Press release, Feb 6,
"NHTSA announced today that it granted
Nuro’s request for a temporary exemption
from certain low-speed vehicle standard
requirements. The exemption will allow
the company to deploy its low-speed,
occupantless electric delivery vehicle,
the “R2.” Unlike a conventional
low-speed vehicle, the R2 is designed to
have no human occupant and operates
exclusively using an automated driving
system.
“Since this is a low-speed self-driving
delivery vehicle, certain features that
the Department traditionally required –
such as mirrors and a windshield for
vehicles carrying drivers – no longer
make sense,” said U.S. Secretary of
Transportation Elaine L. Chao... " Read more
Hmmmm... this is: One
small step. The bigger one
will be for the GM/Cruise
vehicle. Be sure to read the Supplemental
Information. Details
matter. Alain
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Program 4th Annual Princeton
SmartDrivingCar
Summit
evening May 19 through May 21, 2020
(Tickets are
limited, register before May 1)
A. Roy, Jan 31, "he scope of
mobility-industry clickbait is so
massive these days, all the wine at a
Pagani owners meet isn't enough to
make sense of it. Consider the
transportation sector, in which
publicists compete to unleash ever
more BS words on an overwhelmed
public. How best to counter the daily
storm of nonsense and exaggeration?
-—with a glossary for the ages.
Here goes:.. " Read
more
Hmmmm... enjoy!! Alain
A. Roy, 2020, "2,811 miles. 2 drivers. 1 car. The movie they didn't want us to release. The true story of how the Cannonball Run record was broken...." Read more Hmmmm... See movie. Enjoy!! Alain
A. Hawkins, Feb 6, "... Nuro, the
self-driving startup founded by two
ex-Google engineers, has a new
delivery robot. The R2 is the
company’s second-generation vehicle,
and while it looks similar to the
first-generation R1 — egg-shaped, no
room for a human driver, objectively
cute — there is one important
difference: the R2 has been granted a
special exemption from federal safety
requirements....
That may sound dangerous, but it’s
actually pretty significant. It gives
Nuro permission to produce and test
vehicles that aren’t intended for
human drivers. Right now, Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS)
require cars to have basic, human
controls, like steering wheels,
pedals, sideview mirrors, and so on.
These standards specify how vehicles
must be designed before they can be
sold in the US... But Nuro’s exemption
will come with some strings attached.
According to the department (emphasis
ours):
Given the R2’s unique and novel
design, though, NHTSA has determined
that it would be in the public
interest to maintain greater oversight
of the R2 than typical for an exempt
vehicle, and has conditioned the
exemption on a set of terms including
mandatory reporting of information
about the operation of the R2
(including the automated driving
system) and required outreach to the
communities where the R2 will be
deployed..." Read more
Hmmmm...This is
significant! Alain
D. Cardinal, Feb 4, "Whatever your
thoughts about how quickly autonomous
vehicle technology will move forward,
there is little doubt that it will
need to rely on better and less
expensive sensor technology than we
have available today. Current test
vehicles often have sensor suites
costing over $100,000, and still can’t
deal with all types of road and
weather conditions.
To help provide some background
context and assess the future
potential of various sensor
technologies, we assembled a panel of
industry experts at Electronic Imaging
2020. They represented the major
sensor modalities in automotive use
today: lidar, radar, cameras, and
thermal imaging. Everyone learned a
lot, and there were some great
takeaways that we’ll share with you in
this writeup of the session....
When asked about the argument that “people can drive with two eyes, why can’t cars?” their responses ranged from needing to be better than human drivers to a desire for true redundancy for safety. All of the panelists also agreed that it would be years before the advanced technology needed for L4 and above would be close to affordable for retail car buyers. So they are all determined to buckle up for the long, slow, adoption curve they expect as costs gradually come down with increased volume and innovation." Read more Hmmmm... Redundancy isn't really good when there is disagreement. Which is correct??? Also, being "better than humans" should NOT be the goal. Humans are absolutely fantastic as long as they don't misbehave. A system that is as good as humans and misbehaves much less is substantially "better than humans". Alain
F. Delaunay, Jan 28, "...
AlixPartners’ Global
Autonomous Vehicle Report, which
is based on a survey of more than
6,500 consumers across China, France,
Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom,
and the United States, found that
consumers are willing to spend just an
8% to 24% premium for
“hands-off-the-wheel” autonomy over
today’s already-available technologies
(lane-keeping assistance, automatic
braking, etc.). The results ranged
from Germany’s 24% down to 8% in
China. Americans surveyed said they’d
be willing to pay just a 9% premium—or
$1,868 versus $1,709.
At the same time, the survey results
also suggest that the traditional auto
industry, in particular, faces another
big challenge when it comes to AVs:
competition from ride-hailing.
When asked if they’d be willing to
consider switching from
personal-vehicle ownership to using
autonomous-vehicle ride-hailing
services, or “robotaxis,” if the
monthly cost were from 40% cheaper to
even 20% more expensive than vehicle
ownership, 44% to 84% across the six
countries said they would—led by
consumers in China, the world’s
largest auto market, at the 84%. In
the U.S., 44% said they’d consider
swapping their personal vehicle for
ride-hailing under such
circumstances..." Read more
Hmmmm... The results about
aTaxis are interesting and
encouraging. Alain
M. Wayland, Feb 5, "The global
autonomous vehicle industry is an $8
trillion market opportunity, according
to General Motors’ autonomous vehicle
unit Cruise.
Dan Ammann, CEO of the GM
majority-owned autonomous vehicle
subsidiary, on Wednesday said that
valuation includes autonomous
ride-hailing services to compete
against current companies such as Uber
and Lyft at a potentially $5 trillion
sector; $2 trillion for freight; and
$500 billion each for data insights
and in-vehicle experiences.... " Read
more
Hmmmm... In line with Adam
Jonas' original $10T/yr.
See the embedded video. Alain
Press release, Feb 5, "Arizona's first shared-ride, autonomous shuttle operating on a public street is coming to Peoria. Last night, Peoria's city council approved the funding for a 60-day autonomous vehicle pilot program with Beep, a Florida-based autonomous mobility solutions company.... The Beep Command Center can also communicate with the onboard shuttle attendant at any time. The shuttle holds up to 10 passengers at a time and will operate at a maximum speed of 15 mph as part of the pilot program...." Read more Hmmmm...This is Peoria, Arizona. It does have an attendant. Alain
Carscoops, Jan 31, "This video shows what Tesla Autopilot's neural network sees on the road. Tesla says the system relies on per-camera networks to analyze raw images to perform semantic segmentation, object detection and monocular depth estimation. It employes birds-eye-view networks to take a video from all cameras to output the road layout, static infrastructure and 3D objects directly in the top-down view.... " Read more Hmmmm... See video. Fairly impressive. Frame rates of about 17 frames per second, with lanes and road edges clearly seen. However, ... There doesn't seem to be any indication on the screen of the approaching car from the left 20 seconds in. Plus there are no situations in which it approaches any stationary object overhead (tree canopy, overpass,...) nor a 53 foot trailer without a skirt stationary in the lane ahead, or a parked firetruck, or a transition from car-following to leading with a stationary object in the lane ahead, or .... Alain
F. Lambert, Feb 5, "Tesla’s
Autopilot, which the automaker is
trying to turn into a self-driving
system, is going to detect potholes
and make mini-maps to remember them,
according to a new comment from CEO
Elon Musk.
In order to achieve full self-driving,
a system would have to be able to
handle a wide range of different
scenarios, including different weather
and road conditions.
These conditions, like potholes, can
sometimes be difficult for human
drivers to handle, and some people
find it improbable that self-driving
systems will be able to appropriately
navigate them.
Tesla is leveraging its large customer
fleet equipped with Autopilot hardware
to capture data on those corner cases
and teach its neural network to handle
them.... "
Read more
Hmmmm...Why not! This is
leveraging Tesla's over-the-air
communications. Just the
beginning of what they can do as
they scale. Alain
F. Lambert, Feb 4, "...I think it
would make sense for us to close-loop
on higher use of Autopilot, it reduces
the insurance costs as well as the
probability of injury.'..." Read more
Hmmmm.. Why not! Alain
J. Lin, Nov 15, "...This report represents the culmination of extensive research, deliberation, and discussion in 2019 led by a 34 members Executive Committee made up of public, private and non-profit organizations, and seven subcommittees lead by nine different state agencies with the participation of nearly 500 stakeholders. The AV Work Group effort is truly a broad-based, transparent, and inclusive process with stakeholders and experts driving the research, assessment, and determination of what our state decision makers need to consider in order to prepare for the operation of AV’s on our public roadways in Washington State.." Read more Hmmmm... Unfortunately it seems that Washington State is singularly focused on AVs for consumers, rather than the opportunity that AVs to deliver substantial affordable on-demand shared-ride mobility-as-a-service. I guess that Washington State is content to continue to promote and expand single occupant do-it-yourself mobility as the mainstay for the State. (Oops.. there is an image of an Olli on page 1 (offset by numerous images of connected personal vehicles.) So disappointing. Alain
There are so
many bad articles. I'm
overwhelmed. C'mon
Man! Alain
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F. Fishkin, May 18,, "From the 3rd Annual Princeton Smart Driving Car Summit, join Professor Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin. In this special edition, the summit's focus on mobility for all with guests Anil Lewis, Executive Director of Blindness Initiatives at the National Federation of the Blind and ITN America Founder Katherine Freund."
April 5, F. Fishkin, "The success of on demand transit company Via is proving that ride sharing systems can work. Public Policy head Andrei Greenawalt joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin for a wide ranging discussion. Also: Uber, Tesla, Audi, Apple and Nuro are making headlines"
April 5, F. Fishkin, "Here comes congestion pricing in New York City...but what will it mean? Former city Taxi and Limousine Commission head and transportation expert Matthew Daus joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin. Also...Tesla, VW and even Brexit! All on Episode 98 of Smart Driving Cars."
March 28, F. Fishkin, "The Future Networked Car? From Sweden, The Dispatcher publisher, Michael Sena, joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin for the latest edition of Smart Driving Cars. Plus ...the Boeing story has much to do with autonomous vehicles and more. Tune in and subscribe."
F. Fishkin, Sept 6, "The coming new world of driverless cars! In Episode 55 of the Smart Driving Cars podcast former GM VP and adviser to Waymo Larry Burns chats with Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and Fred Fishkin about his new book "Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car and How it Will Reshape Our World"
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? AlainT. Lee, Jan. 10, "...In a Tuesday speech at the Consumer Electronics show, Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua made clear just how big of a strategic advantage this is. He laid out Mobileye's vision for the evolution of self-driving technology over the next five years. And he made it clear that he envisions Mobileye staying at the center of the industry...
In his
Tuesday speech,
Mobileye's Shashua calls
ADAS systems with
high-definition maps,
like Super Cruise,
"Level 2+"—a small step
above regular ADAS
systems that are called
"level 2" in the
five-level SAE
framework. A number of
carmakers have developed
similar systems. Shashua
says Mobileye is
supplying the technology
for 70 percent of them,
including systems from
Nissan, Volkswagen, and
BMW..." Read
more
Hmmmm...
This is all about
Self-driving just
like Tesla's
AutoPilot. It is
not Driverless.
A
lot is made about
HD maps that I
simply don't
appreciate. "...
The company uses all
this data to generate
detailed,
high-definition maps of
the areas where the cars
drive..."
HD maps don't have
any info on the
other cars,
pedestrians and
... that are
moving around you
when you drive.
Nor do they have
the "stopped
firetrucks" in
your lane ahead.
Call these thing
"half" of the
things that you
don't want to hit
while driving down
the road. You and
I need something
(cameras, radars)
to sense these in
real time as we
move down the
road. These
things need to
"see" everything
around you
(especially in
front of you),
which likely
include the things
that are NOT in
the HD maps.
Moreover, by
sensing them
relative to "my
nose", I only need
"10 cm" accuracy,
especially when I
do this in real
time 20 to 30 a
second.
Also,
I don't really
need to know where
I am. I only care
about objects
relative to where
I am. (Since I
only care about my
position relative
to the static map
data, I need to
take the
difference between
my position and
the position of
the objects in the
map data. The
accuracy of that
difference in
those two values
(my location and
the object's
location in the
map data) is the
inferior accuracy
of those two
values. Good luck
at independently
knowing to
centimeter
accuracy your
position every
20th or 30th of a
second. So
"centimeter'
accuracy in the HD
data is totally
useless and need
not be any more
accurate than your
independent
positional
accuracy. What is
easier and better
is to simply
directly measure
the relative
positions (and
velocities and
accelerations
and...) of
everything
every/many time
steps in (near)
real-time and
disregard any of
the "precision" in
the map data that
isn't complete and
latent.
So,
please, explain to
me why I need
super accurate
info about the
stationary things.
Seems like an
enormous amount of
overhead to carry
around when it is
still p to the
real-time sensing
system to spot the
stopped firetruck
in the lane
ahead. (Also,
most folks, if
they pay attention
and behave, they
drive very safely
without HD maps
and just
Rand-McNally fold
out maps.)
Also, can you imagine how useless much of the real-time image data are (data is plural). Everything that is moving in each frame is unique, never to happen precisely again. All of that needs to be purged. Also all of the non-"permanent" stuff like parked cars and "stopped firetrucks". One thing that our brains do very well is to forget, (especially those of Steelers fans). In addition to "Optimal Learning" algorithms, we need some "Optimal Forgetting" algorithms. Alain
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
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
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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
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.
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.
Oct 16, Establishes
fully autonomous vehicle pilot program
A4573 Sponsors: Zwicker (D16);
Benson (D14)
Oct 16, Establishes
New
Jersey Advanced Autonomous Vehicle Task
Force AJR164 Sponsors: Benson
(D14); Zwicker (D16); Lampitt (D6)
May 24, "About 9:58 p.m.,
on Sunday, March 18, 2018, an Uber
Technologies, Inc. test vehicle, based
on a modified 2017 Volvo XC90 and
operating with a self-driving system in
computer control mode, struck a
pedestrian on northbound Mill Avenue, in
Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona.
...The vehicle was
factory equipped with several advanced
driver assistance functions by Volvo
Cars, the original manufacturer. The
systems included a collision avoidance
function with automatic emergency
braking, known as City Safety, as well
as functions for detecting driver
alertness and road sign information. All
these Volvo functions are disabled when
the test vehicle is operated in computer
control..."
Read more Hmmmm....
Uber must believe that its
systems are better at avoiding
Collisions and Automated
Emergency Braking than Volvo's.
At least this gets Volvo "off
the hook".
"...According
to data obtained from the
self-driving system, the system
first registered radar and LIDAR
observations of the pedestrian about
6 seconds before impact, when the
vehicle was traveling at 43 mph..."
(=
63 feet/second) So the
system started "seeing an
obstacle when it was 63 x 6
= 378 feet away... more than
a football field, including
end zones!
"...As
the vehicle and pedestrian paths
converged, the self-driving system
software classified the pedestrian
as an unknown object, as a vehicle,
and then as a bicycle with varying
expectations of future travel
path..."
(NTSB:
Please tell us precisely
when it classified this
"object' as a vehicle
and be explicit about
the expected "future
travel paths." Forget the
path, please just tell us the
precise velocity vector that
Uber's system attached to the
"object", then the "vehicle".
Why didn't the the Uber system
instruct the Volvo to begin to
slow down (or speed up) to avoid
a collision? If these paths (or
velocity vectors) were not
accurate, then why weren't they
accurate? Why was the object
classified as a
"Vehicle" ??
When did it finally classify the
object as a "bicycle"? Why did it
change classifications? How
often was the classification of
this object done. Please
divulge the time and the outcome
of each classification of this
object. In the
tests that Uber has done,
how often has the system
mis-classified an object as
a "pedestrian"when
the object was actually
an overpass, or an
overhead sign or
overhead branches/leaves
that the car could
safely pass under, or
was nothing at all??
(Basically, what are the
false alarm
characteristics of
Uber's Self-driving
sensor/software system
as a function of vehicle
speed and time-of-day?)
"...At 1.3 seconds before impact, (impact speed was 39mph = 57.2 ft/sec) the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision" (1.3 x 57.2 = 74.4 ft. which is about equal to the braking distance. So it still could have stopped short.
"...According
to Uber, emergency
braking maneuvers are not
enabled while the
vehicle is under
computer control, to
reduce (eradicate??)
the potential
for erratic vehicle
behavior. ..."
NTSB: Please
describe/define potential
and
erratic vehicle
behavior
Also
please uncover
and divulge
the design
& decision
process that
Uber went
through to
decide that
this risk
(disabling the
AEB) was worth
the reward of
eradicating "
"erratic vehicle behavior". This
is
fundamentally
BAD design.
If the Uber
system's false
alarm rate is
so large that
the best way
to deal with
false alarms
is to turn off
the AEB, then
the system
should never
have been
permitted on
public
roadways.
"...The vehicle operator
is relied on
to intervene
and take
action. " Wow! If Uber's
system
fundamentally
relies on a
human to
intervene,
then Uber is
nowhere near
creating a
Driverless
vehicle.
Without its
own Driverless
vehicle Uber
is past "Peak
valuation".
Video similar to part of Adam's Luncheon talk @ 2015 Florida Automated Vehicle Symposium on Dec 1. Hmmm ... Watch Video especially at the 13:12 mark. Compelling; especially after the 60 Minutes segment above! Also see his TipRanks. Alain
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