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01.25.08

Who pays for insurance with autonomous vehicles? CSE in the News | (0)
http://www.designnews.com/article/CA6519363.html With the recent completion of the Urban Challenge by several vehicles, GM has decided that it was time to bring the robot-driven vehicle to the public. The goal is to have the self-driven vehicle available for purchase in 2018 – 10 years from now. To demonstrate the ability of autonomous vehicles, GM brought the winner of the Urban Challenge to the recent Computer Electronics Show and allowed attendees to ride along in the vehicle. Showcasing the vehicle's response to "unexpected" events, the GM team placed a few trash cans in the road and drove other vehicles in its path. Having driven ...
01.04.08

The role of the human in “autonomous” systems CSE Blog | (0)
Recently we engaged in a very animated discussion with a major system developer working on Autonomous Combat Vehicles. (Lots of different acronyms here: UAV-unmanned air vehicle; USV-unmanned submersible vehicle, etc. but the themes are the same -"eliminate the human error and risk to humans by automating.") When I opened the meeting with "your vehicles aren't autonomous at all" you can imagine the reaction. Their point: there was no human aboard, therefore it's autonomous. Our point: in order to actually employ the system, it takes typically many humans working with the forward deployed ("autonomous") ...

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