How Germany Hopes to Get the Edge in Driverless Technology
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
A new law allows autonomous vehicles in everyday use and provides legal consistency lacking in the United States.
Transportation Applications
A self-driving truck delivered butter from California to Pennsylvania in three days
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A Silicon Valley startup has completed what appears to be the first commercial freight cross-country trip by an autonomous truck, which finished a 2,800-mile-run from Tulare, California to Quakertown, Pennsylvania for Land O’Lakes in under three days.
Tesla's Autopilot Could Save the Lives of Millions but it Will Kill Some People First
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
As Tesla's get into the hands of more consumers, the ethics of auto-pilot decision-making is put into question.
Report: Software bug led to death in Uber’s self-driving crash
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The fatal crash that killed pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, occurred because of a software bug in Uber's self-driving car technology.
Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life?
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article Video || Medium (5-10 min)
The United States military is trying to come to terms with the fact that advanced technology is on the cusp of making it possible for machines like armed drones to make killing decisions.
The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Ideally, ethics, law, and policy would line up, but often they don’t in the real world. Should we trust robotic cars to share our road, just because they are programmed to obey the law and avoid crashes?
Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Ford and other companies say the industry overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles, which still struggle to anticipate what other drivers and pedestrians will do.
The Long Road to Self-Driving Trucks
|| Transportation Applications || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
Moral Machine
Transportation Applications || Simulation || Short (5 min or less)
A platform for public participation in discussion of the human perspective on machine-made moral decisions. A simulation that allows participants to make moral decisions an self-driving car may have to make and see where they align compared to others.