TEMPE, Ariz. — Police say early indications show an Uber self-driving SUV may not have had time to stop or avoid hitting a pedestrian who was killed Sunday night. Uber suspended all testing of its autonomous vehicles after the crash, which is the first-known pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car. Police say 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Mankind creates a monster. Monster runs amok and kills. Mankind is threatened or overtaken. This is a typical plot found in popular movies such as Terminator and The Matrix. We see over and again science fiction stories that warn us about overstepping human bounds. We are repeatedly warned […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider The movie “Deepwater Horizon” provides an entertaining and informative glimpse at what transpired in April 2010 that ultimately led to a floating oil drill platform explosion, and generated the worst oil spill ever in the United States. I suppose that I should have said “spoiler alert” and not […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Have you ever experienced road rage? Most of us have at one time or another have experienced a road rage act imposed upon us or perhaps even internally felt our own burning sensation of road rage (thankfully, most drivers do not seem to overtly act out on it). […]
By. Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. You might remember or have heard this famous quote which was uttered by Muhammad Ali in 1964. He was referring to his boxing prowess at the time. He was young (age 22) and a boxer that delighted in being […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
