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Extra-Scenery Perception (ESP2) for Self-Driving Cars: Beyond the Norm

By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I was driving on a highway in Northern California recently when I saw up ahead of me a wind turbine off the side of the road. I’ve seen modern wind turbines before, but this one caught my eye. I liked the design of it and this one […]

Over-The-Air (OTA) Updating for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Windows updates. You are probably like me in that when you see that it’s time to install Windows updates to your PC it is a moment of internal angst and overall distress. I am betting this flashes through your mind: Should you go ahead and let the […]

Privacy and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Do you care about the privacy of your data? Most of us do, at least when we are asked a question as bluntly as whether we care about the privacy of our data, but the reality of our behavior frequently seems to belie how much we really […]

Socio-Behavioral Conversational Computing for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider With the advent of ride sharing, passengers are increasingly interacting with the hired or rented driver of the car. In the past, we were used to getting into a taxi and other than mumbling where we wanted to be taken, the actual conversation was usually either nonexistent […]

Electric Power Needs of Self-Driving Cars are Problematic

FOR LONGTIME RESIDENTS of Pittsburgh, seeing self-driving cars built by Uber, Argo AI, and others roam their streets is nothing new. The city’s history with robot cars goes back to the late 1980s, when students at Carnegie Mellon University caught the occasional glimpse of a strange vehicle lumbering across campus. The bright-blue Chevy panel van, chugging along at slower than […]

Snow Driving for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I lived in Germany for a year and “fondly” recall one of the most terrifying driving experiences in my life, which involved being on an autobahn in the middle of a snow storm. When I left my apartment in my rented car to head out to work […]

Omnipresence for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider In my college days, we used to drive from Los Angeles up to the Bay Area so that we could watch our football team play against several of our most bitter rivals. The driving time was about six to seven hours and was quite a journey. Me […]

Proving Grounds for AI Self-Driving Cars

When I was in my teens, a good friend of mine offered to teach me how to ride a motorcycle. We started out by riding in his backyard, which offered seclusion and allowed me to make mistakes without anyone else knowing. His backyard was relatively small and so it precluded being able to do any […]

Probabilistic Reasoning for AI Self-Driving Cars

By. Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Trends Insider Is it going to rain tomorrow? If you were to answer that question, would you say that it absolutely positively will rain tomorrow? Or, would you say that it absolutely positively won’t rain tomorrow? Here in Southern California, we only get about 15 days of rain during the […]

Turing Test for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider When my children were young, I used to teach them various games such as checkers, chess, Monopoly, and other such fun pastimes. In doing so, I would watch in apt fascination as they played these various games. I was interested in how they played the games and […]