Self Driving Cars
Self Driving Cars

Irreproducibility and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider One of the most vital tenets of science consists of the principle of reproducibility. When a scientific result is reported, how do we know that it is something generalizable and not just a happenstance, one-time fluke or possibly even merely the outcome of a mistake made in performing […]

Starting Over on AI and Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider When my daughter was quite young, we would go over to a nearby playground and she would gleefully enjoy going on the swings and the slides. One day, it had been raining, and so we went over to the playground but everything seemed too wet to play on. […]

Forensic Analysis of Tesla Crash Based on Preliminary NTSB June 2018 Report

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Based on the June 7, 2018 release of the preliminary NTSB report about the fatal car crash of a Tesla on March 23, 2018, I provide in today’s column an initial forensic analysis of the incident. Keep in mind that the just released NTSB report (about three days […]

Towing and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot,the AI Trends Insider Towing something behind your car is not as easy as it might seem. When I was in my teens, a good friend had a boat that we used to take with us when his family went on camping outings to the local lake.  His father would take charge of […]

Tit-for-Tat and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider When I get to work each morning, I often see a duel between car drivers when they reach the gate that goes into the workplace parking garage. Let me describe the situation for you. For those drivers such as me that tend to come into the parking garage […]

Yanny vs. Laurel: Sensory Illusions and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, AI Trends Insider Are you a Yanny or a Laurel? Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you likely know about the recent craze over an audio clip that has created a social media frenzy and sparked a debate among both friends and foes alike. A short audio clip that was posted […]

Federated Machine Learning for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Machine Learning (ML) is essential for the advent and further progress of AI self-driving cars. The nature of how Machine Learning is being undertaken today for AI self-driving cars will undoubtedly evolve and become more sophisticated over time. One crucial aspect for Machine Learning in the context of […]

Non-Stop AI Self-Driving Cars: Truths and Consequences

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider How often do you use your car? I am betting you likely use your car in the morning to drive to work, and it then sits there, parked, until you drive home after work. For much of the time, you aren’t actively using your car and instead it […]

Self-Adapting Resiliency for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Have you ever seen a brittle star? I’m not talking about stars in the night time sky – I’m referring to the ocean-going type of star. The brittle star is an ophiuroid that crawls along the sea floor. The crawling motion is undertaken by the use of its […]

Pre-Mortem Analysis for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I’m sure that you are familiar with the term post-mortem. We see in the news all the time that when someone dies, and if there are suspicious circumstances, there is a post-mortem done to identify what happened and how the person died. Did the bullet enter into the […]