self driving cars

artificial intelligenceBuilding a Better Driver #TCRobotics

April 18, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Autonomous vehicles can't be as good as human drivers. They need to be better. Aurora co-founder and CPO Sterling Anderson and Uber ATG Chief scientist Raquel Urtasun dig into the self-driving stack and how AI is used to help vehicles …
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carsTesla Autopilot Needs Big Progress to Reach Full Self-driving

April 15, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Self-driving car expert Brad Templeton does not believe that Tesla is close to having its software ready for full self-driving cars. Brad has lengthy assessment of the current capabilities of the Tesla Autopilot. Brad feels that the Autopilot needs improvements …
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businessEconomic Impact of Self-driving Trucks

April 15, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Trucks are the backbone of the supply-chain delivery system. 70% of goods are delivered by truck. The U.S. trucking industry generated $700.3 billion in economic activity in 2017. Self-driving trucks will revolutionize logistics. It can bring down the cost by …
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artificial intelligenceTencent Keen Security Lab Tricks Tesla Autopilot into Oncoming Traffic

April 1, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Tesla Autopilot recognizes lanes and assists control by identifying road traffic markings. Tencent Keen Labs proved that by placing interference stickers on the road, the Autopilot system will capture this information and make an abnormal judgment, which causes the vehicle …
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artificial intelligenceGetting Autonomous Cars Ready for the Road #emtechdigital

March 25, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Dmitri Dolgov is the CTO and VP of Engineering, Waymo. Dmitri briefly reviewed the self-driving car work ten to 15 years ago from the DARPA grand challenge to today. They initially chose 10 driving routes and driving about 100,000 miles …
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artificial intelligenceFuture of AI and Security #emTechDigital

March 25, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Dawn Song Professor, UC Berkeley; Founder and CEO, Oasis Labs Future of AI and Security Dawn is talking about AI-powered DDOS cyber attacks. Machine Learning in the Presence of the Attacker Cyber attacks upon AI. It can attack the integrity …
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artificial intelligenceAI Chips for Self Driving Cars Will a Be $10 Billion Market by 2024

March 6, 2019 | Christina Wong |
 
Wave Computing AI-enabled MIPS chips will support 80% of the self-driving and advanced driver assisted systems. The Automotive Artificial Intelligence Market is expected to reach over $10 Billion by 2024 with a CAGR of over 35 percent. Wave has a …
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artificial intelligenceTesla AI Chip Claimed to be Twenty Times Faster than Nvidia

February 25, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Elon Musk indicates that a new Tesla AI chip is twenty times faster than Nvidia GPUs for AI. Tesla has a patent for an accelerated mathematical engine for performing complex convolution operations based on matrix multiply operations. Elon Musk indicates …
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carsSelf-driving Cars, Traffic and Parking Problems

February 6, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Self-driving cars should be able to solve traffic and parking problems. However, this requires that most self-driving cars are used with ride-sharing to maximize the useful rides per car and to reduce the amount of parking that is needed. Adam …
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batteriesTesla Will Multiply Car Sales with new Pickup Truck, Self-Driving and Model Y

February 1, 2019 | Brian Wang |
 
Tesla plans to go to multiples of Model 3 with the Model Y, Tesla Pickup truck and self-driving cars. They project the Model Y production and demand will be 50% more than Model 3 and could end up being double. …
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