{News

March 3, 2021

5

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Environment}

Early in February, rumor had it that Apple is once again eyeing the smart car market, both electric and self-driving. Improved batteries and new environment regulations might make smart cars a promising new business area. According to USA Today, the “iCar” is certain to be an electric vehicle costing over $40,000. The self-driving part is more of a challenge: But a self-driving car could introduce a “longer timeframe” in part due to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s cautious approach to unveiling new products, Ives said. Automakers and tech companies have yet to solve the thorniest challenges associated with autonomous driving. Nathan Bomey, “Is Apple making an electric, self-driving car? If it does, here are 5 things you could see” at USA Read More ›

Young woman traveling in self driving car

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Author
News
Date
January 9, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Jonathan Bartlett, Level Five self-driving, Level Four self-driving, Levels of autonomy (self-driving cars), Robert J. Marks}

#8 AI 2020 Smash Hit: Big Gains in Practical Self-Driving Cars

_{The people who have been pursuing Level Five self-driving are nowhere but Level Four is working well} _{News

January 9, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Our Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks is back with Jonathan Bartlett and Eric Holloway, explaining their choices for Top Ten real advances (“Smash Hits”) in AI in 2020. Readers may recall that we offered a fun series during the holidays about the oopses and ums and ers in the discipline (typically hyped by uncritical sources). Now it’s time to celebrate the real achievements and our nerds think that #8 is the big advances in practical self-driving cars, that is Level Four cars. The car industry defines five levels of self-driving. Level Five would be Elon Musk’s robotaxis that earn money all on their own while the owners’ sleep (hasn’t happened). Level Four is the practical approach, as Jonathan Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
January 7, 2021

Tagged
AI vs pilot dogfight, Autonomous Vehicles, Case for Killer Robots (book), Comma.ai, Daimler, DARPA, Eric Holloway, General Motors, hacking, Jonathan Bartlett, Language, Machine Learning, military technology, Neural networks, self-driving cars, smart cars, text translation, The Case for Killer Robots, translation, Waymo}

AI Smash Hits 2020 Part I

_{Robert J. Marks

January 7, 2021

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An ultimate test of a successful technology is whether it has been reduced to practice. Has it made a financial impact on the market? Has it been adopted by the very picky US military? Has it changed lives? We’re going to count down the AI Smash Hits: the top ten AI success stories for 2020. Join Dr. Robert J. Marks as he Read More ›

Tired man sitting in car, wearing in sleeping mask

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Author
News
Date
January 1, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, Elon Musk, Eric Holloway, Featured, Jonathan Bartlett, Robert J. Marks, self-driving cars}

#4 Elon Musk: This Time Autopilot Is Going To WORK!

_{Jonathan Bartlett: I have to say, part of me loves Elon Musk and part of me can't stand the guy} _{News

January 1, 2021

7

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Our nerds here at the Walter Bradley Center have been discussing the top twelve AI hypes of the year. Our director Robert J. Marks, Eric Holloway and Jonathan Bartlett talk about overyhyped AI ideas (from a year in which we saw major advances, along with inevitable hypes). From AI Dirty Dozen 2020 Part III, here’s #4: Elon Musk’s fully self-driving software is finally going to work: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday that the test version of the company’s Autopilot system will be released in “a month or so.” While he didn’t describe its capabilities, Musk said that once it’s out, “you’ll see what it’s like. It’s amazing. It’s clearly going to work.” Chris Woodyard, “Elon Musk says Tesla’s full Read More ›

Autonomous vehicles on highway with self driving cars sensing environment by radar and operating safely on speedway thanks to artificial intelligence and control systems, automated transport concept

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
November 18, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Economics

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Level 4 self-driving, Level 5 self-driving, self-driving cars, Tesla, Uber}

What Real Advantage Do Self-Driving Cars Provide?

_{It’s time for a hard-headed look at the costs and benefits of the pursuit of fully self-driving cars} _{Jonathan Bartlett

November 18, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Economics}

More and more people are realizing that autonomous (self-driving) vehicles are not a road to automotive prosperity. To recap, Level 5 self-driving is what most people think of when they hear the term “self-driving.” You type in an address and the car takes you where you want to go while you sleep in the back. That car is not going to hit the road anytime soon. Level 4 self-driving is similar but only works within well-defined areas or situations. In practice, Level 4 essentially relies on either intelligent infrastructure or a territory that is so predictable and well-mapped that it obviates the need for intelligent infrastructure. Huge amounts have been invested in self-driving vehicles. The Information estimated that $16 billion Read More ›

Autopilot self-driving car system with no human intervention. Close up cropped image of hand of African male driver browsing the internet using smartphone and touchscreen in futuristic autonomous car

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
October 26, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, Dailmer, driverless cars, Elon Musk, Featured, Levels of autonomy (self-driving cars), Tesla, Waymo}

Self-Driving Cars: Waymo Beats Tesla By Picking the Right Target

_{Trying to get the human out of the loop, as Musk proposes, becomes increasingly costly as the complexity increases} _{Jonathan Bartlett

October 26, 2020

5

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Full self-driving has been a contentious topic in the last few years. In 2016, Elon Musk started claiming that his cars had all the hardware needed to do full self-driving, and that the software would be there by 2019. You would be able to summon a car from across the United States and it would drive across the country, recharging as needed, to pick you up, no driver needed. He has specifically indicated that he means Level 5 autonomy, which means that no driver is needed at all. The driver can sleep, watch a movie, or just hang out in the back seat. In fact, in 2016, he indicated that drivers were merely there for regulatory purposes. Musk’s claims about Read More ›

Creative background, male hand holding a phone with a 5G hologram on the background of the city. The concept of 5G network, high-speed mobile Internet, new generation networks. Copy space,

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Author
News
Date
September 4, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

Tagged
5G, ACES, Autonomous Vehicles, Bellevue (Washington), Bruce Agnew, Cascadia Center, Communication, Featured, Jay Richards, Seattle, Transportation}

Seattle Area a Good Site for 5G Development, Says Analyst

_{By increasing bandwidth and reducing slow times, 5G will enable more people to do more online} _{News

September 4, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

At COSM 2019, Jay Richards interviewed Bruce Agnew, Director of the Seattle-based ACES Northwest Network on the collective’s work in bringing ACES (Automated, Connected, Electric, and Shared) vehicle technologies to the Puget Sound region. They discussed, among other things, the role that 5G will play in implementing autonomous vehicles. Since 1993, Bruce Agnew has been the Policy Director of Seattle-based Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center. The Cascadia Center is a strategic alliance from Vancouver, BC, to Eugene, Oregon, promoting high speed passenger rail, Interstate-5 freight mobility, seamless border crossings, bi-national and bi-state tourism marketing, and sustainable community development. Two of his co-chairs, Tom Alberg and Bryan Mistele, were also interviewed in this series (at the links). From the interview: Agnew began Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
August 28, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

Tagged
ACES, Autonomous Vehicles, employment, Featured, Jay Richards, Job Displacement, self-driving cars, Tom Alberg, Traffic fatalities}

Autonomous Vehicles Are Not a “Rich Person’s” Technology

_{A transportation expert tells Jay Richards, alternative transport may disrupt the transportation industry but only in the short term} _{News

August 28, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Jay Richards talked recently with Tom Alberg, Founder of the Madrona Venture Group and Co-chair of the ACES Northwest Network, about ACES’ efforts to bring Automated, Connected, Electric, and Shared vehicle technologies to the Puget Sound region: The Benefits of ACES Vehicle Technology A partial transcript follows: Jay Richards: Well, you were chairing the panel on autonomous vehicles and you’re part of an initiative here in Seattle. What do you think is the most important takeaway from that? Tom Alberg: I think that it’s really a combination of technologies. It’s both new technologies and it’s changed business models. So we formed a group here in Seattle called ACES, Autonomous, Connected, Electric, and Shared. “Shared” is really kind of the Uber Read More ›

Smart car, Autonomous self-driving concept.

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Author
News
Date
July 21, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy

Tagged
___longform, Autonomous Vehicles, Bryan Mistele, David Lanza, driverless cars, John Gray, John Ioannidis, Matthew B. Crawford, Patrick Keeney, self-driving cars, Why We Drive (book)}

The Political Case Against Self-Driving Cars

_{An auto mechanic turned philosopher warns against ceding control of one’s destination to others, in the relentless pursuit of safety} _{News

July 21, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Technocracy}

Some worry about the role driverless cars might play in the next pandemic lockdown (there will be other pandemics and emergencies). David Lanza offers a thought-provoking scenario for these autonomous/self-driving vehicles: The production of driverless cars remains in its infancy, but if those cars ever become common, the government will have no problem locking us down on the slightest pretext. Driverless cars have no steering wheels and depend upon pre-programmed GPS coordinates to guide them (and us) to our destinations. Aside from entering a destination at the start of a trip, a driver has no way to direct the car. David Lanza, “Driverless Cars Will Make the Next Pandemic Crackdown Complete” at American Thinker The response to the COVID-19 crisis, Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
July 17, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Global Technology

Tagged
ACES, Autonomous Vehicles, Bryan Mistele, Elon Musk, Featured, Jay Richards, Millennials, ride-hailing, Ridesharing, self-driving cars, Trucking}

If Self-Driving Cars Become the Norm, What Will It Feel Like?

_{Already, Millennials are more likely than their parents to see transportation as simply a means to an end} _{News

July 17, 2020

6

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Global Technology}

Recently, Jay Richards interviewed Bryan Mistele, founder and CEO of INRIX, on the non-fiction future of the self-driving car. INRIX provides data systems for analyzing traffic issues relevant to self-driving (autonomous) vehicles. He sees a bright future, amid many misconceptions: From the interview: Jay Richards: What do you think is the key misconception that people have about this technology? Bryan Mistele: I think the biggest misconception is that it’s just about autonomous vehicles. That you’ll go to a dealer, you’ll buy an autonomous vehicle. That’s not really the vision of what people in the industry are pursuing. It’s about what we call the ACES, Autonomous Connected, Electric, and Shared, all working together to deliver, basically, mobility as a service. Certainly Read More ›

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Author
Brendan Dixon
Date
March 11, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, self-driving cars, Trolley problem}

The “Moral Machine” Is Bad News for AI Ethics

_{Despite the recent claims of its defenders, there is no way we can outsource moral decision-making to an automated intelligence} _{Brendan Dixon

March 11, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics}

Here’s the dilemma: The Moral Machine (the Trolley Problem, updated) feels necessary because the rules by which we order our lives are useless with automated vehicles. Laws embody principles that we apply. Machines have no mind by which to apply the rules. Instead researchers must train them with millions of examples and hope the machine extracts the correct message…

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
December 9, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Global Technology

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, Autonomy (film), Driver psychology, driverless cars, Malcolm Gladwell, review}

Gladwell’s Autonomy: The Future of Our Cars But Not Ourselves?

_{Malcolm Gladwell’s recent film probes independence, individuality, and what cars mean to us} _{Jonathan Bartlett

December 9, 2019

5

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Global Technology}

In order to allow for autonomy to develop, the degrees of freedom available on the public roadways will probably have to decrease.

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Author
Brendan Dixon
Date
December 4, 2019

Categorized
Business and Finance

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, self-driving cars, Traffic fatalities, Traffic safety}

Would Selling Self-Driving Cars Sooner Save Lives?

_{Not if we look more closely at the statistics} _{Brendan Dixon

December 4, 2019

5

Business and Finance}

It’s enough to make you want to run out and buy a smart car today. But just a minute. There are other statistics out there. Let’s look at some of them.

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
November 1, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance

Tagged
Autonomous Vehicles, Elon Musk, Robotaxis, self-driving cars}

Elon Musk Walks Back Full Self-Driving Claims

_{His Q3 earnings call with investors was a stark contrast to earlier claims about a robotaxi fleet} _{Jonathan Bartlett

November 1, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance}

Of course, Musk blames other people for “misconstruing” his claims. This certainly isn't the first time he has palmed off responsibility for his own mistakes onto others.