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Experts: Tesla’s Plans to Launch a Robotaxi Network Are Nonsense

Elon Being Elon During Monday’s “Autonomy Investor Day,” Elon Musk said he expects Tesla to have more than 1 million autonomous robotaxis on the road in 2020. Wall Street’s response: Yeah, right. “The Tesla Network robotaxi plans seemed half baked,” Cowen’s analyst Jeffrey Osborne wrote in a note to investors, according to a CNBC report, “with

Hot Mess

Expert: AI-Generated Music Is A “Total Legal Clusterf*ck”

AI-Generated Music If you train a music-generating artificial intelligence exclusively on tracks by Beyoncé, do you owe the pop star a cut of any resulting songs’ profits? And is it even legal to use copyrighted songs to train an AI in the first place? Those are just a couple of the questions The Verge poses

Share The Road

China’s Rolling Out Dedicated Highway Lanes for Self-Driving Cars

Keep Left In a bid to lead the race to fully-autonomous vehicles, China is building highways with dedicated lanes for self-driving cars. A new 62-mile stretch of freeway will have two lanes dedicated to autonomous vehicles (AVs), according to FutureCar. The idea is that the infrastructure investment will give AVs access to real-world traffic conditions —

Hands-Free Conversation

A Self-Driving Car’s Human Operator Says He Takes Over When Passengers Get Impatient

Out Run Right now, almost all self-driving cars are supervised by a human safety driver sitting behind the wheel. Futurism previously reported that drivers working for Waymo One, the autonomous ride-hailing service, are told to stay quiet. But now, Joe VanOflen, the operations lead at self-driving car startup Drive.ai, told Popular Science how he approaches working

Road Regrets

Expert: In 50 Years, Self-Driving Cars Will Be “Unthinkable”

Drivers Wanted The general consensus among experts is we’re headed toward a future in which humans driving cars will seem downright archaic. In a new Vox essay, New York University data journalism professor Meredith Broussard disagrees. She thinks the era of the autonomous car is far from inevitable, and not because researchers won’t be able to perfect the

Tesla's Hearse

A Sticker Can Trick Teslas Into Steering Toward Oncoming Traffic

One Job Tesla’s Autopilot mode might have something of a deathwish. By attaching just three small stickers to the road that are nearly invisible to a human driver, researchers from Chinese tech corporation Tencent managed to trick the AI of a Tesla Model S 75 into steering towards oncoming traffic, according to the researchers’ report — a worrisome glimpse

Autonomous Donuts

Watch a Self-Driving Car Careen Around Corners Like a Racecar

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Autonomous Racer Engineers at Stanford University in California figured a way to teach a self-driving car how to make high-speed turns, like a racecar. While that sounds like an inherently unsafe maneuver, the engineers’ findings could end up making passenger-oriented driverless vehicles safer, according to New Scientist, in case they have to swerve suddenly to avoid a collision.

Drivers Wanted

This Startup Pays Humans to Remotely Operate “Driverless” Cars

Take the Wheel Even today’s most advanced autonomous vehicles (AVs) can’t navigate roads with the same ease as human drivers. Sure, they might do fine on a long stretch of highway, but the vehicles often falter in the face of inclement weather, unpredictable pedestrians, or even birds and shadows. Now, Oregon-based startup Designated Driver has created a system, according

Dangerous Autonomy

Video Shows Tesla Autopilot Steering Toward Highway Barriers

Crash Cam New dashcam footage shows a Tesla Model 3, with Autopilot switched on, veering towards a highway divider. The video, recorded Tuesday and shared to Reddit on Wednesday, shows the Tesla’s semi-autonomous Autopilot mode correctly avoiding the divider several times before a final run where the car steers toward the metal barrier so severely that

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Meet Lunewave: URBAN-X Alumni Leading the Advancement of Autonomous Vehicles

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