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PBS Frontline Surveys a Future with Artificial Intelligence

Earlier this week, PBS broadcast a two-hour Frontline episode, In the Age of AI. It was one of the more comprehensive media presentations on the automated future we face, and the program was broken into five sections. One of those was titled “The Surveillance State” and it described the steps being taken by Red China […]

Self-Driving Car Introduction Will Be Postponed

Serious technical difficulties regarding the safety of autonomous vehicles have been noticed by the executives who run automotive development, according to the New York Times.

Apparently, the real world of city streets has proved to be more complicated than the simple suburbs of the Silicon Valley area, where initial self-driving tests were run.

Below, Google’s […]

Los Angeles Times Celebrates Sikh Truck Drivers

The LA Times has definitely drunk deep from the Diversity delusion, believing it to be the source of virtue and the cure for evil. Too bad.

Often the Times promotes hispanics as being superior to crass, meanie Americans who built the country that the world is invading by the thousands daily.

But on Saturday, the […]

Apple Expands Its Self-Driving Fleet

In the future, it’s possible we will see cars as computers with wheels and may shop accordingly for a self-driving vehicle that matches up with our laptop — particularly now that Apple is becoming a bigger player in that segment of the automated future. The company appears to be upping its interest in the self-driving […]

Self-Driving Waymo Company Purchases Upscale Models

If you thought the recent death caused by a self-driving car in Arizona would stop the industry’s rush toward moving the technology into full public use, you would be wrong. From big corporations to smaller start-ups, major investments have been made to make automated cars a part of future travel, so the competition for market […]

Experts: Self-Driving Technology Apparently Failed in Arizona Death

The initial sales pitch behind self-driving cars was that they would be safer than human-driven vehicles — and indeed, more than 35,000 died in the US from automotive crashes in 2015, so there is enormous room for improvement.

The technology promised enhanced awareness powered by an array of sensors tracking the roadway environment. An Uber […]

Canada: Energy Company Switches to Self-Driving Trucks for Oil Sands Mining

Self-driving vehicles come in various shapes and sizes these days, and a Canadian company is investing in giant ore-carrying trucks to help mine oil sands in northern Alberta.

What’s unusual is that Suncor Energy came right out and said the automation would cause 400 jobs to be cut over the next six years. The […]

Taiwan Tests Its First Self-Driving Bus

The race is on among tech and automative companies building self-driving vehicles to get their creations on the road. In Asia, a boxy little bus unit has been successfully transporting people around on the National Taiwan University campus since May.

The bus putters along at six miles per hour with a dozen passengers, which […]

Automated Trucks Threaten Millions of US Jobs

Self-driving vehicles are coming on strong, faster than anyone knowledgeable thought a few years ago. Self-driving vehicles are being tested for real world use, and highway laws are being rejiggered to accommodate the new tech future.

But driving is a major jobs category, as shown by the map below, taken from an interactive NPR […]

Obama Plans to Spend $4 Billion to Speed Development of Self-Driving Vehicles

The tech industry has been successfully moving forward at deliberate speed to create self-driving cars, trucks and buses, but the administration thinks it can help by dumping in a major infusion of taxpayer cash. On Thursday, the Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announced a plan increase government meddling in driverless vehicles to expedite the process:

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