Sentences with phrase «human drivers out»

Samsung has opened up a $ 300m fund for autonomous vehicle tech, aiming to splash some cash at projects aiming to help cut human drivers out of the equation.

It all has to do with getting the human driver out of the car, reducing the cost of the vehicle, extending its useful life, and getting a vehicle utilization rate of 50 % or greater.

Not exact matches

In January, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he expected Uber to roll out an autonomous ride - hailing service by mid-2019, but that timeline may be pushed back, as the company will have to provide reassurance that an autonomous ride - hailing service will be safer for passengers and pedestrians than one operated by human drivers.

Industry insiders, or anyone tracking the company's recent moves, likely have predicted the company would pull human test drivers out of its vehicles before the end of 2017.

«I think the self - driving car has the opportunity to not only improve productivity for the people in the car, which will be a huge economic boost for those people; Not only has the opportunity to save lives — over a million people die worldwide in road deaths today caused by human drivers, and I think we can take that very close to zero, which is very good for both human welfare and for economic productivity — it's a very serious dent in productivity when people get killed; And then all the ancillary industries that end up getting built out.»

Just as a car is not evil when it kills someone after spinning out of control of the driver, so also, creation is in chaos because the human drivers have lost control.

The researchers involved in the project insist that the objective is not to replace human drivers but to give them smarter cars — smarter cars that will indulge your optimism bias while keeping you out of trouble.

The Observatory will also set out to explain the current drivers of climate change arising from human activities (including industry and agriculture), and how our future actions will depend on our capacity to understand the pace and direction of change.

Early reviews have framed «Midnight Special» as an intimately human take on science fiction rounded out by a stellar cast including Shannon, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Joel Edgerton, and Jaeden Lieberher.

When he sets out to get to the bottom of the curse before it consumes him, fate leads him into an ongoing conflict between Lady Eboshi (Minnie Driver), the leader of the iron forging Tatara clan, and the forest dwellers among whom is Princess Mononoke (Claire Danes), a human raised by wolves.

Once Level 5 cars become a reality, it will take human drivers all of five minutes to figure out how they work.

«Consistent with the «human - centered supercar» development concept, the NSX was designed from the inside out with an uncompromising focus on the driver,» said Johnathan Norman, NSX interior design project leader.

To set one's destination via OnStar, the driver has to press the blue OnStar button, which connects to a real, live OnStar representative (GM recently announced a partnership with MapQuest to enable drivers to send routes directly from a computer to the car, cutting out this step, but we like the human touch).

Peopled by boxers, drunks, truck drivers, murderers, bounty hunters, drifters traveling under assumed names, and men whose luck ran out a thousand miles ago, these stories feel hard - won from life, and if they are moody and stark, so too are they filled with human longing.

In today's highly - connected world, where we can follow each other's every move via social media, where we're bombarded by data from every angle — including information on other investors» positioning and trades — and where it can be hard to tune out the noise, human behavior may be a stronger performance driver than ever.

In a mech, you can physically rip a human out of another mech and toss him aside, or as a human, can scale a mech to kill its driver.

As we found out quite quickly, however, being able to dominate the computer at that level doesn't translate into much success against human drivers.

While warnings of an exploding global «population bomb» have not played out, high fertility rates are still a big driver of rising human vulnerability to environmental threats in the world's poorest places.

it would be both ignorant and arrogant to rule out something other than human GHGs as a long - term driver of our climate.

KR, so what you are saying to Ryland is... that % 100 of all warming is due to human CO2 forcing which is offset by tiny amounts of natural cooling... in other words the main driver if climate, using your reasoning, is offset by blips in natural variability... that again, naturally occurring blips cancel out that warm feeling we're all looking for.

How much attention is a «driver» supposed to give to what the vehicle is doing, and what responsibility does the «driver» have to take over if the car appears to be doing something wrong, especially when the reaction time of the car is much better than a human's, and it may be too late by the time the human figures out something is amiss?

Khosrowshahi gave the example of handling a ride in Phoenix, saying that in 95 percent of cases, where mapping isn't sufficient or weather is difficult, it'll send a car with a human driver — but in 5 percent of cases, an autonomous vehicle will be up to the task, and be sent out instead.

Uber Freight, which is the app that Uber will be using for its services, is in a way intended to help the company merge the likes of manual trucking with autonomous trucking, though both will still need drivers whereas something like Waymo «s self - driving vans would not as the company is set to begin rolling out fully autonomous vehicles with no human driver at some point this year, also in Arizona and specifically Phoenix.

I think next time there is a fatal accident with a human - powered vehicle, we should suspend all human - powered drivers until we can work out why humans suck so bad at driving, and can take effective measures to prevent it ever happening again before they are given the ability to drive back.

Just because you work in human resources or even as a truck driver doesn't mean you're not cut out for that fancy chair in the oval office.