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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 ›

smart retail concept, robot service use for check the data of or Stores that stock goods on shelves with easily-viewed barcode and prices or photo compared against an idealized representation of store

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Author
News
Date
November 3, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Work

Tagged
Amazon, Autonomous cars, Boeing, driverless cars, employment, Featured, Jobs, Jonathan Bartlett, Robots, self-driving cars, Walmart}

WalMart Shelves Its Robot Inventory Clerks

_{These costly experiences are helping businesses better understand when automation works and when it just doesn’t} _{News

November 3, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Work}

The WalMart automation project started in 2017, as part of an effort to compete with Amazon: Walmart, which posted record online sales in its recent quarter, now has more workers walking the aisles to package online orders, extracting new data on inventory problems, people familiar with the situation told the Wall Street Journal, which was the first to report this news. Reuters Staff, “Walmart drops plans to use robots for tracking inventory” at Reuters Here’s some background: Walmart ended the partnership because it found different, sometimes simpler solutions that proved just as useful – something that came to light during the coronavirus pandemic as more shoppers flock to online delivery and pickup, forcing Walmart to have workers physically walk store Read More ›

Smart car, Autonomous self-driving concept.

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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
November 2, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Ethics

Tagged
Autonomous cars, Autonomous trucks, Daimler, driverless cars, Featured, Levels of autonomy (self-driving cars), self-driving cars, Voyage (automaker), Waymo}

Daimler, Waymo, and GM Make Big Gains in Level 4 Self-Driving

_{GM has been given a permit to test five driverless cars on streets in San Francisco later this year} _{Jonathan Bartlett

November 2, 2020

4

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Ethics}

The Society for Automotive Engineering (SAE) has identified five levels of self-driving which describe how much a particular vehicle is able to handle its own driving tasks. Level 1 means that the vehicle handles either the speed or the steering, but not both, and it requires supervision. While ordinary cruise control technically falls into this level, most people associate cruise control with adaptive cruise control, which slows down or speeds up with traffic. A Level 2 car can control the speed and the steering but the driver must still maintain full vigilance. At Level 3, the driver need not maintain total vigilance but must still be able to take control upon request. Level 4 is “full self-driving” but limited to 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

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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 ›

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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
January 2, 2020

Categorized
Business and Finance, Ethics, Global Technology, Work

Tagged
chatbots, Deepfakes, driverless cars, Predictions for 2020}

Five AI Predictions to Watch in 2020

_{We'll check on these a year from now} _{News

January 2, 2020

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Business and Finance, Ethics, Global Technology, Work}

Some problems experts hope AI can help with may be outside AI's capacities. Some people may simply want to believe doctored images and deepfakes, for example.

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

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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.

Have Millennials broken up with America’s car culture?

_{They are less likely to have licenses; they prefer ride-sharing, says auto data analyst} _{Denyse O'Leary

October 25, 2019

3

Global Technology}

“People envision a future delivering mobility as a service,” Bryan Mistele of INRIX told the COSM Technology Summit, contrasting the Millennials’ approach with that of earlier generations who tended, at the same age, to see driving as a form of freedom.

Self-driving cars hit an unnoticed pothole

_{Denyse O'Leary

July 12, 2018

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Applied Intelligence}

Brandom at The Verge fears that self-driving cars might be hitting an “AI roadblock.” On its face, full autonomy seems closer than ever. Waymo is already testing cars on limited-but-public roads in Arizona. Tesla and a host of other imitators already sell a limited form of Autopilot, counting on drivers to intervene if anything unexpected happens. There have been a few crashes, some deadly, but as long as the systems keep improving, the logic goes, we can’t be that far from not having to intervene at all. “Not having to intervene at all”? One is reminded of the fellow in C. S. Lewis’s anecdote who, when he heard that a more modern stove would cut his fuel bill in half, Read More ›