Self-driving Cars - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Feb 2019
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Why the Trolley Dilemma Is a Terrible Model for Trying to Make Self-Driving Cars Safer

29 Jun 2016
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The Latest Local Motor: A Self-Driving Bus

(photo by Local Motors) (photo by Local Motors) The Jetsonian era may be upon us. A recent NPR piece details how 24-year-old Colombia native Edgar Sarmiento worked with Local Motors to build a vehicle called Olli—a self-driving electric... View Details

24 Feb 2016
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Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?

and remarkably prescient.” Now 89, Alden is again in the PRT—personal rapid transit—business: ”After decades away from PRT, he reunited with a group of other transportation experts to build a new system called Airport Personal Transport, a tiny View Details

10 Dec 2013
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Mary Barra and the New General Motors

19 Sep 2019
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Predicting Human Behaviors

car. The human observer was not surprised by the child in the street. Subtle behavioral cues had told him the boy was planning to cross to his mother. What was surprising was that the self-driving car... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2019
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Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

content to have reinvented gas retailing for the 2010s. “Yoshi” roughly translates as “keep moving” in Japanese, and as like-minded competitors hit the streets, the company is looking to the future. One opportunity is automation. View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

01 Mar 2019
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Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot

need arise.) Lyft plans to ease the rest of its 23 million passengers into the new model gradually, city by city. Here, Kapoor takes your questions about what a self-driving future might look like. Illustration by Matt Chinworth How does... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

04 Sep 2019
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3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)

autonomous-driving technology obviously could have incredible societal benefits. Building a safe, self-driving car is the greatest engineering challenge of our lifetime. I think we’re going to get there... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Oct 2019
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Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

self-driving cars to robots mopping up spills at the grocery store. As computer systems increasingly perform tasks that people once did, the implications for business are enormous. Although more than 80... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

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