self-driving car
description: a car that is capable of operating without human intervention by using various sensors and machine learning algorithms.
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The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design That Changed the World
by James Ashton · 11 May 2023 · 401pp · 113,586 words
greater than 65 per cent over the same time frame. Its data-centre ambition was still to be realised but furious work being done on self-driving cars meant the automotive segment showed promise too. Overall, Arm had a healthy 33 per cent share of its addressable market. With the Sōzō crowd, Segars
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, located in the upper floors of the tower that housed SoftBank’s headquarters. The pair were there to sign an agreement to work together on self-driving cars, but soon began thinking bigger when Son posed the question: ‘The entire world will eventually become a single computer. What will you be able to
Fixed: Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone
by John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai · 25 Jul 2025
to drive with the help of adaptive cruise control systems that maintain a desired speed subject to keeping a safe distance from vehicles ahead, and self-driving cars are already on the road in some cities. Why not do the same for financial products, cutting out the hardest decisions and aiming in the
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for these people. It also makes it possible to design financial products that manage themselves rather than requiring continuous human oversight—the financial equivalent of self-driving cars. However, as we discussed in chapter 8, information technology is not capable of resolving the problems of the financial system on its own. While technology
The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits)
by Maximilian Kasy · 15 Jan 2025 · 209pp · 63,332 words
and learning to plan for the future. Why not use this approach to address all kinds of real-world problems? For example, could we build self-driving cars using this approach? There are at least two big reasons why this is not possible. The first reason is that we don’t usually observe
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place in a virtual, simulated environment. This approach does not work in real-world settings like driving. For obvious reasons we cannot have millions of self-driving cars driving for millions of hours, racing around and constantly crashing into each other, into other obstacles, and into humans until they figure out how to
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drive. (Even if tech companies might want to do exactly that.) Actual self-driving cars, to the extent that they exist, thus need to rely on approaches other than pure reinforcement learning. There is a more general lesson here. Current
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.) Yet another domain where approaches based on machine learning have not delivered on their promises thus far is self-driving cars. Immense resources have been dedicated to the collection of data from the vantage point of self-driving cars, but the results have not reached the level of reliability needed for fully autonomous driving in urban
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. These problems are unrelated to (and separate from) the problem of not having enough observations—which might independently plague AI, as we discussed earlier for self-driving cars or rare-disease diagnosis. There just are some things AI can’t do well. Learning Reward Functions Researchers in AI are pursuing various approaches to
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Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
a billion dollars in a price war with local rival DiDi, forcing a sale of its China operations in 2016. Finally, Uber’s dream of self-driving cars unraveled after its autonomous vehicle killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018. (Two years later, Uber would quietly shutter its self-driving unit.) Despite
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of the US population owning a device, the novelty of pocket-size black rectangles had faded into mundanity. Silicon Valley’s promises of the future—self-driving cars, airborne internet drones, seamless “wearables”—had failed to change our lives. Cars still had steering wheels, connections still relied on Wi-Fi and cell towers
Gambling Man
by Lionel Barber · 3 Oct 2024 · 424pp · 123,730 words
that a joke?’15 23. Smash and Grab In 2015, the world’s top technology investors, including Masayoshi Son, were gushing about digital genetic coding, self-driving cars, next-generation robotics and something called ‘the internet of things’. This was the fancy term to describe a new high-tech ecosystem where billions of
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-related companies with ‘baby’ applications. In 2024 Masa invested in next-generation AI companies such as the US medical data firm Tempus and the UK self-driving car technology start-up Wayve. The emergence of ChatGPT, according to Masa, has changed everything. So-called generative AI points to a future he has long
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A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
by Simon Jenkins · 7 Nov 2024 · 364pp · 94,801 words
can only be a short step to machines taking over building sites and robots dancing attendance on owners’ instruction. If the world is ready for self-drive cars it must be ready for self-build houses. The only question is how far they will need architects. Indeed, will there be anything left that
City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There
by Ted Books · 20 Feb 2013 · 83pp · 23,805 words
has occurred in transportation. In the very near future, cars will communicate with other cars to improve the safety and flow of traffic. Google’s self-driving car is one high-profile example, but another project, run by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), is a more likely predictor of
The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs
by Nicolas Pineault · 6 Dec 2017
. 195 I won’t even tell him that while the imminent rollout of the next-generation 5G cellular network will enable incredible technological advances like self-driving cars,526 smart cities filled with billions of sensors forming what’s called “The Internet Of Things” (IoT)527 and make clean energy cheaper than coal528
Korea--Culture Smart!
by Culture Smart! · 15 Jun 201 · 124pp · 37,476 words
seriously and will often refuse to let you out of their sight. International driver’s licenses are not accepted and there are no facilities for self-drive cars. Only resident foreigners who have taken a local driving test can drive; heads of international organizations and diplomatic missions are exempt from taking the test
Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
by Dietrich Vollrath · 6 Jan 2020 · 295pp · 90,821 words
. The slowdown in productivity growth does not mean that we have become less inventive or capable. From the other side, advances in exciting new technologies—self-driving cars, genetic editing, biofuel—don’t necessarily mean anything for the productivity growth rate. I have no clue what future technologies will look like or what
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is warranted with respect to technological change in general. There are, without a doubt, an incredible number of new and improved technologies arriving every day. Self-driving cars, gene editing, low-cost solar panels, more efficient batteries, biofuel, quantum computers, 3-D printing of metals, artificial intelligence, and on and on and on
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
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