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height="21"> Two-way
Vehicle Connectivity is a
Three-sided Coin That
Everyone Wants to Own
M. Sena, May 26,
"Two-way vehicle connectivity
has three facets. Two of them
are mainly of interest to
vehicle OEMs and their
suppliers. They are
vehicle-centric and
customer-centric.
Vehicle-centric connectivity
includes functions such
emergency notification,
logistics tracking and
over-the-air updating.
Customer centric connectivity
includes many services that
are also provided by mobile
apps outside of the vehicle,
such as music streaming,
workshop service booking,
traffic notifications and car
sharing applications. Two-way
vehicle connectivity today is
a major competitive factor for
the OEMs.
The third vehicle connectivity facet is principally of interest to public sector traffic management authorities. It is focused on communicating warnings to vehicles and providing guidance on which roads to use in case of traffic congestion or emergencies. The public authorities view these roadway-centric functions as their domain, and vehicle-to-infrastructure and vehicle-to-vehicle communication as the tools to accomplish the job. They are grouped together under the term V2X. This third facet is not a competitive factor for the OEMs. If it is legislated, V2X will not distinguish one OEM from another since every OEM will have to include it....
But the debate
is not really about technology
nor is it about who delivers
the best value for the money
or the most privacy. It is
about..." Read
more
Hmmmm...
The provacateur's lead
at the beginning of our
3rd Shark-Tank Zoom-inar
(Video,
Audio)
Alain
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Kockelman
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support from the Smart
Transportation and
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Zoom-inar 003 Everyone's
for Connectivity; but...
F. Fishkin, June 2, "But
the debate is not really
about technology nor is it
about who delivers the best
value for the money or the
most privacy. It is about
..."
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alt="" class="" width="38"
height="30"> Self-driving
vehicles could struggle to
eliminate most crashes
“It’s likely that fully self-driving cars will eventually identify hazards better than people, but we found that this alone would not prevent the bulk of crashes,” says Jessica Cicchino, IIHS vice president for research and a coauthor of the study.
Conventional thinking has it that self-driving vehicles could one day make crashes a thing of the past. The reality is not that simple. According to a national survey of police-reported crashes, driver error is the final failure in the chain of events leading to more than 9 out of 10 crashes.
But the Institute’s analysis suggests that only about a third of those crashes were the result of mistakes that automated vehicles would be expected to avoid simply because they have more accurate perception than human drivers and aren’t vulnerable to incapacitation. To avoid the other two-thirds, they would need to be specifically programmed to prioritize safety over speed and convenience..." Read more Hmmm... This is NOT good news. My perception has been that "9 out of 10 crashes" involved human mis-behavior. The real value of automation is its near elimination of "mis-behavior"; NOT that it be technically better than people when they are not mis-behaving.
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alt="" class=""> What
Volkswagen’s Investment in
Argo AI Means for Ford’s
Self-Driving Vehicle
Business
John Lawler, Jun 2, "Last
July, Ford and Volkswagen
announced a collaboration
with Argo AI to introduce
autonomous vehicle
technology in the U.S. and
Europe. As part of this
collaboration, Volkswagen
would join Ford in investing
in Argo AI. Working together
with Argo AI positions both
Ford and Volkswagen to
better serve our future
customers while improving
cost and capital
efficiencies. While the
uncertainty of today’s
business environment has
created challenges for
partnerships and investments
in the self-driving space,
this collaboration remains
on track and will be a
positive development for
everyone involved. As a
result, Volkswagen’s
investment in Argo AI was
finalized June 1.
In my previous role as vice
president of Ford corporate
strategy, I can tell you
firsthand the moment our
teams started talking, all
three parties could see the
value of working together.
Here’s what we saw and why
we believe it works for
everyone involved —
including our future
customers...." Read
more
Hmmm...
The right partneship
for the right reasons
that now has gone
through any reglatory
hurdles and can
proceed in high gear.
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height="23"> Tesla
In Taiwan Crashes Directly
Into Overturned Truck,
Ignores Pedestrian, With
Autopilot On
B. Templeton, June 2, "Video
from Taiwan reveals a
disturbing Tesla TSLA crash,
where the vehicle plows
directly into the top of a
large truck lying on its side,
straddling two lanes of a
freeway. The driver states the
vehicle was in Autopilot mode.
The driver did not hit the
brakes himself until far too
late, indicating he was
probably not paying attention.
The road has light traffic and
visibility is very good.
Nobody was injured. The video
shows the event from several
angles, and raises several
questions:..." Read
more
Hmmm...
See
video. Working
backwards from Brad's 5
questions. I agree with
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alt="" class=""> Uber’s
Ex-CTO Reflects on a Rift
With Travis Kalanick and
How to Fix Autonomous Cars
L. Chapman, June 2, "... In his first interview since stepping down, Pham described “battle scars” from his time at Uber. He said his decision to stay at the company after Kalanick’s exit drove a wedge between them that remains to this day. Pham, 52, now walks away from Uber with concern over the company’s autonomous-driving strategy....
In a video call from his home in San Jose, California, Pham said he’s relieved to no longer be responsible for the technology that powered some 18 million trips a day before the pandemic. “It is a very heavy burden,” he said. “I have a little PTSD setting in right now.”...
One area he doesn’t support is the autonomous-vehicle division. Pham urged Khosrowshahi to abandon the effort and instead team up with other companies whose projects are more advanced. He likens his proposal to the strategy Google pursued with Android by teaming up with hardware makers to counter Apple Inc. in phones. In self-driving cars, it’s the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Waymo that’s the one to beat. “Individually, none of the companies can go it alone and compete with Waymo,” Pham said..." Read more Hmmmm... Pham is likely right. But he needs both a technology company and an auto OEM that isn't alread in it themselves (because those that are can readily do the Uber part.) How about Voyage/Chrysler or Aurora/Hyundai? Watch video. Alain
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Tesla
announces massive
Supercharger expansion in
China to support growth
F. Lambert, June 3, "Tesla
announced plans to install
4,000 Superchargers in China
this year alone in order to
support its growth in the
market. Over the last five
years, Tesla has deployed over
2,500 Supercharger stalls in
over 150 cities in China.At their Shanghai office last week, the automaker announced its plan to deploy 4,000 Superchargers in the country in 2020 alone. This is a massive acceleration of Supercharger deployment for Tesla in China.... " Read more Hmmmm... If you're going to do it, this is the way to do it. Why does it seem to be so easy to do over there? I guess I know the reason. I've always prefered hard over easy. Hard does have advantages. Alain
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alt="" width="77"
height="31"> National
Safety Council Applauds
Transportation
Reauthorization Bill
Press release, June 3, "The National Safety Council applauds House lawmakers for the INVEST in America Act, the reauthorization of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. For too long, the United States has consistently avoided the hard choices needed to save lives on the roadways. This proposal is an opportunity for us to start making the right choices so we can save lives, because we know that all traffic deaths are preventable.
In the Transportation and
Infrastructure Committee in
April 2019, NSC called for
the House to double down on
what works, accelerate
technology and embrace a
culture of safety that
mitigates common roadway
risks and accounts for
driver error and promotes
safe systems..." Read
more Hmmmm... Is
it driver "error" or
driver "misbehavior"
that needs to be
addressed. Speeding,
under the influence,
textng, not paying
attention, ... are
misbehaviors, not
errors. Alain
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alt="" class=""> SoftBank
led $500M investment in
Didi in China’s biggest
autonomous driving round
R. Liao, May 29, "The race to
automate vehicles on China’s
roads is heating up. Didi, the
Uber of China, announced on
Friday an outsized investment
of over $500 million in its
freshly minted autonomous
driving subsidiary. Leading
the round — the single largest
fundraising round in China’s
autonomous driving sector — is
its existing investor
Softbank, the Japanese telecom
giant and startup benefactor
that has also backed Uber.The proceeds came through SoftBank’s second Vision Fund, which was reportedly lagging in fundraising as its Fund I recorded massive losses in part due to the collapsing valuation of WeWork.
As China’s largest ride-hailing provider with mountains of traffic data, Didi clearly has an upper hand in developing robotaxis, which could help address driver shortages in the long term. But it was relatively late to the field. In 2018, Didi ranked eighth in kilometers of autonomous driving tests carried out in Beijing, far behind search giant Baidu, which accounted for over 90% of the total mileage that year.... " Read more Hmmmm... In case anyone thought differently, it looks like SoftBank and DiDi are still in it and "doubling down" . When does DiDi team with a Chinese automobile OEM? Or is everyone already on one team in China? Alain
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alt="" class=""> AutonomouStuff
May News
Staff, May 28, "In this
issue: Safety Q&A with
Hexagon A&P's functional
safety expert and Upcoming
webinar: Integration of
Functional Safety and
Cybersecurity..." Read
more
Hmmmm...
Bobby... Keep up the
good work! All the
best. Alain
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height="22"> Torc
Robotics continues growth,
recruiting during pandemic
Press release, May 28,
"Torc Robotics, a leader in
self-driving vehicle
systems, continues its
strong recruiting efforts
even under social distancing
and safer-at-home orders.
Torc has steadily added new
employees since January and
plans to increase the
company size by more than 50
percent before year end.
Torc’s recruiting process
has changed to accommodate
personal safety during the
pandemic. “We are very
fortunate that most of us
can work from home – and our
team has been using this
time to scale up our virtual
testing and future fleet
infrastructure,” said
Michael Fleming, Torc’s CEO.
“Over the past 10 years,
we’ve built our culture on
winning teams and find that
Torc’rs are great at solving
problems – including
bringing on new team members
during a pandemic,” he said.
..." Read
more
Hmmm...
Congratulations
Michael. Keep up the
great work! All the
best. Alain
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Electric
truck maker Nikola looks
like Tesla 2.0 — except
even riskier
R. Mitchell, June 2, "It’s
a week before Nikola, the
electric truck start-up,
debuts its shares on the
public market. Time to spin
up the hype machine. For
some reason its founder and
chief executive, Trevor
Milton, wants to talk about
how much he loves Tesla.
You’d think he’d count Tesla
as a rival, if not an enemy.
Each aims to capture the
market for long-haul diesel
trucks. Each seeks to claim
the mantle of brilliant
inventor Nikola Tesla, who
helped bring electricity to
the masses by championing
alternating current
technology. Whenever the
subject comes up, Tesla
Chief Executive Elon Musk
dumps on Nikola’s core
technology, electric fuel
cells, deemed by Musk as
irredeemably inferior to
Tesla’s own lithium ion
battery power systems. “Fool
cells,” he calls them...."
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more
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Very interesting.
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alt="" class="" width="55"
height="32"> Locus
Robotics raises $40
million to take its
warehouse robots
global
K. Wiggers, June 2,
"Warehouse robotics startup
Locus Robotics today
announced it has raised $40
million, the bulk of which
will be put toward
accelerating R&D and the
company’s expansion into new
markets, including in the
EU, where it opened a new
headquarters. CEO Rich Faulk
says Locus also intends to
launch strategic reseller
partnerships throughout
2020, following a year in
which its number of customer
deployments passed 50.
Worker shortages
attributable to the pandemic
have accelerated the
adoption of automation.
According to ABI Research,
more than 4 million
commercial robots will be
installed in over 50,000
warehouses around the world
by 2025, up from under 4,000
warehouses as of 2018. In
China, Oxford Economics
anticipates 12.5 million
manufacturing jobs will
become automated, while in
the U.S., McKinsey projects
machines will take upwards
of 30% of such jobs... " Read
more
Hmmmm.... It is
nice to be in the
controlled environment
of a warehouse.
Almost everything is
deterministic, but it
is still nor easy.
Alain
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height="32"> Otto
Motors raises $29
million to staff
warehouses with
autonomous mobile
robots
K. Wiggers, June 1, "Otto
Motors, a company providing
self-driving robot
technology and services for
research and industrial
clients, this week announced
it closed a $29 million
financing round. Matthew
Rendall, CEO of Otto parent
company Clearpath Robotics,
says the proceeds will
enable the company to meet
the needs of its customers
both during and after the
pandemic.
Worker shortages caused by
the spread of coronavirus
have prompted some retailer,
fulfillment, and logistics
companies to accelerate the
rollout of mobile robots.
For instance, Gap more than
tripled the number of
item-picking machines it
uses to 106 in total, while
Amazon says it’s relying
more heavily on automation
for product sorting.
According to ABI Research,
more than 4 million
commercial robots will be
installed in over 50,000
warehouses around the world
by 2025, up from just under
4,000 warehouses in 2018....
" Read
more
Hmmmm.... Ditto.
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alt="" class=""> Waymo’s
robot minivans are ready
to roll in the Bay Area
for the first time since
COVID-19 outbreak
A. Hawkins, May 30,
"Waymo’s self-driving cars
are returning to Bay Area
roads for the first time
since the company halted its
public testing in early
March because of the
coronavirus outbreak. The
Alphabet-owned company plans
to return its fleet of
autonomous minivans to
service starting June 8th,
according to an email
obtained by The Verge.
Waymo’s self-driving cars
will be put to use
delivering packages for two
Bay Area non-profits: illustrator
Wendy McNaughton’s
#DrawTogether, which
provides art kits to Bay
Area kids; and Lighthouse
for the Blind and Visually
Impaired.
The company is the latest
autonomous vehicle operator
to discover that doing
deliveries allows it to
sidestep restrictions
that would otherwise require
them to keep their
autonomous vehicles off the
road. Waymo, along with the
rest of California’s AV
companies, paused
on-road testing in
mid-March after the
city issued a
“shelter-in-place” order
banning all nonessential
travel. That order does not
have a set end date..... ".
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Tesla
going into software
subscription service could
become big business
F. Lambert, May 28, "Tesla has
started to indicate that it is
going to expand its software
offering, including a
subscription to its full
self-driving package, and
analysts are starting to
consider this new revenue
stream as a massive
opportunity.Over the last year, Tesla has made several moves to start generating revenue from software. The automaker started charging $10 a month for its ‘premium connectivity’ features..... " Read more Hmmmm... Very interesting. Look at what happened to Msft once it did this with Office. Brilliant for everyone. Keep the improvements coming and I'll continue to not be able to live without it. Plus, it's so cheap, to start, get hooked and continue to ante up. Brilliant! Alain
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2021
is going to be the year
for electric revolution –
10 new EVs coming next
year
F. Lambert, June 2, "2021 is
going to be the year for
all-electric cars and should
greatly accelerate the
electric revolution. There are
so many new models hitting the
market that it should shift
the entire industry.Here we look at 10 new electric vehicles coming next year: First off, it is going to be the year for the electric pickup truck.
Several electric pickup trucks are scheduled to hit the market in 2021 and it’s the first time that this highly important segment in North America is going to get all-electric options. To be fair, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these vehicle programs slip to 2022, but for now, they are scheduled for 2021...... " Read more Hmmmm... The substantial latent/pent-up demand out there post-COVID-19 should really help this segment. Alain
C'mon Man! (These folks didn't get/read the memo)
Sunday Supplement
Half-Baked
Click-Bait
Calendar of Upcoming Events:s
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SmartDrivingCars Pod-Cast
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Episode 158
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Episode 157, Zoom-Cast
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SmartDrivingCars Zoom-inar 002
The
Future of Public Roadway
Transit
- Zoom-inar Video (Video replay) Smart Driving Cars: The Future of Public Roadway Transit
- PodCast (Audio Only) Smart Driving Cars: The Future of Public Roadway Transit
SmartDrivingCars Pod-Cast Episode 156, Cars Zoom-Cast Episode 156 w/Danny Shapiro2
SmartDrivingCars Pod-Cast Episode 155, Zoom-Cast Episode 155 w/Alex Roy2
SmartDrivingCars Pod-Cast Episode 154, Zoom-Cast Episode 154 w/Dan Sperling
SmartDrivingCars
Zoom-inar 001 The Driverless
New Normal Debate
- Zoom Video
- SmartDrivingCar
PodCast (Audio Only) Smart
Driving Cars: The
Driverless New Normal
Debate
- Zoom Audience Questions (Only a few were addressed in Zoom-inar)
- Zoom
Audience Comments
- YouTube Video
SmartDrivingCars Pod-Cast Episode 153, Zoom-Cast Episode 153 w/Dick Mudge2
SmartDrivingCars Pod-Cast Episode 152, Zoom-Cast Episode 152 w/Brad Templeton
SmartDrivingCars Pod-Cast Episode 151, Zoom-Cast Episode 151 w/Joe Moye
SmartDrivingCars Podcast Episode 150 - Andrei Greenawalt
Video version... Watch episode 150 with Andrei Greenawalt
SmartDriving
CarsPodcast Episode 149 - Matt
Daus
Video version... Watch episode 149 with Matt Daus.... Alain
SmartDrivingCars
Podcast Episode 148 - Richard
Bishop
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Zoom-Cast Episode 148 -
Richard Bishop
Video version... Watch our first attempt.... Alain
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 147
- Michael Sena
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 142
- J. Hughes
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
141- A. Roy
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 140
- C. Mericli
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
139- Randal O'Toole
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
138-Nick Zart
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 136
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 135
- with Jim Atkinson
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 130
with Dick Mudge & Michael
Sena
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
126 - Sturges & Caudill
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
121 - Ken Pyle
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
116 - Jerome Lutin
F.
Fishkin, July 20,
"Can technology dramatically
improve the safety of bus
transportation for pedestrians,
riders and drivers? The lead
investigator in a national
study, Jerry Lutin, joins
Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and
co-host Fred Fishkin on episode
116 of the Smart Driving Cars
Podcast. Plus...Tesla's new
safety report, the latest from
Lyft, Aptiv and a NY Times
report on why driverless cars
are taking longer than expected.
Tune in and subscribe!."Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
112 - J. Hardiman NJM
F.
Fishkin, June 9,
"Should the insurance industry
be pushing more safety and
autonomous tech in cars? It's a
win, win says Princeton's Alain
Kornhauser. Joining him in the
discussion along with co-host
Fred Fishkin is NJM's John
Hardiman, a board member of the
Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety. Also...Fiat Chrysler,
Ford and more."
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
110 - Lance Elliot
F.
Fishkin, May 25,
" The untold
secrets of driverless car videos.
Dr. Lance Eliot joins Princeton's
Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred
Fishkin for a liveley discussion.
Plus...Waymo brings back self
driving trucks, so will Daimler
and is the future driverless for
Uber and Lyft. Tune in and
subscribe!"
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
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
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
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 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 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 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
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Thursday, May 28, 2020
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in Advanced
Talks to Buy
Self-Driving-Car
Tech Company
Zoox
C. Lombardo & T. Higgins, , May 26, "Amazon.com Inc. is in advanced talks to buy Zoox Inc. in a move that would expand the e-commerce giant’s reach in autonomous-vehicle technology. The companies are discussing a deal that would value Zoox at less than the $3.2B it achieved in a funding round in 2018..." Read more Hmmmm... This would be a real bargain for Amazon and bring on some real talent to focus on the algorithmic side of driverless delivery while leveraging Rivian on the vehicle side. See also Financial Times Alain
Thursday, May 21, 2020
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driving safer
transport
H.
Zhao, May 1,
"This edition
of ITU News
Magazine
discusses the
latest trends
in connected
cars, new
ITU
initiatives to
improve smart
transportation
— and key
insights from
the annual
Symposium
on the Future
Networked Car
(FNC‑2020), a
gathering of
top experts
hosted by ITU
and UNECE.
Participants
at the 5 March
event
discussed the
technical,
business and
regulatory
actions
required to
build public
trust in
connected,
automated
vehicles.
They
highlighted
the state of
the art in
automotive
cybersecurity.
Together, they
explored the
status
and future of
safety-critical radio‑ communications for the road, and they presented
the latest
developments
in the review
of regulations
governing road
transport.
FNC‑2020
participants
also had the
opportunity to
consider the
crucial role
of the latest
5G
connectivity
technologies
in delivering
safer and more
effective
transport.
Read on to
learn about
the experts’
insightful
discussions at
the event, how
ITU’s work is
supporting the
development of
Intelligent
Transport
Systems —
and what key
industry
players are
doing to
leverage the
power of ICTs
for better
transport." Read
more
Hmmmm...
This topic
will be at the
heart on the
next Zoom-Tank
Zoom-inar on
June 1 (or
June 15??)@
2PM. An
eloquent
summary of
this
topic/symposium
was presented
by Michael
Sena in his April
2020 edition
of The
Dispatcher.
Alain
Thursday, April 30, 2020
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Luminaries
Battle In
Lincoln-Douglas
Style Debate
About The
Future Of
Self-Driving
Cars
Lance
Eliot, April
28, "Several
self-driving
car luminaries
assembled
online via a
Zoom-casted
battleground
this week to
undertake a
Lincoln-Douglas
style debate
about the
future of the
Autonomous
Vehicle (AV)
self-driving
car industry
and the advent
of AI-driven
mobility.
Originally
scheduled for
one hour, the
dialogue and
fielding of
audience
questions
prompted the
superstars to
keep going,
tackling many
of the most
vexing and
unsolved
matters that
underlie the
potential
success of
self-driving
vehicles,
encompassing
both
autonomous
cars and
autonomous
trucks.
The lively
discussion was
civil and
polite,
fortunately so
in these times
of seemingly
stark
polarization
and guttural
attacks during
our
contemporary
public
discourse.
Yet, even in
the realm of
eloquent
argumentation,
at times the
gloves came
off and there
were some
fierce zingers
and moments of
rather
piercing
cut-the-air-with-a-knife
verbal
sparring..."
Read
more Hmmmm... Lance, Thank you for
the kind and
thorough
synopsis of
our 1st
Zoom-inar. We
were all
pleased by the
turnout,
interaction
and substance.
Alain
Friday,
April 24, 2020
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What
Negative Oil
Prices Mean
and How the
Impact Could
Last
V.
Bajaj, April
22,"A main
benchmark for
the price of
oil fell
negative for
the first time
ever this
week. The
decline —
more than 300
percent in
daily trading
— raised fresh
questions
about the
damage the
coronavirus is
having on the
global
economy.
What does it
mean for oil
prices to be
negative?
A benchmark
price for a
barrel of oil
to be
delivered next
month fell to
-$37.63 on
Monday, which
means that
sellers would
have to pay
someone that
much to take
it off their
hands.
But that
historic
plunge was
exacerbated by
a quirk in how
the oil
markets work.
The negative
price
concerned only
contracts for
delivery of
barrels in May
that are
traded on
so-called
futures
markets. At
the same time
trading
happens for
May
deliveries,
people trade
on contracts
ending in
June, in July
and so on." Read
more Hmmmm... What??? I realize that
I'm often "out
of it",
but... In all
my life I have
NEVER...
thought of,
let alone
mentioned, nor
have heard
anyone else
mention the
concept of negative
oil!
Often, talked
about $150/B
oil, $250/B,
S20/B even
$7/B oil.
NEVER $0/B
oil,
negative
Oil...
NEVER,NEVER,
NEVER!!!! and
look where we
are. UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Implications:...
no one's
models
extrapolate to
that regime.
(it requires
extrapolation
because no
data exists in
this
unimaginable
region.
Listen to Pod-Cast;
Watch Zoom-Cast
Alain
Friday, April 17, 2020
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Can
Robotaxis
Survive A
Pandemic?
Questions arise about what happens in the robocar world if we need to suffer another pandemic in the future. The Covid-19 crisis took place before the commercial deployment of robocars, but that won’t be true later. I covered some issues in my article on delivery robots, but let’s consider what we’ve learned this year:
- Transit ridership has cratered, and service has been cut
- Delivery demand has vastly increased
- People worry if drivers might be infectious
- People don’t want to touch things, from seats to scooter handlebars, that others are touching
As noted in the delivery article, while delivery robots are always good in a time when there is a massive surge in demand for delivery, it’s pretty easy for a driver in a van with an automatic door to never have to touch the packages, just like a delivery robot. With massive unemployment, human driven vans are probably the best answer to the delivery demand surge...." Read more Hmmmm... Not a pretty picture, but with every challenge, comes opportunities... Listen watch more on Pod-Cast_152/Zoom-Cast_152. Alain
Friday, April 10, 2020
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shuttles help
transport
COVID-19 tests
at Mayo Clinic
in Florida
At a time when health care resources and staff are stretched thin, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) has partnered with Beep and NAVYA to use autonomous vehicles to safely transport COVID-19 tests collected at a drive-thru testing location at Mayo Clinic in Florida.
"This development is a historic moment for the Jacksonville Transportation Authority," says Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr., CEO of Jacksonville Transportation Authority. "Along with our partners, Beep, NAVYA and Mayo Clinic, we are leveraging our learnings from three years of testing autonomous vehicles through our Ultimate Urban Circulator program. Our innovative team saw this as an opportunity to use technology to respond to this crisis in Northeast Florida and increase the safety of COVID-19 testing."..." Read more Hmmmm... While not mentioned in the article, they are operating Driverlessly... without attendant or safety driver. Yea!!! (People aren't being moved, just goods and the Operational Design Domain is constrained, but it it is driverless none the less!) Listen watch more on Pod-Cast_151/Zoom-Cast_151. Alain
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
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of Actuaries
Research Brief
Impact of
COVID-19
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Friday, March 27, 2020
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Starsky
Robotics
Failed. Does
That Mean
Automated
Trucking Is
Dead?
R. Bishop,
Mar 24, "I met
Stefan
Seltz-Axmacher
for the first
time in
November 2015
at the Florida
Automated
Vehicles
Summit. Not
long after, we
met at the
Blue Danube
coffee shop in
Alameda, CA so
he could tell
me about his
vision for
Starsky
Robotics. When
he
energetically
described his
remote-driving-for-trucks approach, I was skeptical. “Remote driving is
hard,” I said.
“The military
has struggled
with this for
years. Its
harder than it
looks.” On the
technical
side, latency
for secure
communications
is
challenging.
On the
operational
side,
re-creating
enough on-road
reality
(situational
awareness) for
a remote
driver is
difficult when
going for the
high levels of
safety needed.
Seltz-Axmacher
remained
bullish on the
approach and
at that time
went on to
found Starsky
Robotics as
one of the
earliest truck
AV startups,
later closing
a $16.5M
Series A
funding round
in March 2018,
and then
hauling
freight while
developing
both remote
and automated
driving
ability.
Initially,
Starsky’s
concept was
all about
remote driving
for first/last
mile. They
later expanded
their offering
to include
fully
automated
highway
driving on
limited
freight
corridors.
Now, Starsky
has become the
first casualty
within a
crowded truck
automation
space, and
Seltz-Axmacher
has provided
us with an
intriguing
post-mortem in
a recent
Medium post.
Most of the
media coverage
I’ve seen has
acted as echo
chambers for
Seltz-Axmacher’s
perspective.
Here I offer a
counterpoint
based on my
longtime
involvement in
truck
automation
plus
discussions
with many
others in the
truck
Automated
Driving
Systems (ADS)
startup space,
many of them
irate at what
they see as
unfounded
assertions
made in the
original post.
My sources
tell me that
because
Seltz-Axmacher
hasn't
experienced
their
technology nor
been briefed
on their
technical/safety
approach, he
has no basis
to make
sweeping
claims about
the entire
industry...."
Read
more Hmmmm... Listen
to PodCast 148.
or/and Watch
us on YouTube.
Alain
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Waymo suspends robotaxi service except for its truly driverless vehicles
K. Korosec,
Mar. 17,
"Waymo said
Tuesday it is
pausing
operations of
Waymo One, a
service in the
Phoenix area
that allows
the public to
hail rides in
self-driving
vehicles with
trained human
safety
operators
behind the
wheel, in
response to
the COVID-19
pandemic.
Waymo is also
halting
testing on
public roads
in California.
However, Waymo
will keep some
operations up
and running,
notably its
truly
driverless
vehicles,
which don’t
require a
human safety
driver,
according to
an
announcement
on its website
Tuesday. These
driverless
vehicles are
used in the
Phoenix area
as part of
Waymo’s early
rider program
that lets
vetted members
of the public
hail a
ride..." Read
more Yippie!!! Unfortunately, the
latest is not
so good... Waymo has suspended all services, including
the
driverless.
Poopie!!!
Alain
Friday, February 28, 2020
NTSB
slams Tesla,
Apple and
regulators
over a fatal
Autopilot
crash
The National Transportation Safety Board said 38-year-old Walter Huang, an Apple software engineer, had Autopilot engaged in his 2018 Tesla Model X and was playing a video game on his iPhone when the car crashed into a defective safety barrier on U.S. Highway 101.The board also blamed the highway safety arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation for failing to properly regulate rapidly evolving robot-car technology.... The board adopted a long list of measures meant to reduce such accidents as “partially automated driving” technologies become more popular in new vehicles....
Friday, February 7, 2020
Friday, January 31, 2020
2020 Hyundai Sonata stars in Super Bowl ad all about 'Smaht Pahk'
Friday, January 24, 2020
The Disengagement Myth
Kyle
Vogt, Jan 17,
"In a few
weeks the
California DMV
will release
disengagements
data from
Cruise and
other
companies who
test AVs on
public roads.
This data is
really great
for giving the
public a sense
of what’s
happening on
the roads.
Unfortunately,
it has also
been used by
the media and
others to
compare
technology
from different
AV companies
or as a proxy
for commercial
readiness.
Since it’s the
only publicly
available
metric, I
don’t really
blame them for
using it. But
it’s woefully
inadequate for
most uses
beyond those
of the DMV.
The idea that
disengagements
give a
meaningful
signal about
whether an AV
is ready for
commercial
deployment is
a myth. ..."
Read
more Hmmmm... Amen! This is a MUST
read. As with
everything, details
matter. It is
true that
figures don't
lie, but but
it is easy to
game systems
such that
figures,
without the
underlying
details, do
lie. As Kyle
points out,
there are
important
details
associated
with
disengagements.
These need to
be well
understood for
disengagements
to be a proxy
for safety and
market
readiness. The
when, where
and associated
details of
each
disengagement
is critically
important if
the objective
is safety and
market
readiness.
What is also most important here
is the
underlying
objective of
the companies
doing the
tests and
reporting the
data. As has
happened in
our secondary
education
where students
are taught
what is in and
how to take
the SATs
rather than
just learn.
The objective
is not
learning , but
getting 800s
on the SATs so
that they can
get into
'Princeton'.
This is
perpetuated by
the
'Princetons'
of this world
that don't
look into the
details of the
student's
academic
qualities and
capabilities.
In the
academic
world, we know
these students
as 'box
checkers',
gamers of the
college
admission
process. The
gaming is
continued by
the 'banks and
med schools'
that use
simplistic GPA
(Grade Point
Average, aka
'disengagements')
cutoffs. The
'box checkers'
then take
'underwater
basket
weaving'
courses and
become grade
grubbers. It
is lazy and
irresponsible
to use
simplistic
measures as
proxies to
very complex
concepts such
as
intelligence,
creativity,
compatibility,
and all the
other details
that make a
good student,
a good
employee, a
good citizen,
a good
mobility
system.
In our case, testing is assumed to be about safety and market readiness; however, for some, it may be about trying to "make a silk purse out of a sow's ear" or "putting lipstick on the pig". It is easy to game the metric 'Disengagements' by simply testing in easy places, under easy conditions, instead of really trying to find the corner/edge cases that you don't know in places and conditions of the Operational Design Domain that you are actually going to serve and make a business out of all of this technology; rather than just trying to get good press, or flipping it to someone else or putting it on an academic self. The details would readily divulge the real objective of the company doing the testing.
I hope that Kyle, in his next post, will divulge what he, GM's lawyers and GM's board are requiring of his system for each of them to sign off and begin to operate an economically viable mobility service to the general public in some ODD. Each will demand that it be safe. The board will also demand that it be profitable. What details are they requesting that will make each comfortable signing on the bottom line? AlainSunday, January 12, 2020
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Hmmmm... Reflections
A. Kornhauser, Jan 12, Hmmmm... Self-driving cars are hot and the OEMs are responding. I'm about to buy a new Subaru Outback and EyeSight is standard. It is no longer just AutoPilot or expensive options that car salesmen don't sell. Car companies, as reflected in what is in showrooms and what was promoted at CES, have realized the comfort and convenience of Self-driving technology (cars that have a lot of the Safe-driving car features but also enable you to take your feet off the pedals and hands off the wheel at least for short periods of time. These technologies are really becoming the 'chrome and fins' that sell cars to individuals in the 2020s. The momentum is all behind that happening and there is little Washington or Trenton or Princeton Council can do about it. Hopefully part of that momentum will be to make these systems actually work well, especially the Automated Emergency Braking Systems (MUST quit assuming that all stationary objects in the lane ahead can be passed under and consequently each is disregarded. As Tesla is finding out, sometimes those objects are parked firetrucks.) and begin to put hard limits on over-speeding, tailgating and use while driver is impaired. Self-driving cars are unfortunately going to lead to substantial urban sprawl, increased VMT, increased congestion and do nothing to help the energy and pollution challenges of our addiction to the personal automobile. Only 'Waymo-style Driverless' (autonomousTaxis, (aTaxis)) tuned to entice ride-sharing can potentially stem the tide of ever more personal car ownership and ever expanding urban sprawl. Alain
Monday, January 6, 2020
Hmmmm...I'm Back
A. Kornhauser, Jan. 6, Hmmmm... I'm in rehab and hope to go home on Wednesday morning. Thank you to so many of you for all the good wishes and prayers. They each helped. I'm looking to making a full recovery. Remember, if you don't feel well, get evaluated by a doctor. I was totally clueless about what hit me from out of nowhere. Alain
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Chandler unveils drop-off, pick-up zone for self-driving cars
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autonomousTaxi (aTaxi) stop facilitating true ride-sharing to any destination within the autonomous transit system's Operational Design Domain. The first of what may well become a half million or so others. Each strategically located to be less that a 5 minute walk from essentially any of the billion or so person trip ends that are made on any typical day in the USA (outside of Manhattan (whose subway stations provide the comparable accessibility). Twenty million or so aTaxi vehicles could readily provide on-demand, share-ride mobility from these ~0.5M aTaxi stops. Provided would be essentially the same 24/7 on-demand level-of-service as we do for ourselves with our own conventional automobiles; however, this mobility would be affordably achieved using half the energy, creating half the pollution, eliminating essentially all the congestion, doubling conventional transit ridership and making such improved mobility available to those who today can't or wish not to drive a conventional automobile. This is a MAJOR 1st. Alain
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Self-driving car capital? One senator thinks it can be Florida
R. Wile,
Nov 22, "Sen. Jeff
Brandes (R-St.
Petersburg) had just
finished serving in
the Army, and was
looking to make a name
for himself in
Tallahassee as a
junior representative.
He came across a talk
given by the founder
of Google’s driverless
car project.
He quickly realized
the potential of
self-driving cars to
transform many aspects
of daily life. Ever
since, he has made it
his mission to turn
Florida into what he
calls “an angel
investor” in
automation policy. “We
want to have policies
in place for this
technology to
flourish,” Brandes
said in an interview
at the 7th Annual
Florida Automated
Vehicles conference in
Miami, which concluded
Friday.
Among the state’s advantages Brandes points to that he believes makes it ideal for AV companies: no snow, which makes lane markings more visible. That also means less road construction in general...." Read more Hmmmm... Congratulations Jeff!!! It was a great AV Summit and congratulations on creating such a Welcoming environment and intelligently shaping the birth of this technology. What you've done is enable Florida to begin to enhance mobility and the quality of life for all in Florida and especially those who can most benefit from these mobility machines. It was most impressive to witness the enthusiasm for nurturing the many aspects of this technology from Florida's Governor, Miami's Mayor, Fl DoT's Commissioner, the heads of the toll road authorities, planning agencies and educational institutions. Most impressive was Ford's comment that their autonomousTaxi efforts are focused on developing driverless technology and intend to operate it to deliver Mobility-as-a-Service in Florida, rather than sell the technology to individual consumers. I applaud that approach and hope that Ford will look to also bringing some of those vehicles to New Jersey so that we can begin to reap the benefits of this technology. What you've accomplished in Florida is THE "best practice" for us to emulate in New Jersey. Congratulations. Alain
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Friday, October 18, 2019
Your Tesla Can Now Pick You Up
R. Mitchell,
Oct. 4, " Smart Summon is for
parking lot use. But drivers
have other ideas.
Tesla unleashed the latest twist in driverless car technology last week, raising more questions about whether autonomous vehicles are outracing public officials and safety regulators.
...Using a
smartphone, a person can now
command a Tesla to turn itself
on, back out of a parking
space and drive to the
smartphone holder's location -
say at a curb in front of a
Costco store.." Read
more Hmmmm....
Russ, great article. A
must read!
Elon,
please stop.
StupidSummon was a
bad
Valley-entitled
idea before you
released it. Now
that it is out
there it will ruin
all that is good
about Tesla,
AutoPilot and
Driverless cars.
The shorters are
going to have a
field day.
While
you are at it also
remove all of the
DistractTainment
add ons or limit
their use when
AutoPilot is NOT
on and drivers are
engaged in
driving. Just go
back to V09!
Along the way also
get the Automated
Emergency Braking
(AEB) system to
work properly (See
NTSB
below). To do
that, maybe you
should take a
serious look at Velodyne's new
Tesla LiDAR.
It may be able to
tell you if the
stationary object
in the lane ahead
is high enough
above the road
surface before
your AEB system
decides to
disregard it. Then
Tesla's may stop decapitating
drivers.
If you
don't remove
StupidSummon then at
least be sure to limit
its use to the Tesla
owner's own private
property by responsible
users. (You know the
GPS coordinates of where
each owner lives, so you
can geofence it. You
also know each
irresponsible use (You
get the videos).
Irresponsible use (use
in the violation of the
conditions spelled out
in the user's manual)
should void its future
availability in that car
unless proper amend are
made. If not, then
insurance companies
should clearly state
that insuring the use of
this feature requires a
substantial additional
premium; else, you're
not covered. Courts
should view that use of
this feature implies
premeditated harm and
demonstrates an extreme
indifference to human
life. Parking Lot
owners should install
signs forbidding the use
of this feature on their
property to protect
themselves from being
dragged into the claims
process.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
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forum will explore
possibility of transit on
demand in Princeton
K. Knapp, Sept 22, "What would
it take to make Princeton an
accessible community for all,
even those who cannot or choose
not to own or drive a car?
Princeton Future will explore
the question at a public forum
from 9 a.m. to noon on Sept. 28
in the community room at the
Princeton Public Library.Princeton Future is a non-profit community group that studies issues related to planning, development, and affordability. Speakers will discuss the capabilities of a transit-on-demand system where small, driverless shuttles could be summoned by a smart phone app to a location within walking distance of a resident’s home...." Read more Hmmmm.... Listen to a summary of the event in Episode 126 of the SmartDrivingCars PodCasts. See below for other info. Alain
Friday, September 20, 2019
Waymo’s robotaxi pilot surpassed 6,200 riders in its first month in California
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Vehicles: A View from
Seniors
Friday, March 29, 2019
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vehicles could provide
mobility to the ‘mobility
disadvantaged’
Friday, March 1, 2019
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S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Lyft, Inc.
Autonomous 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);
Thursday,
November 22, 2018
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Market
Framework and Outlook for
Automated Vehicle Systems
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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Testimony
of Alain Kornhauser, Assembly
Science, Innovation and
Technology - Monday, October 22,
2018 - 10:00:00 AM
Audio Recording of Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology - Monday, October 22, 2018 - 10:00:00 AM
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".
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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Cognition out of Images for
the Purpose of Autonomous
Driving
Sunday, December 19, 2015
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Jonas' View on Autonomous Cars
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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