#self-driving car

[retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art]

Günther Radtke - 1974 illustration titled Self-driving cars on superhighway

[one-time-i-dreamt]

My friend got a self-driving Tesla and while we were in it the car went haywire and took us to Applebees? I wanted to go to Jack in the Box but clearly the car had another idea.

[jaubaius]

It is trying...

[wtf-fun-factss]

If a self-driving car gets in an accident that is clearly its fault, then the owner doesn't pay damages - the manufacturers do. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/can-you-sue-a-robocar/556007/

[desdealgunlugardelsur]

Harrison Ford visits Google´s offices in San Francisco to test the company´s self-driving car. [x] [x] [x] [x] 

[seat-safety-switch]

Nobody really understands what’s inside a computer, if we’re being honest with ourselves. At some point in the distant past, people who were a lot smarter than us figured all this shit out, how to make a rock think with the power of lightning, and now we’re just kind of showing up and doing what we can to look busy. If we keep our heads down, we can make it to retirement before anyone figures out that we’ve been phoning it in the entire time.

Old Ted, down in tape-up, he was about to get out. He was going to walk out the front doors in a couple years and then die of a boredom-induced coronary a few weeks later. The perfect end to a perfect career-long coast. Nobody would have asked anything of him. It never quite turns out like you imagine, does it?

A bunch of computer scientists got into the lab, somehow. I think one of their interns threw himself against the door until it broke. They were all software people. You know, the kind that make our job necessary. Usually, we turn up the Moore’s Law dial a bit - but only a few times a year, since we can’t really keep this thing going much longer - give them a nice fast speed so they can write even more inefficient software.

We figured they could only write shitty code so fast, but we were wrong. They figured out how to make computers write even worse code, infinitely quickly. Machine learning, they called it. Suddenly, we needed thinking rocks that could defeat quantum physics. A tall order, even if you were one of the giants of the industry that we were supposed to have learned from before they all died of solvent inhalation and secretary-overfucking.

Ted, being the oldest, was the first guy our boss Maurice went to. Make it happen in a week, he said. We want our chips to go in a self-driving car, and it better do a great job of recognizing people. None of us talked to Ted that entire week, for fear of delegation. I took a whole different route around the office, just in case he was using the same coffee machine, toilet or fire extinguisher I wanted to.

I don’t know if he succeeded. We came into the office at the end of the week and found him gone, his cubicle set up just like he had left it. We told Maurice that old Ted had disappeared into the Twilight Zone, which was ruled over by Speed Ghouls who preyed on anyone who dared approach a double teraflop. In the meantime, we told the computer scientists to just set their iterations a little lower. After all, “we made a smart rock guess a bunch of times what a person looked like and didn’t expect them to be dressed like a park bench” is a fantastic excuse at a manslaughter trial.

[tecnomagzne-blog]

Ex-Apple Worker Accused of Stealing Self-Driving Automobile Tech

Ex-Apple Worker Accused of Stealing Self-Driving Automobile Tech

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Federal prosecutors have charged a former Apple worker with stealing commerce secrets and techniques associated to Apple’s autonomous car program.

Xiaolang Zhang allegedly labored on Apple’s secretive self-driving automobile undertaking. Zhang left Apple in April saying he was going to work for a Chinese language electrical car firm referred to as Xpeng Motors. He’s accused of copying…

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[softwarelint]

Xavier: Nvidia’s Powerful SoC For Self-Driving Cars Is Now Up And Running #CES2018

vidia has released their new AI-powered system-on-chip for self-driving cars at CES 2018. First announced at last year’s CES, it is known by the name Xavier. Flaunting the intricate architecture of the chip, Nvidia says it houses 9 billion transistors. Xavier SoC features an octa-core custom CPU, a 512-core Volta GPU, 8K HDR video processors, and […]

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