self-driving cars

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s17e09 2024-02-13 2,423 words · 12 min read What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide … It might even make fewer mistakes than a human, but this again is straying into the “self-driving cars are safer than humans driving cars because humans get …
s07extra02 2019-10-04 2,334 words · 12 min read Some things … There’s a good Washington Post story about how some residents of Silicon Valley aren’t too keen on self-driving cars being beta-tested in their neighborhoods …
s03e11 2016-04-12 1,296 words · 6 min read Gigawatt Laser Array … 2014, so is a bit behind the times by only talking about self-driving cars, tiny fusion reactors (arc reactors, right?), and the whole shtick about "a world …
ep 150 2014-08-26 1,447 words · 7 min read Here In My Car … I imagine that a similar situation might happen with self-driving cars: that we'll always imagine them to be about forty years away, and then wake up …
ep 145 2014-08-19 2,042 words · 10 min read Up To Code; Science Fictional Network Security; Notes on Infrastructure; Response; 2014 (5) … Autonomous, self-driving cars commonly use a range-finding system that uses laser light to provide three hundred and sixty degrees of depth data at up to 15 …
ep 105 2014-06-19 2,882 words · 14 min read This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots … It does it in the long-term where Uber's CEO, Travis Kalanick, admits that of course Uber's future is in self-driving cars. The kind of …
ep 104 2014-06-18 3,088 words · 15 min read The New Jobs; Disrupting Bitcoin; Protect Us; The Full Stack Is Better?; Dumb Screens … We get self-driving cars. We get, gosh, so many things. We get it all! In one place! I wish I had something more constructive to say than …
ep 91 2014-05-30 926 words · 5 min read Disruption; Supply Chains; The Good Bit … First, some data points: - Uber obviously wants to replace all of its drivers with self-driving cars[1] - Google is designing self driving cars / autonomous transport units[2 …
ep 87 2014-05-24 1,646 words · 8 min read Robots; Smart Things; College; Wintermute … now we see that a lot of the smarts in Google's self-driving cars reside in the network - which makes sense - rather than in the car) the …
ep 7 2014-01-31 1,581 words · 8 min read Rate All The Things … remember those self-driving cars? Here's a patent[2] (which, to be fair, doesn't have to be used - it's just been awarded[3]) for an …