Do you trust driverless cars? Following a number of high-profile incidents, the industry's main lobbying group says autonomous vehicle (AV) operators need to win back the trust of the public for the industry to survive. But @theverge asks, is it all too late?
Am Wochenende fand die Jahrestagung des AK ehemals verfolgter und inhaftierter Sozialdemokraten (#AvS) in #Hamburg statt.
Die Beschäftigung mit der Geschichte macht noch einmal klar, wie früh man schon keine echte Chance mehr gegen die Nazis hatte und wie schnell die "Das Bollwerk Preußen" und Demokratie und Rechtsstaat insgesamt abgeräumt haben.
Zwischen 1928 und 1930 gab es noch eine Chance. Danach nicht mehr.
#Histodon: Die Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises der ehemals verfolgten und inhaftierten Sozialdemokraten (AvS) findet am 22.+23. März 2024 in Hamburg statt.
Alle, die sich für die Geschichte des Widerstands interessieren, sind da herzlich eingeladen.
#AVs#DriverlessCars#SelfdrivingCars#SiliconValley#AI: "AllOver’s new rideshare service boasts driverless cars (called “CRs”), but the reality is more sinister—instead, contractors like Teresa operate the vehicles while hiding inside a secret compartment. Clinging to the job for financial security, Teresa drives around the clock, witnesses disturbing incidents inside her vehicle, and loses herself in the ouroboros of AllOver’s bureaucracy. Wrong Way is a chilling portrait of economic precarity, and a disturbing reminder of how attempts to optimize life and work only leave us all more alienated than ever before.
McNeil Zoomed with Esquire from her home in Los Angeles to discuss the rise of AI, the uphill battle of life under capitalism, and the gap between Silicon Valley's words and actions. This interview has been edited for length and clarity."
#Cruise#BigTech#AVs#DriverlessCars#SelfDrivingCars#AutonomousVehicles: "In an internal address on Slack to his employees about the suspension, Vogt stuck to his message: “Safety is at the core of everything we do here at Cruise.” Days later, the company said it would voluntarily pause fully driverless rides in Phoenix and Austin, meaning its fleet will be operating only with human supervision: a flesh-and-blood backup to the artificial intelligence.
Even before its public relations crisis of recent weeks, though, previously unreported internal materials such as chat logs show Cruise has known internally about two pressing safety issues: Driverless Cruise cars struggled to detect large holes in the road and have so much trouble recognizing children in certain scenarios that they risked hitting them. Yet, until it came under fire this month, Cruise kept its fleet of driverless taxis active, maintaining its regular reassurances of superhuman safety.
“This strikes me as deeply irresponsible at the management level to be authorizing and pursuing deployment or driverless testing, and to be publicly representing that the systems are reasonably safe,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor and engineer who studies automated driving."
#AVs#DriverlessCars#SelfDrivingCars#AutonomousVehicles: "Superficial accounts of self-driving cars suggest a ‘race’ to ‘solve’ a singular ‘autonomy’. Behind the scenes, AV developers have different aims, emphasizing different attachments and targeting different niches. Alongside the possibility of consolidation to a few dominant players, there will also be differentiation as AV companies jostle to attach themselves to the world for competitive advantage. Optimistically, we might conclude that the social constitution of the autonomous vehicle is not yet set. But it remains to be seen whether the technology’s developers will break free from the narrative of autonomy or further entangle society within its effects."
#TSA#TDAH#DYS#handicap
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Si vous vous posez la question, la réponse ici : https://www.mobilisation-inclusion.org/
et si vous estimez que oui c'est un problème, n'hésitez pas à signer la pétition et à partager
New study cites widespread "over-hype" about autonomous vehicles: "The results provided empirical evidence for regulating propaganda about AV technology."
#Cars#RoadSafety#AVs#SelfDrivingCars: "A recent tweet from Matt Farah got the Jalopnik staff thinking about this. A system that’s 99.9-percent reliable sounds nearly perfect, but in reality, that 0.1-percent error rate is enormous.
So how good does a fully autonomous vehicle need to be in order to be safer than a human driver? As Jalopnik’s resident mathematician, figuring this out fell to me — and to data pulled from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
According to NHTSA, Americans drove 2,903,622,000,000 miles in 2021. That’s nearly three trillion miles, many of which were likely the sort of boring, uneventful highway driving where current Level 2 driver-assistance systems excel. American human drivers crashed 5,250,837 times in 2021 — once every 552,983 miles traveled.
Here’s how the numbers break down for human drivers in America:"
#California#SanFrancisco#DriverlessCars#Cruise#Waymo#AVs: "For the time being, San Francisco residents are in suspense. Cruise’s and Waymo’s driverless cars will compete with medallion taxis and Uber and Lyft. They will likely contribute to congestion, and continue to have near-misses and close calls with cyclists, pedestrians, and other vehicles. To date, there have been about five hundred driverless cars in San Francisco, and they already feel ubiquitous; it’s easy to imagine more of them scrolling up and down the city’s streets. At around eleven o’clock on the night after the C.P.U.C. vote, videos of a traffic jam in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood began circulating on X, the social-media platform formerly known as Twitter. North Beach is an older neighborhood with many narrow one-way streets, often crowded with people visiting restaurants, bars, and strip clubs. The videos showed at least six driverless Cruise cars stalled at an intersection, creating a cluttered, chaotic snarl. The delays, a spokesperson later explained on X, were caused by a wireless-connectivity issue, created by Outside Lands, a large music festival that was happening on the other side of the city. After fifteen minutes, the cars re-started. (The San Francisco Examiner later reported that the jam was actually caused by a pedestrian who intentionally interfered with one of Cruise’s robo-taxis.) On Thursday night, a driverless Cruise car, carrying a passenger, collided with a fire truck. “One of our cars entered the intersection on a green light and was struck by an emergency vehicle that appeared to be en route to an emergency scene,” a statement from Cruise, posted to the company’s corporate X account, read, raising the possibility that the A.V. did not yield to the emergency vehicle, as a human driver likely would have. “We are investigating to better understand our AVs performance, and will be in touch with the City of San Francisco about the event.”" https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/robo-taxis-are-legal-now