Tuesday, May 28, 2019
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23rd edition of the 7th
year of SmartDrivingCars
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2019 Issue
M. Sena, May 22," In This Issue:Dispatch Central
Toyota backs off IEEE WAVE in U.S. ... More details on Toyota's evolving position on V2X communication standards....
Uber: A Fool’s Gold ... Yup!
FCA and Tesla: Strange bedfellows . ... I did not know that!...
Tesla’s fifteen minutes of European fame. ... March Model 3 sales in EU of 15k. If April is greater than 5k, fame may have legs....
A Road Trip Down Memory Lane ... Read with a smile....
A Dispatcher’s Musings: Here’s looking at you, kid ... Everything has a downside. I like to tell my students that one of the things that the human brain does very well if "forget". "Optimal Learning" needs some "Optimal Forgetting" where the objective function is Personal Privacy. Sure, observe all you want to give me short-term convenience/pleasure, but erase all the data before anyone can use it to hurt me, where both the convenience/pleasure and the hurt are from my perspective, not yours!!
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Driving Cars Podcast Episode
109
F. Fishkin, May 25, " Say what you mean and mean what you say. When it comes to traffic laws, that's the way autonomous vehicles see it. What about the rest of us?... asks Princeton's Alain Kornhauser. Tune in as he joins co-host Fred Fishkin on that issue, the future of Tesla, the USPS tests self driving trucks and more on GM's Cruise and Google's Waymo." Just say "Alexa, play the Smart Driving Cars podcast!" . Ditto with Siri, and GooglePlay ... Alain
Half-baked stuff that probably doesn't deserve your time
C'mon Man! (These folks didn't get/read the memo)
Simply Click Bait
Calendar of Upcoming Events:
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Recent PodCasts
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 108
3rd Summit Wrapup
F. Fishkin, May 18, "Wrapping up the 3rd annual Princeton Smart Driving Car Summit, Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin zero in on mobility for all and more. It's just getting started. Plus the headlines from Nissan, Tesla, Uber and Lyft. Tune in and subscribe!"
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 107
3rd Summit Leilei Shinohara
& Staff Sergeant Terence
McDonnell
F. Fishkin,
May 18, "In
this special edition from the 3rd
Annual Princeton Smart Driving Cars
Summit, Alain Kornhauser and co-host
Fred Fishkin are joined by RoboSense
VP Leilei Shinohara on the LiDAR's
benefits. And view of autonomous
technology from law enforcement with
New York State Police Staff Sergeant Terence McDonnell."
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 106
3rd Summit David Kidd &
Cecillia Feeley
F. Fishkin,
May 18, "From
the 3rd Annual Princeton Smart
Driving Car Summit, David Kidd
from the Highway Loss Data
Institute joins Alain Kornhauser
and co-host Fred Fishkin and then
on site preliminary research
results on mobility for all with
Cecilia Feeley and Andrea Lubin
from Rutgers."
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 105
3rd Summit John Eggert &
Kurtis Hodge
F. Fishkin,
May 18, "At the
third annual Princeton Smart
Driving Car Summit, Velodyne execs
John Eggert and Vidya Devarasetty
outline the latest, lower cost
LiDAR. And co-hosts Alain
Kornhauser and Fred Fishkin hop
aboard the autonomous Olli for
more with Local Motors Economist
Kurtis Hodge."
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 104
3rd Summit Anil Lewis &
Katherine Freund
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."
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 103
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."
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 102
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!"
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 100
- Andrei Greenawalt'99/Via
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"
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 98-
Matt Daus
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."
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 97
- Michael Sena'69
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."
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 82 -
Intel,
Sciarappo & Jitsik, Loeb
F. Fishkin, Jan.
9, "One of the top chip makers in
the world and a start up. Intel's
strategic marketing director for
autonomous driving Jill Sciarappo
and the founder of Jitsik, Dr. Helen
Loeb join co-hosts Alain Kornhauser
of Princeton University and Fred
Fishkin for Episode 82 of the Smart
Driving Cars podcast from CES."
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 81 -
nVIDIA,
Shapiro & Local Motors /
Olli, Hodge
F. Fishkin, Jan.
9, "How NVIDIA is paving the way
for self driving cars and a new OLLI
automated transport from Local
Motors. NVIDIA's Senior Director for
Automotive, Danny Shapiro and Kurtis
Hodge of Local Motors join co-hosts
Alain Kornhauser of Princeton
University and Fred Fishkin for
another edition of Smart Driving
Cars from CES 2019.."
Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 75 - PAVE; Nantel, Erlich, Riccobono
F. Fishkin, Jan. 9, "From CES in Las Vegas, a new industry organization, PAVE, is formed. Partners for Automated Vehicle Education. And some founding members join co-hosts Alain Kornhauser of Princeton University and Fred Fishkin for an on site discussion. Guests include National Safety Council VP Kelly Nantel, Voyage VP Justin Erlich and National Federation of the Blind President Mark Riccobono."
Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 71-Nader'55
F. Fishkin, Dec. 13, "When it comes to self driving cars, Ralph Nader says "Not so fast." The renowned political activist and author takes the government and the industry to task in a super sized Episode 71 of the Smart Driving Cars Podcast. Join Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin for that and more!"Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 69 - Chunka Mui
F. Fishkin, Nov 29, "What will it take for driverless vehicles to become a leading form of transportation? Futurist and author Chunka Mui joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin for Episode 69 of the Smart Driving Cars podcast. Plus...Waymo, GM, Amazon and more. Tune in and subscribe! "Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 68 - Dick Mudge
F. Fishkin, Nov 22, "The insurance industry hears about the outlook for automated vehicles. Co-author Dick Mudge joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin for Episode 68 of the Smart Driving Cars podcast. Plus...Uber, GM Cruise, Waymo, VW and more. Tune in and subscribe!"Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 66 - Bishop & Zimmerman
F. Fishkin, Nov 8, "Daimler is partnering with Bosch to bring an autonomous ride hailing service to San Jose next year. In this edition, the Director of Engineering at Bosch joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin to outline how it will work. Plus Richard Bishop joins us fresh from an International Task Force on Vehicle Highway Automation in Denmark. And more!"Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 65 - Bernard Soriano, CA DMV
F. Fishkin, Nov 1, "California gives Waymo the green light for fully driverless vehicle testing on public roads and the state's deputy director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, Bernard Soriano, joins the Smart Driving Cars podcast with the no nonsense details. Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin explore that and more. Tune in and subscribe!"Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 58-Keith Code, Motorcycles
F. Fishkin, Sept 22 "In this edition of the Smart Driving Cars Podcast, Alain Kornhauser of Princeton University and co-host Fred Fishkin are joined by the founder of the Superbike School, Keith Code. Keith is an instructor, coach, author and researcher into motorcycle safety...and a champion racer. Beyond that....he's an old high school friend of Alain's! And there's more on BMW, Apple, VW and more! . Tune in and subscribe!"Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 55-Larry Burns, Autonomy
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"
Recent
Highlights of:
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Saturday, May 25, 2019
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cameras are coming to
Philadelphia's deadliest
road
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
Saturday, May 18, 2019
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Smart Vehicles to Improve the
Human Condition
K. Pyle, May 17, "3.5 million and 5+
million deaths per year are a couple
of the statistics that stood out
from the 2+ day, 3rd annual
SmartDrivingCars Summit at
Princeton. There are approximately
3.5 million individuals in the
United States who never leave their
homes and approximately 1.9M of
those people have disabilities,
according to Robbie Diamond,
President & CEO of SAFE. He went
on to say that, “Transportation is
the biggest predictor of
inter-generational upward mobility.”His comments echoed the conference theme of improving mobility for all people, especially the mobility marginalized, to paraphrase Professor Alain Kornhauser. Kornhauser brought together participants from multiple disciplines and backgrounds to an event that is like no other. This year, he introduced a research element where there were a couple different opportunities to gauge the reactions of everyday people of varying abilities to various levels of autonomous vehicles...." Read more Hmmmm... Ken, thank you for such an excellent summary and all of the help. Alain
Sunday, May 12, 2019
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car company Cruise raises
$1.15bn
S. Bond, May 7, "Cruise, the
self-driving division of General
Motors, has landed a fresh
$1.15bn in funding, boosting its
valuation to $19bn including the
new funds and giving it
additional firepower to launch a
planned robo-taxi service this
year.The investment came from T Rowe Price, the mutual fund manager, as well as existing Cruise investors SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Honda and GM, the carmaker said in a statement. Including the latest round, Cruise has raised $7.25bn in equity in the past year, following previous injections from Honda and SoftBank.
.. " Read more Hmmmm... Refer back to Inside SoftBank's push to rule the road . What if SoftBank added Tesla to this chart. That really creates a 2-person race with Waymo. Duopolies aren't bad. Alain
Sunday, May 5, 2019
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Inclusive Mobility aims to make
sure tech takes care of everyone
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...
Friday, May 3, 2019
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autonomy event: Impressive
progress with an unrealistic
timeline
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
Friday, April 5, 2019
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Pricing Plan for NYC is Coming!
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. AlainFriday, March 29, 2019
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Lessons From Uber's Fatal
Self-Driving Car Crash
Hmmmm....
New Jersey is
now started.
Hooray!! AlainSunday, March 17, 2019
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alt="" class="" width="116"
height="32">Automated
vehicles could provide
mobility to the ‘mobility
disadvantaged’
A. 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
Friday,
March 1, 2019
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S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Lyft, Inc.
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Vehicles
Feb 25, " This workshop brought
together experts in cyber-physical
systems, machine learning,
transportation engineering, and
applied mathematics, both from
academia and from industry, to
help bridge the technical gaps and
to facilitate exchange and
collaboration across disciplinary
boundaries..." Read more
Hmmmm.... Slides
and videos of
the
presentations
are available
here. In
particular,
see..:
- Andrea Censi: "Liability, Ethics, and Culture-Aware Behavior Specification using Rulebooks" Abstract, Slides, video (via click on Schedule 11:30 Monday;
- Adam Oberman:"Generalization and adversarial robustness of Regularized Deep Neural Networks " Abstract, Slides, video (via click on Schedule 11:30 Tuesday);
- Alain Kornhauser: "Market Forces and Market Potential for SmartDrivingCars (aka Autonomous Vehicles) " Slides, video, (via click on Schedule 11:15 Tuesday);
- Hani Mahmassani: "Shared Autonomous Fleet Services and Multimodal Urban Mobility: Optimization, Prediction and Dynamic Network Modeling " Abstract, video, (via click on Schedule 4:00 Thursday);
Friday,
February 15, 2019
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opposition, Amazon scraps New
York HQ2 plans
T. Lee, Feb. 14, "Amazon is
canceling its controversial plan
to build a new corporate campus in
the Long Island City neighborhood
of Queens. The plan, which
included almost $3 billion in
subsidies and tax breaks, provoked
a grassroots backlash... " Read more
Hmmmm....
An example of
what happens
when the
"Welcome Mat'
fails to
include on one
side...the
grass roots...
those who were
supposed to be
direct
beneficiaries
(those who
were supposed
to get the
jobs) and
those whose
"back yards"
were to be
disrupted.
And on the
other side
... those
being welcomed
failed to
"wipe their
feet" by
extracting too
many
incentives and
failing to be
respective of
local values.
Friday,
January 25, 2019
Thursday,
November 22, 2018
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Framework and Outlook for
Automated Vehicle Systems
R. Mudge, A. Kornhauser, M.
Hardison, Nov, 2018 "The
surface transportation industry is
in the early stages of a series of
profound changes, stimulated by
the development of increasingly
sophisticated driving safety and
automation technologies.
Considerable uncertainty exists
regarding the speed with which
these changes will take place and
the nature of their impacts on
safety, the overall demand for
travel, vehicle sales, and vehicle
ownership. This report does not
attempt to forecast the pace of
these changes, instead advancing a
list of “trigger points” that
might serve as leading indicators
of change....What might these changes mean for actuaries and the insurance industry? Since Driverless vehicles will most likely be available only to fleet operators and not the general public, their actuarial and insurance implication will differ substantially from the implications of Safe and Self technologies that will be on vehicles purchased by consumers. But, will these vehicles continue to be insured in the same way as personal vehicles are today or will this practice change in some way. For example, if the burden of
liability shifts to the technology rather than the driver, then should actuaries focus on product liability rather than personal liability? To what extent does technology rather than personal behavior or demographics become the important link to liability? " Read more Hmmmm.... This is a very good report. Listen to SmartDrivingCar Podcast 68 with Dick Mudge. (Of course, I'm biased. ) Alain
Thursday,
November 1, 2018
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Light for Waymo’s Driverless
Testing in California
Wednesday,
October 24, 2018
New Jersey Pending Legislation re: Autonomous Vehicles
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)
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of Alain Kornhauser, Assembly
Science, Innovation and
Technology - Monday, October 22,
2018 - 10:00:00 AM
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Recording of Assembly Science,
Innovation and Technology -
Monday, October 22, 2018 -
10:00:00 AM
Friday, June 15, 2018
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
CPUC AUTHORIZES PASSENGER CARRIERS TO PROVIDE FREE TEST RIDES IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WITH VALID CPUC AND DMV PERMITS
Sunday, June 3, 2018
Waymo’s
fleet of self-driving minivans
is about to get 100 times bigger
Friday, May 25, 2018
PRELIMINARY REPORT: HIGHWAY: HWY18MH010 (Uber/Herzberg Crash)
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".
Thursday, April 26, 2018
This startup’s CEO wants to open-source self-driving car safety testing
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Experts say video of Uber's self-driving car killing a pedestrian suggests its technology may have fail
Tuesday, April 17, 2017
Don't Worry, Driverless Cars Are Learning From Grand Theft Auto
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