Last Week in AI News #66 -- announcing audio digests!
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Last Week in AI News #66 Subscribe for future emails here! Check out our new audio digest! Mini Briefs Americans don’t know why they don’t trust self-driving cars The race towards self-driving cars has been one of the hottest topics in technology in the past few years. Large companies and startups, from Google’s Waymo and Lyft’s Level 5 to Argo AI and Aurora, have all been throwing brainpower and compute at the problem of developing cars that can operate safely in traffic without a driver. The task is truly difficult and the road has been bumpy, with such hiccups as a fatal accident in Tempe, Arizona, involving a self-driving Uber car that hit and struck a woman. In the light of stories such as Uber’s, the clear technical difficulties, and the moral issues, it seems unsurprising that the general public might be less than enthusiastic about the idea of self-driving cars. But a study conducted in February and March 2020 on behalf of Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE) found that the mistrust comes from somewhere else. While 48 percent of respondents said they would never get into a self-driving taxi and 20 percent think the technology will never be safe, most respondents were not familiar with the Tempe collision or accidents involving Tesla’s Autopilot feature. Most of the mistrust, according to the study’s results, comes from respondents’ not having a chance to experience the technology first-hand.
Last Week in AI News #66 -- announcing audio digests!
Last Week in AI News #66 -- announcing audio…
Last Week in AI News #66 -- announcing audio digests!
Last Week in AI News #66 Subscribe for future emails here! Check out our new audio digest! Mini Briefs Americans don’t know why they don’t trust self-driving cars The race towards self-driving cars has been one of the hottest topics in technology in the past few years. Large companies and startups, from Google’s Waymo and Lyft’s Level 5 to Argo AI and Aurora, have all been throwing brainpower and compute at the problem of developing cars that can operate safely in traffic without a driver. The task is truly difficult and the road has been bumpy, with such hiccups as a fatal accident in Tempe, Arizona, involving a self-driving Uber car that hit and struck a woman. In the light of stories such as Uber’s, the clear technical difficulties, and the moral issues, it seems unsurprising that the general public might be less than enthusiastic about the idea of self-driving cars. But a study conducted in February and March 2020 on behalf of Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE) found that the mistrust comes from somewhere else. While 48 percent of respondents said they would never get into a self-driving taxi and 20 percent think the technology will never be safe, most respondents were not familiar with the Tempe collision or accidents involving Tesla’s Autopilot feature. Most of the mistrust, according to the study’s results, comes from respondents’ not having a chance to experience the technology first-hand.