autonomous vehicles Archives

AI Today Podcast #37: Life with Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles

May 16, 2018May 16, 2018

Ever wonder how fully autonomous vehicles at Level 5 on the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) classification will impact your life? How will the way you live, work, interact socially, and care for the needy, disabled and elderly change when vehicles that can drive themselves safely from point to point and be beckoned at any …

How Autonomous Vehicles Fit into our AI-Enabled Future

May 2, 2018May 2, 2018

Have you ever dreamed of the day where your car could drive for itself freeing you to do other things, such as reading, catching up on emails, watching a movie, or sleeping rather than focus on the road while in the car? Automotive manufacturers and transportation technology vendors are rapidly progressing us to that goal. …

AI Today Podcast #29: The First Autonomous Vehicle Fatality — Now What?

March 21, 2018March 21, 2018

On Sunday, March 18, 2018, an autonomous Uber vehicle operating in autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian crossing the road — the first fatal autonomous vehicle accident on a public road to occur. We’ve now crossed the realm from the theoretical of what could happen in this scenario to the reality of the situation …