Robots are essentially created to serve as surveillance devices that monitor and interact with their surroundings. This makes them susceptible to being utilized as informants by law enforcement agencies. Information gathering (IG) algorithms aim to intelligently select the mobile robotic sensor actions required to efficiently obtain an accurate reconstruction of a physical process, such as … Continue reading US Police Warrant Turns Any and Every Robot Into a Surveillance Tool→
Humans often get cited for being influenced by drugs or alcohol when they make terrible decisions. Autonomous vehicles (AV), on the other hand, need no drugs or alcohol to make such bad decisions. This often gets reported as an AV isn’t at risk from drinking, while in reality the risk is from… influences. And it … Continue reading Autonomous Vehicles Need No Drugs Or Drink To Be Bad Drivers→
An absolutely beautiful new work of writing states much of what I’ve been saying in my presentations since at least 2016: driverless cars are being designed to promote a “hellscape” that nobody should want. With autonomous vehicles it’s both: It can’t work, but the companies will create problems because they’ll pursue it anyway. If a … Continue reading New Book: Driverless cars are a “hellscape”→
Tesla Deaths: 207 Tesla Autopilot Deaths: 10 Ford Pinto Deaths: 27 Today at “Tesla AI Day” their engineering team on the main stage said the following, and I quote: …we haven’t done too much continuous learning. We train the system once, fine tune it a few times and that sort of goes into the car. … Continue reading A Simple Reason Why Tesla Keeps Crashing into Police Cars→