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19th March 2015, 06:03 AM
It's nice to see so much energy put into bringing us autonomous cars with the plan to strip people of their ability to drive.
Funny I never hear anyone trying to develope self sustaining systems for homes, an individual home power source and water self generating system. Where is the research for this?
Imagine how it would change the future, if you no longer needed to be connected to the grid and had your own abundant cheap power and water source. Maybe that doesn't fit in 'their' plans to give people more freedom?
Yep, forcing people to drive, um ride in, a government controlled autonomous car is a future I can't wait to see...Not!
3/17/2015 @ 7:24PM 5,322 views
Tesla's Elon Musk Thinks Cars You Can Actually Drive Will Be Outlawed Eventually
Tesla cofounder and CEO Elon Musk, who has made arguably one of the most fun-to-drive automobiles around, thinks that people eventually won’t be allowed to drive their own cars.
In a brief interview with Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at the graphics chipmaker’s annual conference for developers, Musk said that artificial intelligence-powered autonomous or self-driving cars will surpass humans’ ability to drive safely and avoid obstacles and accidents. “In the distant future, people may outlaw driven cars because it’s too dangerous,” he told some 4,000 attendees at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. “You can’t have a person driving a two-ton death machine.”
Fortunately for Tesla and for people who enjoy driving (but unfortunately for all the people killed and injured in auto accidents), that’s not likely to happen very soon, by Musk’s estimation. That’s despite his belief that autonomous cars are “almost a solved problem.” Musk, whose Model S uses two Nvidia chips, compared self-driving cars to elevators, which used to have human operators. “The car is just going to be like that. You’ll be able to tell your car, go here, go there and it will just do it.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Not coincidentally, Nvidia announced the May availability of a $10,000 self-driving car computer called Drive PX for developers that it first introduced at CES in January. It will use a fast-rising branch of artificial intelligence called deep learning neural networks, which is the major theme of Nvidia’s conference this year, to close that last mile of automotive intelligence.
Nvidia’s graphics processing unit chips and systems are better known for turbocharging games, but they are now widely used to run deep learning networks used in speech and image recognition. The company aims to couple the same AI technology with the myriad cameras and sensors in the latest cars so they can close the gap with humans. “A car is essentially software and computers on wheels,” said Huang, who noted that Audi has committed to using Drive PX. “The days of dials, knobs, buttons are gone. The future of the car is going to be digital displays. The car is going to be one delightful computer going down the streets.”
Indeed, Huang expects deep learning will help the self-driving car learn as it drives to become smarter and smarter. That’s something today’s “Advanced Driver Assistance Systems” can’t yet do; for instance, they can’t tell the difference between an ambulance and a Federal Express EXPR +0.61% truck, Danny Shapiro, Nvidia’s senior director of automotive, said in a press conference. Huang said Drive PX will augment ADAS systems to make autonomous cars a reality. “The big bang of self-driving cars is about to come,” he said.
But not right away, to hear Musk tell it. “Where it gets tricky is that open environment around 30-40 miles an hour,” he said. “Children playing, bicycles, manhole covers are issues in a suburban environment. Highway cruise is easy, low speed is easy, intermediate is hard.” Still, he added, “We know exactly what to do and we’ll be there in a few years. We’ll take autonomous cars for granted in a short period of time.
Adequate technology isn’t the only obstacle, though. Musk said it will take years to prove to regulators that self-driving cars can handle everything on the road that humans can. What’s more, it could take 20 years to replace today’s fleet of 2 billion conventional cars and trucks.
For the record, Musk said he’s not nearly as worried about AI-driven cars as AI in general, which he has said is akin to “summoning the demon.” He thinks the application is narrow enough that it doesn’t threaten the existence of humans like he fears a Skynet-like general AI could.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2015/03/17/elon-musk-eventually-cars-you-can-actually-drive-may-be-outlawed/2/
Funny I never hear anyone trying to develope self sustaining systems for homes, an individual home power source and water self generating system. Where is the research for this?
Imagine how it would change the future, if you no longer needed to be connected to the grid and had your own abundant cheap power and water source. Maybe that doesn't fit in 'their' plans to give people more freedom?
Yep, forcing people to drive, um ride in, a government controlled autonomous car is a future I can't wait to see...Not!
3/17/2015 @ 7:24PM 5,322 views
Tesla's Elon Musk Thinks Cars You Can Actually Drive Will Be Outlawed Eventually
Tesla cofounder and CEO Elon Musk, who has made arguably one of the most fun-to-drive automobiles around, thinks that people eventually won’t be allowed to drive their own cars.
In a brief interview with Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at the graphics chipmaker’s annual conference for developers, Musk said that artificial intelligence-powered autonomous or self-driving cars will surpass humans’ ability to drive safely and avoid obstacles and accidents. “In the distant future, people may outlaw driven cars because it’s too dangerous,” he told some 4,000 attendees at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. “You can’t have a person driving a two-ton death machine.”
Fortunately for Tesla and for people who enjoy driving (but unfortunately for all the people killed and injured in auto accidents), that’s not likely to happen very soon, by Musk’s estimation. That’s despite his belief that autonomous cars are “almost a solved problem.” Musk, whose Model S uses two Nvidia chips, compared self-driving cars to elevators, which used to have human operators. “The car is just going to be like that. You’ll be able to tell your car, go here, go there and it will just do it.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Not coincidentally, Nvidia announced the May availability of a $10,000 self-driving car computer called Drive PX for developers that it first introduced at CES in January. It will use a fast-rising branch of artificial intelligence called deep learning neural networks, which is the major theme of Nvidia’s conference this year, to close that last mile of automotive intelligence.
Nvidia’s graphics processing unit chips and systems are better known for turbocharging games, but they are now widely used to run deep learning networks used in speech and image recognition. The company aims to couple the same AI technology with the myriad cameras and sensors in the latest cars so they can close the gap with humans. “A car is essentially software and computers on wheels,” said Huang, who noted that Audi has committed to using Drive PX. “The days of dials, knobs, buttons are gone. The future of the car is going to be digital displays. The car is going to be one delightful computer going down the streets.”
Indeed, Huang expects deep learning will help the self-driving car learn as it drives to become smarter and smarter. That’s something today’s “Advanced Driver Assistance Systems” can’t yet do; for instance, they can’t tell the difference between an ambulance and a Federal Express EXPR +0.61% truck, Danny Shapiro, Nvidia’s senior director of automotive, said in a press conference. Huang said Drive PX will augment ADAS systems to make autonomous cars a reality. “The big bang of self-driving cars is about to come,” he said.
But not right away, to hear Musk tell it. “Where it gets tricky is that open environment around 30-40 miles an hour,” he said. “Children playing, bicycles, manhole covers are issues in a suburban environment. Highway cruise is easy, low speed is easy, intermediate is hard.” Still, he added, “We know exactly what to do and we’ll be there in a few years. We’ll take autonomous cars for granted in a short period of time.
Adequate technology isn’t the only obstacle, though. Musk said it will take years to prove to regulators that self-driving cars can handle everything on the road that humans can. What’s more, it could take 20 years to replace today’s fleet of 2 billion conventional cars and trucks.
For the record, Musk said he’s not nearly as worried about AI-driven cars as AI in general, which he has said is akin to “summoning the demon.” He thinks the application is narrow enough that it doesn’t threaten the existence of humans like he fears a Skynet-like general AI could.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2015/03/17/elon-musk-eventually-cars-you-can-actually-drive-may-be-outlawed/2/