http://SmartDrivingCar.com/7.23-SpecialEdDispatcher-052819
23rd edition of the 7th
year of SmartDrivingCars
F. Fishkin, May 18,, "From the 3rd Annual Princeton Smart Driving Car Summit, join Professor Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin. In this special edition, the summit's focus on mobility for all with guests Anil Lewis, Executive Director of Blindness Initiatives at the National Federation of the Blind and ITN America Founder Katherine Freund."
April 26, F. Fishkin,
"GM's
Cruise gets ready to take on
Google's Waymo and its new
partnership Lyft. Meanwhile
Uber's IPO stalls and Tesla
restructures its autopilot team.
Join Princeton's Alain
Kornhauser and co-host Fred
Fishkin for that and more on the
coming week's Smart Driving Car
Summit."
April 26, F. Fishkin, "VW unveils an Inclusive Mobility Initiative to help make future transportation better for all...a major theme of the upcoming Smart Driving Car Summit at Princeton. The University's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin tackle that...plus the latest of Uber, Tesla and more in Episode 102 of the Smart Driving Cars podcast!"
April 5, F. Fishkin, "The success of on demand transit company Via is proving that ride sharing systems can work. Public Policy head Andrei Greenawalt joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin for a wide ranging discussion. Also: Uber, Tesla, Audi, Apple and Nuro are making headlines"
April 5, F. Fishkin, "Here comes congestion pricing in New York City...but what will it mean? Former city Taxi and Limousine Commission head and transportation expert Matthew Daus joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin. Also...Tesla, VW and even Brexit! All on Episode 98 of Smart Driving Cars."
March 28, F. Fishkin, "The Future Networked Car? From Sweden, The Dispatcher publisher, Michael Sena, joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin for the latest edition of Smart Driving Cars. Plus ...the Boeing story has much to do with autonomous vehicles and more. Tune in and subscribe."
F. Fishkin, Sept 6, "The coming new world of driverless cars! In Episode 55 of the Smart Driving Cars podcast former GM VP and adviser to Waymo Larry Burns chats with Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and Fred Fishkin about his new book "Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car and How it Will Reshape Our World"
P. Loeb, May 16,
"...Sponsor Cherelle Parker
says the cameras will
photograph any car going more
than 11 miles per hour over
the speed limit..." Read
more Hmmmm...
I really don't
understand. What is the
meaning of the word limit
? (Hint.... "the
utmost extent")
So for
humans a "speed" limit is
actually a "Speed +10"
limit. That mean I can
set my Cruise Control to
"Speed Limit" +10 and I'll
be just fine. Does that
also mean that I can code
my driverless car "to do
+10"??? If not, then why
does a person capable of
getting a driver's license
get to go faster than a
person who can't get a
driver's license who is
relegated to be driven by
an autonomousTaxi (aTaxi)
that is mandated to drive
at a slower speed????
(Please don't tell me it
is because the accuracy of
the speed sensor is not
precise (aka reliable
enough). May I use that
excuse in my aTaxi code?)
This is a serious
question! There needs to
be a level regulatory
(rules of the road/traffic
laws) playing field
established for aTaxis and
human drivers. This is NOT
easy (but it could be as
simple as:
SpeedLimit(aTaxi) = SpeedLimit (Humans) + 10
StopSign(aTaxi)
= SropSign(Humans)
+RollOnThrough if no one
is around
RedLight(aTaxi) = Redlight(Humans) + 3 more cars after the yellow, except in Boston where 5 more car after the yellow... Alain
A. Krok, May 2, "You can't please
all the people all the time, but
Volkswagen wants to make sure that
when it moves into the next era of
mobility, it won't leave any
groups behind.
Volkswagen this week unveiled its
Inclusive
Mobility Initiative, which
sees the automaker working
directly with outside groups to
ensure that its future vehicles
are capable of catering to people
with disabilities..." Read more
Hmmmm...This
is fantastic and may well be
in line with the focus we've
taken with the upcoming 3rd Annual
Princeton SmartDrivingCar
Summit 10
days from now. Our focus is
on all people who have
been marginalized by the
unnecessary/non-inclusive/exclusive
designs of our current forms
of mobility, . These designs
are especially irresponsible
when one no longer needs a
person to drive... to keep the
car from crashing while on its
way from where people are to
where the want to go. What
an enormous opportunity to be
of service to so many that for
what ever reason don't want or
can't perform that task. Yes,
there are situations in which
a professional is required.
At times, we all need we all
need that the help of a
professional. But for all of
those situations in which a
professional is not needed, we
have an enormous opportunity
to be so much more inclusive
by removing the other
unnecessary exclusivities
that have consciously or
unconsciously crept into our
cars and transit systems. Our
mobility systems no longer
need to be big and hold many
people to make them
affordable, no driver needs to
be paid. They no longer need
to be constrained to only go
between the few places than
many want to go between at
only certain times. They can
readily serve where only a
few, even one, want to go
between at whatever time. The
skill set needed to use and be
served diminishes to the skill
set needed by the easiest to
use elevator. And so on...
T. Lee. April 24, "There's an old joke in the software engineering world, sometimes attributed to Tom Cargill of Bell Labs: "the first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time."...
You can think of self-driving
car development as occurring in
two stages. Stage one is focused
on developing a static
understanding of the world.
Where is the road? Where are
other cars? Are there any
pedestrians or bicycles nearby?
What are the traffic laws in
this particular area?
Once software has mastered this
part of the self-driving task,
it should be able to drive
flawlessly between any two
points on empty roads—and it
should mostly be able to avoid
running into things even on
crowded roads. This is the level
of autonomy Musk has dubbed
"feature complete." Waymo
achieved this level of autonomy
around 2015, while Tesla is
aiming to reach it later this
year....
In this second stage, a company also needs to handle a "long tail" of increasingly unusual situations: ...Waymo has spent the last three years in the second stage...
Tesla says that's a 21-fold
improvement over the Nvidia
chips the company was using
before. Of course, Nvidia has
produced newer chips since 2016,
but Tesla says that its chips
are more powerful than even
Nvidia's current Drive Xavier
chip—144 TOPS compared to 21
TOPS.
But Nvidia argues that's not a
fair comparison. The company
says its Xavier chip delivers 30
TOPS, not 21. More importantly,
Nvidia says it typically
packages the Xavier on a chip
with a powerful GPU chip,
yielding 160 TOPS of computing
power. And like Tesla, Nvidia
packages these systems in pairs
for redundancy, producing an
overall system with 320 TOPS of
computing power.... Regardless,
both companies are working on
next-generation designs, so any
advantage either company
achieves is likely to be
fleeting....", Read
more Hmmmm... An
absolute MUST read. Alain
M. Daus, Esq, April 1, "Over the weekend, the New York State legislature agreed to pass congestion pricing legislation as part of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s budget bill for FY 2020. The legislation was finalized in the early hours today, and the Governor is expected to sign the bill into law immediately. The toll is intended to reduce traffic congestion while raising $15 billion between 2020 and 2024 to fix NYC subways and commuter rails. Starting no sooner than December 31, 2020, motorists will be charged a toll to drive into Manhattan south of 60th street, excluding the FDR Drive and the West Side highway....
Only two categories of vehicles are specifically exempt from the law: emergency vehicles and qualifying vehicles transporting a person with disabilities. The law does not specify what qualifies as a “vehicle transporting a person with disability,” leaving any such determinations to the TBTA. A recent Bloomberg article discusses exemptions for people with disabilities (click here to review full article)..." Read more Hmmmm... Congratulations NYC!!! I've never understood why this isn't called "Value Pricing". Was it the SAE??? or is it just that I don't seem to ever like the semantics used by others? This has been a long time coming and is a tribute to William Vickery, the Canadian-born Columbia University Professor of Economics and Nobel Laureate who tragically passed away shortly after being announced as the winner of the 1996 award in Economics. AlainA. Kornhauser, March 13, "The following testimony was provided to the New Jersey State Assembly’s Transportation and Independent Authorities Committee on Monday, March 11....
What we need, what my ask is, that we create in New Jersey a “welcoming environment” for the research, testing and demonstration of this technology and work to focusing it on improving the mobility of the mobility disadvantaged...
While such a demonstration is
not prohibited in New Jersey, it
is not permitted.
Consequently, this provides
excuses and hurdles to bringing
such mobility to our communities
and tarnishes any other
welcoming efforts aimed at
enabling New Jersey to lead
instead of follow in what may
well address the fundamental
objective of this hearing." Read
more Hmmmm....Seems
so simple. I
have found it
so incredibly
hard. Alain
Oct 16, Establishes
fully autonomous vehicle pilot
program A4573 Sponsors:
Zwicker (D16); Benson (D14)
Oct 16, Establishes
New
Jersey Advanced Autonomous
Vehicle Task Force AJR164
Sponsors: Benson (D14); Zwicker
(D16); Lampitt (D6)
May 24, "About
9:58 p.m., on Sunday, March 18,
2018, an Uber Technologies, Inc.
test vehicle, based on a
modified 2017 Volvo XC90 and
operating with a self-driving
system in computer control mode,
struck a pedestrian on
northbound Mill Avenue, in
Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona.
...The vehicle
was factory equipped with
several advanced driver
assistance functions by Volvo
Cars, the original manufacturer.
The systems included a collision
avoidance function with
automatic emergency
braking, known as City Safety,
as well as functions for
detecting driver alertness and
road sign information. All these
Volvo functions are disabled
when the test vehicle is
operated in computer control..." Read
more Hmmmm....
Uber must believe that
its systems are better
at avoiding Collisions
and Automated Emergency
Braking than Volvo's.
At least this gets Volvo
"off the hook".
"...According
to data obtained from the
self-driving system, the
system first registered
radar and LIDAR observations
of the pedestrian about 6
seconds before impact, when
the vehicle was traveling at
43 mph..." (=
63 feet/second) So
the system started
"seeing an obstacle
when it was 63 x 6 =
378 feet away...
more than a football
field, including end
zones!
"...As
the vehicle and pedestrian
paths converged, the
self-driving system software
classified the pedestrian as
an unknown object, as a
vehicle, and then as a
bicycle with varying
expectations of future
travel path..."
(NTSB:
Please tell us
precisely when
it classified
this "object' as
a vehicle
and be explicit
about the
expected "future
travel paths." Forget
the path, please just
tell us the precise
velocity vector that
Uber's system attached
to the "object", then
the "vehicle". Why
didn't the the Uber
system instruct the
Volvo to begin to slow
down (or speed up) to
avoid a collision? If
these paths (or velocity
vectors) were not
accurate, then why
weren't they accurate?
Why was the object
classified as a
"Vehicle" ??
When did it finally
classify the object as a
"bicycle"? Why
did it change
classifications? How
often was the
classification of this
object done. Please
divulge the time and the
outcome of each
classification of this
object.
In the tests that
Uber has done, how
often has the system
mis-classified an
object as a "pedestrian"when
the object was
actually an
overpass, or an
overhead sign or
overhead
branches/leaves
that the car
could safely
pass under, or
was nothing at
all??
(Basically, what
are the false
alarm
characteristics
of Uber's
Self-driving
sensor/software
system as a
function of
vehicle speed
and
time-of-day?)
"...At 1.3 seconds before impact, (impact speed was 39mph = 57.2 ft/sec) the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision" (1.3 x 57.2 = 74.4 ft. which is about equal to the braking distance. So it still could have stopped short.
"...According
to Uber,
emergency
braking
maneuvers are not
enabled while
the vehicle is
under computer
control, to
reduce (eradicate??)
the potential
for erratic
vehicle
behavior.
..." NTSB: Please describe/define potential and erratic vehicle
behavior Also
please uncover
and divulge
the design
& decision
process that
Uber went
through to
decide that
this risk
(disabling the
AEB) was worth
the reward of
eradicating "
"erratic vehicle behavior". This
is
fundamentally
BAD design.
If the Uber
system's false
alarm rate is
so large that
the best way
to deal with
false alarms
is to turn off
the AEB, then
the system
should never
have been
permitted on
public
roadways.
"...The vehicle operator
is relied on
to intervene
and take
action. " Wow! If Uber's
system
fundamentally
relies on a
human to
intervene,
then Uber is
nowhere near
creating a
Driverless
vehicle.
Without its
own Driverless
vehicle Uber
is past "Peak
valuation".
Video similar to part of Adam's Luncheon talk @ 2015 Florida Automated Vehicle Symposium on Dec 1. Hmmm ... Watch Video especially at the 13:12 mark. Compelling; especially after the 60 Minutes segment above! Also see his TipRanks. Alain
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