Fully autonomous cars competed in the first international edition of the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League in Imola, Italy, on Saturday. The cars have no human drivers and are instead driven completely by AI. CNN’s Ivana Scatola was there to watch the action.
The two-seat vehicles are designed to operate without a human driver and have no steering wheel, brake pedal, accelerator pedal or conventional mirrors.
If you read social media, all you will hear is gloom, anger, and outrage bait because, unfortunately, our primitive brains LOVE THAT STUFF.
We may think we want to see sweet little puppies and hear good news, but every time that gets tested in the real world against “It’s over for us,” and “Can you believe that guy you don’t like said this outrageous thing?” the puppies are not the ones getting all the clicks. But is all this sea of negative, black-pilled, “We have no hope,” spin you hear in so many places realistic… or not? If we’re being honest, there’s never a simple answer to that. Every person, group, and country has some dark days. The Roman Empire was the greatest empire in all of recorded history, but imagine being them when the Gauls sacked Rome in 390 BC, when Hannibal killed more than 50,000 Roman soldiers on their own soil at the Battle of…Open
Breakthroughs in AI are fueling hopes that more data and smarter models can provide a shortcut to self-driving vehicles. Waymo, after more than 15 years and 200 million driverless miles, says there is none. Why it matters: The answer could determine whether the AV race is a long, expensive slog that rewards Waymo's head start — or a new track that lets newer rivals hit the road faster. Driving the news: Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo's vice president of onboard software, said in an exclusive interview with Axios that it takes more than just better AI to safely deploy AVs at scale. - Waymo's goal from the start, he said, has been "demonstrably safe AI." But a growing reliance from competitors on single "end-to-end" AI systems introduces…
As Waymo deploys more driverless cars to 15 U.S. cities and counting, its vehicles keep encountering new and unexpected situations that they have no script to handle.
Restrictions should be cemented as Waymo seeks to buy Chinese cars for the U.S., Gordon Chang says.
U.S. - Autonomous car giant Waymo introduced a new "Islam Mode" for passengers to select that will direct the car to mow down as many civilians as possible.
Two 15-year-olds were allegedly drinking alcohol and shooting toy guns from a driverless taxi when the company disabled it and alerted police.
Autonomous cabs are coming to more cities as Waymo, Tesla and Uber have announced plans to expand service. NewsNation’s Rich Bodee has the details.
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