I want one.
Connie
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On Behalf Of Vickie
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Subject: [ourplace] Re: FW: Giving a voice to driverless vehicles; Startup
aims to solve how autonomous cars will communicate with humans
Well, I want to drive one, and I think that's what Rosie was talking about.
I tried to apply for Google's driverless car testing they were and maybe
still are, doing here in Phoenix. You get paid $20 an hour, and all that
sounded good, but you had to have a bachelor's degree. Tell me why. Seems
like you only have to know the laws of driving in order to drive the thing.
Duane would be with me and it just seemed so petty to have to have a degree.
Of course, I don't have a degree, so couldn't apply. So, now I guess Tessla
and other companies are doing the same thing. Even Uber has self-driving
vehicles. So, I want one, but especially right now, can't afford such a
thing. I guess they're not for sale to the general public until 2020 at
least anyway. So, I'll let you know then whether I can afford one.
Everyone is getting in the driverless car business. They already sell cars
that will parallel park for you, and break, if it sees an accident is about
to happen, so they're working toward it slowly in the current auto business.
Vickie
From: Linda Gehres <mailto:ljgehres@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2016 11:17 PM
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Subject: [ourplace] Re: FW: Giving a voice to driverless vehicles; Startup
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There was something in the article which mentioned the company's giving
sounds to cars like these so pedestrians would have a better chance of
crossing streets safely with them around.
Linda G.
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Sent: Friday, September 02, 2016 10:57 PM
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Subject: [ourplace] Re: FW: Giving a voice to driverless vehicles; Startup
aims to solve how autonomous cars will communicate with humans
Hi, Linda,
If these cars only use visual communication with humans, that's not gonna
help the blind in any way.
Rosie
On 9/2/2016 7:59 PM, Linda Gehres wrote:
Giving a voice to driverless vehicles; Startup aims to solve how autonomous
cars will communicate with humans
Giving a voice to driverless vehicles; Startup aims to solve how autonomous
cars will communicate with humans
John Markoff The New York Times
<http://newspapers.web.ca/news/nr/en/The%20Toronto%20Star> The Toronto Star
, Sept. 2, 2016
There are plenty of unanswered questions about how self-driving cars would
function in the real world, such as understanding local driving customs and
handing controls back to a human in an emergency.
Now, a startup called Drive.ai, based in Mountain View, Calif., is trying to
address how an autonomous car would communicate with other drivers and
pedestrians.
The company is emphasizing what is known in the artificial intelligence
field as "human-machine interaction" as a key to confusing road situations.
How does a robot, for example, tell everyone what it plans to do in
intersections when human drivers and people in crosswalks go through an
informal ballet to decide who will go first and who will yield?
"Most people's first interaction with self-driving cars will not be as a
rider, but more likely as a pedestrian crossing the street," said Carol
Reiley, co-founder and president of Drive.ai.
"I think it is so important for everyone to trust this type of technology."
The startup gained some attention earlier this year when it received a
licence from the state of California to test driverless cars on the road.
But this week was the first time its executives outlined, at least in broad
terms, what they planned to do. They would not discuss the company's
investors.
The Drive.ai cars won't speak with pedestrians and icyclists. But they will
try to communicate with visual displays that go beyond today's turn signals,
perhaps with bannerlike text and easily identifiable sounds, company
officials said.
The company, populated by graduate students and researchers from the
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is entering a crowded field in
the race to self-driving vehicles. There are about 20 self-driving car
projects in Silicon Valley and more than four dozen around the country.
Unlike many of the efforts, however, Drive.ai will not attempt to build
cars.
Instead, it plans to retrofit commercial fleets for tasks such as parcel
delivery and taxi services.
The company is leaning on a technology called deep learning, a
machine-learning technique that has gained wide popularity among Silicon
Valley firms.
It is used for a variety of tasks, such as understanding human speech and
improving the ability to recognize objects in computer vision systems.
An Israeli firm, Mobileye, is the dominant supplier of vision technology to
the automotive industry, but Silicon Valley companies such as Nvidia are
also starting to compete for that business.
The self-driving cars of the future will need to be transparent about what
their intentions are, how they make decisions and what they see, said
Reiley, who is a roboticist with a background in designing underwater
robotics and medical systems.
They will need to communicate clearly, both with the world around them as
well as with their passengers.
"There's the left brain in which a lot of discussion has taken place, what
algorithms and what sensors, the logical side," she said.
"A lot of the discussion around self-driving cars has no human component,
which is really weird because this is the first time a robotic system is
going out in the world and interacting with people."
