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You can now get free rides in Google’s self-driving cars!
AI may help electic cars
https://www.fastcompany.com/40405140/this-driverless-electric-pod-is-the-delivery-guy-of-the-future
Since a truck hauling 20 tons of freight needs a lot of energy to move, it has to stop fairly frequently to charge; the T-pod can make it 124 miles before it has to plug in again. For other electric semis, charging time is a bigger deterrent, because it’s also wasting a driver’s time.
“If you have to stand still maybe one-third of the time to actually charge, that makes the business case for having a truck driver in a battery-powered truck not that good,” says Robert Falck, CEO of Einride, the Sweden-based startup making the T-pod. “But if you remove them and create a system where the truck driver drives it remotely and controls a fleet, you overcome that problem.”
Recommendations to save us from AI mistakes
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1744.html?adbsc=social_20170414_1424691&adbid=852915611436892161&adbpl=tw&adbpr=22545453
Driverless cars
Driverless cars are on trial in Greenwich, UK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39496321
Bosch and Daimler want to run driverless taxies “by the start of the next decade”: http://fortune.com/2017/04/04/daimler-bosch-self-driving-taxis/
Brexit as an excuse to speed up automation
“If U.K. employers embrace automation, 15 million British jobs could be lost, Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane has said. “
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-03/migrants-in-brexit-britain-beware-these-robots-want-your-jobs