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height="24"> 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....
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California
DMV releases autonomous
vehicle disengagement
reports for 2019
K. Wiggers< Feb 26, "This
morning the California
Department of Motor Vehicles
released a batch of 2019
reports from the companies
piloting self-driving vehicles
in the state. By law, all
companies actively testing
autonomous cars on public
roads in California are
required to disclose the
number of miles driven and how
often human drivers were
forced to take
This morning the California
Department of Motor Vehicles
released a batch of 2019
reports from the companies
piloting self-driving vehicles
in the state. By law, all
companies actively testing
autonomous cars on public
roads in California are
required to disclose the
number of miles driven and how
often human drivers were
forced to take control of
their vehicles, otherwise
known as a “disengagement.”
Formally, the DMV defines
disengagements as
“deactivation of the
autonomous mode when a failure
of the autonomous technology
is detected or when the safe
operation of the vehicle
requires that the autonomous
vehicle test driver disengage
the autonomous mode and take
immediate manual control of
the vehicle.” Critics say it
leaves wiggle room for
companies to withhold
information about certain
failures, like vehicles
running red lights in order to
avoid hitting pedestrians
about to cross the street. But
in lieu of federal rules, the
reports offer one of the few
metrics for comparing the
industry’s pack leaders.
According to the DMV, AV
permit holders — of
which there are 60 — traveled
approximately 2.88 million
miles in autonomous mode on
California’s public roads
during the reporting period,
an increase of more than
800,000 miles from the
previous reporting cycle.
Currently, 64 companies have
valid permits to test
autonomous vehicles with a
safety driver on California
public roadways, up from 48
companies in 2018. It’s worth
noting that only five
companies — Aurora, AutoX,
Pony.ai, Waymo, and Zoox —
have permits under the
California Public Utilities
Commission (CPUC) to transport
passengers in autonomous
vehicles, with Zoox receiving
the first one in December
2018....
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Between a Sport Utility
Vehicle Operating With
Partial Driving Automation
and a Crash Attenuator
Mountain View, California
March 23, 2018 HWY18FH011
Report of Public Meeting, Feb 25, "This is a synopsis from the NTSB’s report and does not include the Board’s rationale for the conclusions, probable cause, and safety recommendations. NTSB staff is currently making final revisions to the report from which the attached conclusions and safety recommendations have been extracted. The final report and pertinent safety recommendation letters will be distributed to recommendation recipients as soon as possible. The attached information is subject to further review and editing to reflect changes adopted during the Board meeting. Executive Summary..."
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Hmmmm... Read
carefully. Also look at
Opening
Statement, Staff
Presentations, Closing
Statement and Video
of hearing. Alain
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Tesla could explain why it
crashed. But good luck
getting its Autopilot data
He wasn’t alone, in one sense: Tesla’s semiautonomous driver-assist system, known as Autopilot — which can steer, brake and change lanes — was activated. Suddenly and without warning, Casuga claims in a Superior Court of California lawsuit, Autopilot yanked the car left. The Tesla crossed a double yellow line, and without braking, drove through the oncoming lane and crashed into a ditch, all before Casuga was able to retake control.
Tesla confirmed Autopilot was engaged, according to the suit, but said the driver was to blame, not the technology. Casuga’s attorney, Mike Nelson in New York City, asked Tesla to release the data to show exactly what happened. Tesla refused, the suit claims, and referred Casuga and his lawyer to the car’s event data recorder, known as the black box. But the black box — a common feature in cars since the early 2000s — doesn’t record Autopilot data. Autopilot information is captured and stored separately, often sent over the airwaves to Tesla’s remote cloud computer repository.
Finding out who or what caused a car crash should be easier today. Cars have become computers on wheels, bristling with sensors, data processors and memory chips. The information “is significantly better and more potentially useful than ever,” said Jason Levine, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, an advocacy group....
“Data associated with a crash, or even near-crash, of a vehicle operating under automated control should not be deemed proprietary,” said Alain Kornhauser, professor of operations research at Princeton University, a specialist in driverless technology and policy, and founder of the annual Smart Driving Car summit. “Safety must be a cooperative effort, not a ‘I know something you don’t know’ competitive play.”
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Program 4th
Annual
Princeton
SmartDrivingCar
Summit
evening May 19 through May
21, 2020 (Tickets
are limited, register
before May 1)
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alt="" class="" width="29"
height="29"> RoboSense
LiDAR Announced as a
Finalist in Transportation
& Logistics Category in
the 2020 Edison Awards
Press release, Feb 13,
"RoboSense’s automotive MEMS
LiDAR“RS-LiDAR-M1” has been
named a finalist in
transportation &Logistics
category for the 2020 Edison
Awards. The Edison Awards,
named after Thomas Alva
Edison, recognizes and honors
the world’s best innovations
and innovators.... The
RoboSense RS-LiDAR-M1 is the
world’s first and smallest
MEMS Smart LiDAR Sensor to
incorporate sensor hardware,
AI perception algorithms, and
IC chipsets, transforming
conventional LiDAR sensors
from an information collector
to a complete data analysis
and comprehension system,
providing essential
information for autonomous
vehicle decision-making faster
than ever before. The
RS-LiDAR-M1 meets every
automotive-grade requirement,
including intelligence, low
cost, stability, simplified
structure and small size,
vehicle body design
friendliness, and algorithm
processed semantic-level
perception output results...."
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Hmmmm...Interesting
and nice advancement.
Alain
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Marking Standards for
Automated Driving Systems
and Improved Driving Safety
Markings Committee, Jan. 9,
"The Markings Technical
Committee (MTC) Automated
Driving Systems (ADS) RFI Task
Force has identified three
areas where pavement markings
can support automated driving
systems: uniformity, quality,
and maintenance. This proposal
addresses the highest priority
uniformity issues....
Pavement markings are the most often cited traffic control device that the automated driving industry references in terms of a highway infrastructure element to support the deployment of partial to full automated driving. However, the references were often vague with inadequate details for highway agencies to assess or even implement....
The proposed recommendations
represent the highest needs
from the automated driving
community. They are automotive
“Original Equipment
Manufacturers” (OEM’s) neutral
and will provide safer, more
robust pavement marking
detection rates resulting in
fewer vehicles unintentionally
leaving their lane (roadway
departure crashes make up over
half of all fatalities and
serious injury crashes in the
US). ..." Read
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Hmmmm... This is
great. Good paint is
what everyone needs,
both human drivers and
automated driving
systems! Thank you!
Alain
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height="19"> Relax.
Self-driving cars are smart
enough to see past some
tricky electrical tape.
S. Lekach, Feb 20. "This
week, McAfee security
researchers released 18 months
worth of research that
demonstrates the ease with
which a "smart" autonomous
vehicle can be tricked into
misreading and accelerating
past speed limits. The finding
that some strategically placed
black tape on a speed limit
sign could trip up a smart car
equipped with Mobileye cameras
(used for advanced driving
systems) to go 85 mph instead
of the 35 mph limit certainly
seemed alarming.
But there were some major
caveats to the research.
Mainly, that for self-driving
vehicles (i.e., cars reliant
on computer control for
driving versus a hybrid system
like Tesla's that relies on
humans and software for
piloting) this weakness
discovered in older Teslas
isn't an actual issue.
You can check out McAfee's
successful hack, in which the
car's cruise control zooms
past 35 mph, in the video
above.
But before freaking out about
all the ways self-driving and
automated vehicles are doomed,
first consider that the McAfee
Advanced Threat Research team
tested this model hack on two
2016 Teslas; newer Tesla
models have since stopped
using Mobileye cameras in
favor of the company's own
proprietary cameras.
Also, the version of the
Mobileye camera used in those
models has been updated and
that version is no longer
susceptible to the hack...." Read
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Hmmmm... So much
for McAfee's
self-serving "hack".
Alain
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shuttle company ordered to
stop carrying passengers
after injury
S. O'Kane. Feb 26, "The
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA)
has partially suspended the US
operations of France’s
EasyMile after a passenger in
Ohio was injured while riding
in one of the company’s
self-driving shuttles.
EasyMile can continue
operating its shuttles while
NHTSA investigates, but the
company can’t carry any
passengers.
EasyMile currently operates
its self-driving shuttles in a
handful of US cities,
including in Columbus, Ohio,
where two of them have been
running along a nearly 3-mile
loop in a residential area at
speeds of up to 25 miles per
hour, according to Reuters.
But last week, one of those
shuttles made an “emergency
stop” from a speed of just 7
miles per hour, and a
passenger fell out of their
seat as a result...." Read
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Hmmmm... Whew, this
is harsh. I guess all
these systems are going
to require the use of
seat belts. Alain
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height="27"> Michigan
governor creates office for
mobility initiatives such as
self-driving, connected cars
D. Eggert, Feb 25, "Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Tuesday that Michigan will have a mobility officer to coordinate all initiatives related to self-driving and connected cars, an effort she said will ensure the state is the go-to place for testing and producing vehicles of the future....
She also signed an executive
order to establish the
Michigan Council on Future
Mobility and Electrification,
an advisory group that will
replace but function similarly
to one created by a 2016 law.
The council will be housed
within the Department of Labor
and Economic Opportunity
instead of the Department of
Transportation...." Read
more
Hmmmm... Not a bad
move. DoTs tend to be
too focused on providing
pavement and bridges.
They are also obsessed
with Vehicle Miles
Traveled rather than
mobility Miles
Traveled. us on people
rather than vehicles
changes many things.
Alain
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steers $400 million to
self-driving startup Pony.ai
A. Hawkins, Feb 25, "Pony.ai,
a self-driving startup based
in Silicon Valley and
Guangzhou, China, is deepening
its ties to Toyota. The two
companies announced a pilot
program to test self-driving
cars on public roads in two
Chinese cities, Beijing and
Shanghai. The Japanese auto
giant plans to invest $400
million in Pony.ai, valuing
the startup at $3 billion.
Pony.ai has been working with
Toyota since 2019 on public
autonomous vehicle testing.
With this new investment,
their relationship will become
even closer, with the
automaker and the startup
“co-developing” mobility
products like “mobility
services.”
...Toyota, the world’s
largest automaker, has largely
kept quiet on its self-driving
car program...." Read
more
Hmmmm... Toyota
seemed to have shut down
right after the Uber
Herzberg crash. Maybe
they are beginning to
resurface. ALain
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Model 3 Crushes Original
Tesla Roadster — Like A
$70,000–100,000 Car With
Cost Of Toyota Camry Or
Honda Accord
Z. Shahan, Feb 25, "As you
may have seen by now, 7 year
Tesla insider David Havasi and
I have been getting together
in recent months to talk about
the deep history of Tesla from
an insider (David) and
outsider (me) perspective in a
podcast and video chat series
called Tesla
Inside Out. We’ve
together decided that we
really want to do two things
with this series: 1) delve
into funny, cool, interesting
Tesla stories from years ago
(that’s basically all David),
and 2) discuss Tesla news of
the day together (like friends
at a coffee shop — but you’re
invited), drawing on David’s
history in the company and my
historical perspective from
covering the company for 7+
years.... " Read
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Hmmmm... What I
was most impressed about
was the chart showing
the 85% drop in prices
of Lithium-ion batteries
in the last 10 years.
While battery prices
need to continue to
drop, what's been
achieved is
impressive! Alain
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Ridehailing Could Be More
Profitable Than We Had
Modeled
T. Kenney, Feb 19, "ARK
estimated that consumers will
be able to travel on
autonomous ridehailing
platforms for just $0.25 per
mile when they reach scale in
2024, or less than half the
cost of driving a personal car
and roughly one tenth the cost
of a taxi. With these
compelling economics driving
customer adoption, ARK’s
research previously concluded
that companies owning and
operating the autonomous
technology stacks – like Waymo
and Tesla – could command a
take-rate of 20-30% of
revenues, similar to that for
Uber and Lyft, and that
investors should be willing to
pay $2 trillion today for the
winning platforms.1..." Read
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Hmmmm... This is a
combination of
Click-bait and
Half-baked. Yes, cost
of $0.25 per person
mile is a
reasonable value at
scale with 2.0
person miles served by
each vehicle mile
(Average vehicle
occupancy (AVO) >
2.0. (vehicle mile
costs of
~ $0.50).
Scale
happening by 2024 is
VERY optimistic! The
big question is what
fare will achieve
scale? Average fare of
$0.50 per person mile
may be achievable if the
systems are welcoming,
safe and anxiety-free.
The chance of that
occurring at scale
(Serving 10% of the
nation's daily person
trips (100M person
trips/day using, 500M
person miles/day
delivered by 2M million
vehicles in operation))
by 2024 is essentially
zero. Even 1% of person
trips is optimistic
.
By 2030 maybe, but only
if there are no bumps on
the road ahead. Each
bump in the road (crash
generating safety
concerns, for example)
probably delays
everything by 5 years
per event. It is
unlikely that Waymo will
have the 82,000 cars
that they have the
option to buy operating
driverlessly (without
attendant) by 2024.
(The cost of these
systems with a safety
driver on-board is at
least twice that of a
conventional taxi
(>$7.00/vehicle
mile.) However, once
the 10% person trip
share is achieved,
$0.50/passenger mile
could generate nice
"profits" of ~$125M per
day or ~$50B per year.
Not bad. Alain
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Jersey City’s on-demand
public bus service is up
and running for as cheap as
$1 per ride
J. Heinis, Feb 25, "Jersey
City’s on-demand public bus
service is up and running for
as cheap as $1 per ride and
will remain at that price
through March 21st for anyone
willing to try an alternative
to rideshares like Uber and
Lyft...." Read
more
Hmmmm... How much
will it be after March
21. Where will the
subsidy come from??? Alain
C'mon Man! (These folks didn't get/read the memo)
There
are so many bad articles.
I'm overwhelmed. C'mon
Man! Alain
Sunday Supplement
Half-Baked
Click-Bait
Calendar of Upcoming Events:
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Recent Podcasts
Smart
Driving Cars Podcat Episode 143
- T. Bolat
Smart
Driving Cars Podcat Episode 142
- J. Hughes
Smart
Driving Cars Podcat 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 134
- With Stephanie Lemcke GoKid
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 133
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 130
with Dick Mudge & Michael
Sena
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
126 - Sturges & Caudill
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
123 - K. Kolodge JD Power
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
121 - Ken Pyle
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
118 - Michael Sena
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
98- Matt Daus
April 5, F. Fishkin, "Here comes congestion pricing in New York City...but what will it mean? Former city Taxi and Limousine Commission head and transportation expert Matthew Daus joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin. Also...Tesla, VW and even Brexit! All on Episode 98 of Smart Driving Cars."
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode
97 - Michael Sena'69
March 28, F. Fishkin, "The Future Networked Car? From Sweden, The Dispatcher publisher, Michael Sena, joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin for the latest edition of Smart Driving Cars. Plus ...the Boeing story has much to do with autonomous vehicles and more. Tune in and subscribe."
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 82
- Intel,
Sciarappo & Jitsik, Loeb
F. Fishkin, Jan.
9, "One of the top chip makers in
the world and a start up. Intel's
strategic marketing director for
autonomous driving Jill Sciarappo
and the founder of Jitsik, Dr.
Helen Loeb join co-hosts Alain
Kornhauser of Princeton University
and Fred Fishkin for Episode 82 of
the Smart Driving Cars podcast
from CES."
Smart
Driving Cars Podcast Episode 81
- nVIDIA,
Shapiro & Local Motors
/ Olli, Hodge
F. Fishkin, Jan.
9, "How NVIDIA is paving the way
for self driving cars and a new
OLLI automated transport from
Local Motors. NVIDIA's Senior
Director for Automotive, Danny
Shapiro and Kurtis Hodge of Local
Motors join co-hosts Alain
Kornhauser of Princeton University
and Fred Fishkin for another
edition of Smart Driving Cars from
CES 2019.."
Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 75 - PAVE; Nantel, Erlich, Riccobono
F. Fishkin, Jan. 9, "From CES in Las Vegas, a new industry organization, PAVE, is formed. Partners for Automated Vehicle Education. And some founding members join co-hosts Alain Kornhauser of Princeton University and Fred Fishkin for an on site discussion. Guests include National Safety Council VP Kelly Nantel, Voyage VP Justin Erlich and National Federation of the Blind President Mark Riccobono."
Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 71-Nader'55
F. Fishkin, Dec. 13, "When it comes to self driving cars, Ralph Nader says "Not so fast." The renowned political activist and author takes the government and the industry to task in a super sized Episode 71 of the Smart Driving Cars Podcast. Join Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin for that and more!"Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 69 - Chunka Mui
F. Fishkin, Nov 29, "What will it take for driverless vehicles to become a leading form of transportation? Futurist and author Chunka Mui joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin for Episode 69 of the Smart Driving Cars podcast. Plus...Waymo, GM, Amazon and more. Tune in and subscribe! "Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 68 - Dick Mudge
F. Fishkin, Nov 22, "The insurance industry hears about the outlook for automated vehicles. Co-author Dick Mudge joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin for Episode 68 of the Smart Driving Cars podcast. Plus...Uber, GM Cruise, Waymo, VW and more. Tune in and subscribe!"Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 66 - Bishop & Zimmerman
F. Fishkin, Nov 8, "Daimler is partnering with Bosch to bring an autonomous ride hailing service to San Jose next year. In this edition, the Director of Engineering at Bosch joins Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin to outline how it will work. Plus Richard Bishop joins us fresh from an International Task Force on Vehicle Highway Automation in Denmark. And more!"Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 65 - Bernard Soriano, CA DMV
F. Fishkin, Nov 1, "California gives Waymo the green light for fully driverless vehicle testing on public roads and the state's deputy director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, Bernard Soriano, joins the Smart Driving Cars podcast with the no nonsense details. Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and co-host Fred Fishkin explore that and more. Tune in and subscribe!"Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 58-Keith Code, Motorcycles
F. Fishkin, Sept 22 "In this edition of the Smart Driving Cars Podcast, Alain Kornhauser of Princeton University and co-host Fred Fishkin are joined by the founder of the Superbike School, Keith Code. Keith is an instructor, coach, author and researcher into motorcycle safety...and a champion racer. Beyond that....he's an old high school friend of Alain's! And there's more on BMW, Apple, VW and more! . Tune in and subscribe!"Smart Driving Cars Podcast Episode 55-Larry Burns, Autonomy
F. Fishkin, Sept 6, "The coming new world of driverless cars! In Episode 55 of the Smart Driving Cars podcast former GM VP and adviser to Waymo Larry Burns chats with Princeton's Alain Kornhauser and Fred Fishkin about his new book "Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car and How it Will Reshape Our World"
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Grants Nuro
Exemption
Petition for
Testing
Low-Speed
Driverless
Vehicle
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
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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
Friday, January 31, 2020
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Hyundai Sonata
stars in Super
Bowl ad all
about 'Smaht
Pahk'
S. Szymkowski,
Jan 27,
"Hyundai is
going all in
on Boston
accents and
the 2020
Sonata for its
Super Bowl
advertisement.
As is often
the trend
these days,
the ad made
its debut on
Monday less
than a week
before the big
game, but it's
quite a clever
spot...." Read
more
Hmmmm...
This is as
irresponsible
of Hyundai as
StupidSummon
is for Tesla.
It may even be
more
irresponsible
because
Hyundai hasn't
included the
over-the-air-information
system that
allows them to
monitor its
use. Having
the car do
stuff without
an alert and
attentive
driver in the
driver's seat
implies
liability on
them (their
system) if
something bad
happens.
Plus,
squeezing a
car into a
parking place
when the
people can't
get into the
adjacent cars
is not the
smartest move
unless you've
also made the
Hyundai key
proof.
There will be
retaliation.
Alain
Friday, January 24, 2020
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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? AlainFriday, January 18, 2020
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Intel’s
Mobileye has a
plan to
dominate
self-driving—and
it might work
T. 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
Sunday,
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
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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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Fate of
Self-Driving Cars
Hangs on a $7
Trillion Design
Problem
Saturday, November 30, 2019
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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
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width="110"
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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
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at Tesla
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Update on the Outlook
for Automated Vehicle
Systems
Friday, Oct 25, 2019
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Elon
Musk: Tesla Full
Self-Driving in early
access this year,
without supervision next
year
Friday, October 18, 2019
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Waymo
to customers:
“Completely driverless
Waymo cars are on the
way”
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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
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Waymo’s
robotaxi pilot surpassed 6,200
riders in its first month in
California
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Vehicles: A View from
Seniors
Friday, August 9, 2019
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Cruise
postpones plan to launch
driverless taxi service in 2019
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Tesla’s
autonomy event: Impressive
progress with an unrealistic
timeline
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.
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Vehicles
Feb 25, " This workshop brought
together experts in cyber-physical
systems, machine learning,
transportation engineering, and
applied mathematics, both from
academia and from industry, to
help bridge the technical gaps and
to facilitate exchange and
collaboration across disciplinary
boundaries..." Read
more
Hmmmm.... Slides
and videos of
the
presentations
are available
here. In
particular,
see..:
- Andrea Censi: "Liability, Ethics, and Culture-Aware Behavior Specification using Rulebooks" Abstract, Slides, video (via click on Schedule 11:30 Monday;
- Adam Oberman:"Generalization and adversarial robustness of Regularized Deep Neural Networks " Abstract, Slides, video (via click on Schedule 11:30 Tuesday);
- Alain Kornhauser: "Market Forces and Market Potential for SmartDrivingCars (aka Autonomous Vehicles) " Slides, video, (via click on Schedule 11:15 Tuesday);
- Hani Mahmassani: "Shared Autonomous Fleet Services and Multimodal Urban Mobility: Optimization, Prediction and Dynamic Network Modeling " Abstract, video, (via click on Schedule 4:00 Thursday);
Friday,
February 15, 2019
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Facing
opposition, Amazon scraps New
York HQ2 plans
Thursday,
November 22, 2018
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Framework and Outlook for
Automated Vehicle Systems
Thursday,
November 1, 2018
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A
Green Light for Waymo’s
Driverless Testing in California
Wednesday,
October 24, 2018
New Jersey Pending Legislation re: Autonomous Vehicles
Oct 16, Establishes
fully autonomous vehicle pilot
program A4573 Sponsors:
Zwicker (D16); Benson (D14)
Oct 16, Establishes
New
Jersey Advanced Autonomous
Vehicle Task Force AJR164
Sponsors: Benson (D14); Zwicker
(D16); Lampitt (D6)
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of Alain Kornhauser, Assembly
Science, Innovation and
Technology - Monday, October 22,
2018 - 10:00:00 AM
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Audio
Recording of Assembly Science,
Innovation and Technology -
Monday, October 22, 2018 -
10:00:00 AM
Friday, June 15, 2018
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
CPUC AUTHORIZES PASSENGER CARRIERS TO PROVIDE FREE TEST RIDES IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WITH VALID CPUC AND DMV PERMITS
Sunday, June 3, 2018
Waymo’s
fleet of self-driving minivans
is about to get 100 times bigger
Friday, May 25, 2018
PRELIMINARY REPORT: HIGHWAY: HWY18MH010 (Uber/Herzberg Crash)
May 24, "About
9:58 p.m., on Sunday, March 18,
2018, an Uber Technologies, Inc.
test vehicle, based on a
modified 2017 Volvo XC90 and
operating with a self-driving
system in computer control mode,
struck a pedestrian on
northbound Mill Avenue, in
Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona.
...The vehicle
was factory equipped with
several advanced driver
assistance functions by Volvo
Cars, the original manufacturer.
The systems included a collision
avoidance function with
automatic emergency
braking, known as City Safety,
as well as functions for
detecting driver alertness and
road sign information. All these
Volvo functions are disabled
when the test vehicle is
operated in computer control..."
Read more Hmmmm....
Uber must believe that
its systems are better
at avoiding Collisions
and Automated Emergency
Braking than Volvo's.
At least this gets Volvo
"off the hook".
"...According
to data obtained from the
self-driving system, the
system first registered
radar and LIDAR observations
of the pedestrian about 6
seconds before impact, when
the vehicle was traveling at
43 mph..." (=
63 feet/second) So
the system started
"seeing an obstacle
when it was 63 x 6 =
378 feet away...
more than a football
field, including end
zones!
"...As
the vehicle and pedestrian
paths converged, the
self-driving system software
classified the pedestrian as
an unknown object, as a
vehicle, and then as a
bicycle with varying
expectations of future
travel path..."
(NTSB:
Please tell us
precisely when
it classified
this "object' as
a vehicle
and be explicit
about the
expected "future
travel paths." Forget
the path, please just
tell us the precise
velocity vector that
Uber's system attached
to the "object", then
the "vehicle". Why
didn't the the Uber
system instruct the
Volvo to begin to slow
down (or speed up) to
avoid a collision? If
these paths (or velocity
vectors) were not
accurate, then why
weren't they accurate?
Why was the object
classified as a
"Vehicle" ??
When did it finally
classify the object as a
"bicycle"? Why
did it change
classifications? How
often was the
classification of this
object done. Please
divulge the time and the
outcome of each
classification of this
object.
In the tests that
Uber has done, how
often has the system
mis-classified an
object as a "pedestrian"when
the object was
actually an
overpass, or an
overhead sign or
overhead
branches/leaves
that the car
could safely
pass under, or
was nothing at
all??
(Basically, what
are the false
alarm
characteristics
of Uber's
Self-driving
sensor/software
system as a
function of
vehicle speed
and
time-of-day?)
"...At 1.3 seconds before impact, (impact speed was 39mph = 57.2 ft/sec) the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision" (1.3 x 57.2 = 74.4 ft. which is about equal to the braking distance. So it still could have stopped short.
"...According
to Uber,
emergency
braking
maneuvers are not
enabled while
the vehicle is
under computer
control, to
reduce (eradicate??)
the potential
for erratic
vehicle
behavior.
..." NTSB: Please describe/define potential and erratic vehicle
behavior Also
please uncover
and divulge
the design
& decision
process that
Uber went
through to
decide that
this risk
(disabling the
AEB) was worth
the reward of
eradicating "
"erratic vehicle behavior". This
is
fundamentally
BAD design.
If the Uber
system's false
alarm rate is
so large that
the best way
to deal with
false alarms
is to turn off
the AEB, then
the system
should never
have been
permitted on
public
roadways.
"...The vehicle operator
is relied on
to intervene
and take
action. " Wow! If Uber's
system
fundamentally
relies on a
human to
intervene,
then Uber is
nowhere near
creating a
Driverless
vehicle.
Without its
own Driverless
vehicle Uber
is past "Peak
valuation".
Thursday, April 26, 2018
This startup’s CEO wants to open-source self-driving car safety testing
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Experts say video of Uber's self-driving car killing a pedestrian suggests its technology may have fail
Tuesday, April 17, 2017
Don't Worry, Driverless Cars Are Learning From Grand Theft Auto
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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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