Self-driving trucks - Class Presentation
On 28 March 2018, Chun Hiung and Benedict presented about Self-driving Trucks. From their presentation, I was able to understand more about the technology of self-driving trucks and the limitation of this technology. They also link the topic with the recent news which is a self-driving UBER car hit a pedestrian to dead. You can read more about this news by clicking this link.
Their presentation reminds me an episode from Black Mirror -- Crocodile. There was a scene shows that a self-driving vehicle hits a pedestrian. This scene shows a potential problem that might rises from this technology: when a self-driving vehicle hits a person, who to blame? How can we prove that it was the carelessness of the pedestrian that cause this accident, or it was the system error of the self-driving vehicle that cause this accident? In this story, an insurance investigator use a device known as a Recaller to solve this case.
Let us think further. If all the vehicles in this world are self-driving vehicle, are we able to avoid most of the accident on the road? Since all the vehicles on the road are made up of AI system, which means that the travel data of every vehicle are connected on the cloud. If the system able to receive the data and predict the path of the other vehicle, will it able to adjust the path based on the data?
Self-driving trucks able to increase the market efficiency and productivity of the industry. It also able to save up labor force and human resource. However, this technology is still not safe and stable yet. In the future, new security concern might arise because new technology will always come with new types of criminals. Still, I believe this is a technology that worth study and explore.
Their presentation reminds me an episode from Black Mirror -- Crocodile. There was a scene shows that a self-driving vehicle hits a pedestrian. This scene shows a potential problem that might rises from this technology: when a self-driving vehicle hits a person, who to blame? How can we prove that it was the carelessness of the pedestrian that cause this accident, or it was the system error of the self-driving vehicle that cause this accident? In this story, an insurance investigator use a device known as a Recaller to solve this case.
Let us think further. If all the vehicles in this world are self-driving vehicle, are we able to avoid most of the accident on the road? Since all the vehicles on the road are made up of AI system, which means that the travel data of every vehicle are connected on the cloud. If the system able to receive the data and predict the path of the other vehicle, will it able to adjust the path based on the data?
Self-driving trucks able to increase the market efficiency and productivity of the industry. It also able to save up labor force and human resource. However, this technology is still not safe and stable yet. In the future, new security concern might arise because new technology will always come with new types of criminals. Still, I believe this is a technology that worth study and explore.
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