Autonomous Cars
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In Robot Cars We Trust or Do We?
One hundred years ago, society worried about what would happen when the traffic light failed and the electricity went down. One hundred years later, we are asking the same question to programmers of autonomous vehicles—only now, the answer involves gigabytes of data and millisecond-latency pings. To understand this, we take a quick look back at…
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Time- Well- Spent in Autonomous Vehicles
For decades, transportation planning has focused on a core metric: getting people from Point A to Point B with maximum efficiency. We optimize for utility, comparing the personal car to public transit on the basis of “Time Saved.” But the autonomous vehicle (AV) revolution demands a more sophisticated model. It’s not just about the clock…