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It is no wonder that Electric cars are the future and the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, is doubling down on this thought. Recently, during the Tesla Annual Shareholder meeting on Tuesday, Musk called it “financially insane” to buy a gas powered car instead of an electric car that isn’t capable of autonomous driving. Is […]
Taking further steps in its autonomous car venture, Cupertino tech major Apple is likely to take over the self-driving company Drive.ai. According to a report by The Information, Apple’s collaboration with Drive.ai, which is referred to as ‘acqui-hire’ is expected to see a shift in dozens of Drive.ai’s employees to Apple. For those who don’t know, […]
In one of its kind accident involving two ‘smart’ robots, a Tesla S autonomous car hit and destroyed a Promobot v4 robot in Las Vegas where CES 2019 is undergoing. Promobot v4 is an autonomous robot designed with the intent of placing them as administrators, hostesses, museum guides, concierges and consultants. These autonomous robots can […]
As a result of a decade-long research and testing, Google’s spinoff Waymo has finally launched the first commercial driverless taxi-service. In a post on Medium, Waymo CEO John Krafcik wrote: “We’ve been focused on building the world’s most experienced driver.” At launch, the members of Waymo’s autonomous taxi programme will be able to book rides […]
Short Bytes: As we advance more and more in artificial intelligence and related technologies, we must solve some complex ethical problems. A similar dilemma is faced in the case of self-driving cars and how they should act in case of unavoidable accidents. Should they kill more people on the road to save the car occupants? […]