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7th edition of the 11th year of SmartDrivingCars eLetter

Carmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech. This Engineer Wants Limits.

C. Metz, Feb. 15, Last fall, Missy Cummings sent a document to her colleagues at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that revealed a surprising trend: When people using advanced driver-assistance systems die or are injured in a car crash, they are more likely to have been speeding than people driving cars on their own.

The two-page analysis of nearly 400 crashes involving systems like Tesla’s Autopilot and General Motors’ Super Cruise is far from conclusive. But it raises fresh questions about the technologies that have been installed in hundreds of thousands of cars on U.S. roads. Dr. Cummings said the data indicated that drivers were becoming too confident in the systems’ abilities and that automakers and regulators should restrict when and how the technology was used.

People “are over-trusting the technology,” she said. “They are letting the cars speed. And they are getting into accidents that are seriously injuring them or killing them.”

Read more Hmmmm…. Yup!! Excellent discussion is in SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 304 / PodCast 304 W/Prof. Missy Cummings

SmartDrivingCars ZoomCast 304 / PodCast 304 W/Prof. Missy Cummings

“F. Fishkin, Feb. 16” She was among the first female fighter pilots in the Navy, was recently a senior NHTSA safety advisor, and is a professor of engineering and computer science. Missy Cummings is worried that ADAS technology is causing more people to speed. What to do? Dr. Cummings joins Alain and Fred to discuss. Plus the latest from Zoox, Tesla and more.

0:00 open
1:00 Missy Cumming pushing for limits on autonomous tech
9:30 hands free, feet free driving dangers
15:00 Should tech be used to block speeding and reckless driving?
32:00 Issues with intelligent cruise control
40:30 Is the battle for cars that would forbid speeding winnable?
44:00 Are vehicle safety systems not communicating with each other?
50:00 Is the problem with vehicles identifying stationary objects being addressed?
55:20 Zoox begins carrying passengers on public roads in vehicles without steering wheels
57:17 Rob Mauer’s Tesla Daily
58:30 Ken Pyle’s ViodiTV compiles autonomous round up from CES
59:25 Brad Templeton launches Robocars podcast
59:48 Alain will lead off MIT Mobility Forum series Friday
0:00 Intro / TSLA
0:34 PPI1:57FOMC comments
3:20 FSD Beta recall
8:47 Tesla firings (see pinned comment)
10:22 S/X discount
11:26 Ford admits defeat
13:59 Renault on price cuts
0:00 Intro / TSLA
1:14 SEC filings
2:35 Delivery windows
4:40 Major Supercharger news
9:51 Rumor update
10:37 Hardware 4 leak
17:28 China production rumor
18:53 Tesla & Mexico
19:09 Berlin battery production
19:41 Musk comments
20:15 Robot dating
0:00 Intro
1:17 Waymo and Cruise letters from San Francisco(*)
9:49 Calling 911 on sleeping people and cameras in cars
18:33 Consumer Reports on drive-pilot systems (ADA)
25:18 Mercedes S-Class Level 3 in Nevada
33:18 The Tesla Bay Bridge pile-up (*)
37:52 Tesla’s Safety Numbers are Back
45:03 Waymo at the Superbowl
49:22 Running out of Lithium and Toyota (*)
1:01:24 Emissions from AVs (*)
1:10:18 Layoffs at Waymo Via
1:17:20 CES
1:21:20 Wrap-up

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MIT Mobility Forum: Spring 2023

· Fridays 12:00-13:00 Boston Time Open to the public

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· Hosted by Prof. Jinhua Zhao

AGENDA

· Feb 17 Alain Kornhauser “Envisioning Profitable Autonomous Transit Networks”

· Feb 24 Hani Mahmassani “Telemobility, hybrid work and the next normal”

· March 3 Liz Renold and David Mindell “Tectonic shifts in science, technology, and industrial policy: looking ahead”

· March 10 Juan de Dios Ortuzar “Modelling Sustainable Options - the importance of habit and perceptions”

· March 17 Robin Chase “The case against transportation policy priority one being electrified personal cars”

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SafeDrivingCars: Those in which the automated function are explicitly designed to not only substantially reduce driver misbehavior by constraining the performance characteristic such as incorporating speed governors that only permit excessive speeds in geofenced locations such as Watkins Glen International and stretches of the German Autobahn, but also automatically intervene to prevent crashes; thus, extending what is done today with anti-lock brakes and electronic stability control.
SelfDrivingCars: Those which allow the driver for some extended period of time to be “feet-off” the brake & throttle, delivering to the driver substantial comfort & convenience, but also “hands-off” the wheel for shorter periods of time providing a little more comfort & convenience. Absolutely required are “eyes & brain” focused the human task of driving, ready to intervene should the automated driver begin to fail.

DriverlessCars: Those which serve only passengers and/or goods from trip start, through finish. Luckily, the notion that individuals might own such vehicles for personal use and/or be able to “AirB&B” them for others to get from A to B is now realized by essentially everyone as exceedingly naïve. The Mercedes booth at this year’s CES showed no sign of its [Mercedes Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion

LIVE PREMIERE CES 2015](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eftN0lwNk88). Yea!

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Hawkins, Oct. 27, “When Ford announced yesterday that it was pulling its support for Argo AI, the autonomous driving startup it had financed since 2017, it cited as one of its reasons a belief that driver-assist technology will have more near-term payoffs…..” Read more Hmmmm… I agree with Andrew, as I stated above. Alain

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Tesla FSD Beta V 10.69 Dominates Downtown Driving
FSD Beta 10.69 (2022.16.3.10) Release Notes
FSDBeta v10.69 - HEAVY TRAFFIC - Unprotected Left Turns… Amazing that such turns are legal let alone FSD’s routing algorithm deciding that this is on the best way to go. Safety must not be part of its objective function C’mon Elon.
FSD Beta V 10.69 Initial Impressions. My impression is that 10.69 drove better than this tester who seemed intent on driving aggressively and not wanting to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. Hopefully no one at Tesla pays attention to this guy.
Bullish News From Giga Berlin Tours, Production Rumors, Terrible Toyota
The Tesla Semi Is Officially Here!

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These systems outrageously reduce crash probabilities, and/or
maybe some, but we’re probably not much luckier.
very few of the cars in use during that “10” month period had Level 2 capabilities, and/or
unfortunately, the VIN number doesn’t identify these cars and only Tesla announces how many sold (I may have missed the reportings)
very few of the drivers of those cars rarely engaged the Level 2 features, and/or
likely. Only Tesla releases data on the utilization of its level 2 features but does so only in aggregate terms that don’t allow for correction of sampling bias associated with engagement in “easy” driving conditions versus “challenging” driving conditions.
enormous under counting
likely, only Tesla has the opportunity to either “know all” or sample effectively because of their OtA monitoring of its vehicles. Everyone else has conveniently kept their heads in the sand. Mercedes didn’t report any; however, during that period I think my Intelligent Cruise Control and Lane Centering were engaged when I hit a deer. Mercedes must not have been watching me, I didn’t report it and I didn’t get the memo that informed me to do anything.

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those that don’t already have a stable full of their own personal mobility options.
those for which his aTaxi can substantially change their lives for the better.

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