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Who should AI kill in a driverless car crash? It depends who you ask

10/25/2018, 6:50:59 AM
Responses vary around the world when you ask the public who an out-of-control self-driving car should hit ✔ The researchers, whose work is published in the journal Nature, also note some striking peculiarities, such as the strong preference among those in the global south for sparing women and fit characters ✔ So it would need to be a pretty extreme situation before that becomes anything other than the correct answer



Rival manufacturers support Aussie alternative to Tesla supercharger

10/25/2018, 6:16:50 AM
Car makers have backed an Australian start-up which promises to rival Tesla's supercharger network as a nation-wide energy supplier for electric vehicles. Funded in part by motoring clubs along with the Victorian and Federal Governments, Chargefox has the support of car makers including Audi, Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz. ✔ The E-Tron has a faster charging capacity than any current EV, so it’s dependent on fast-charging infrastructure like the Chargefox network, he says ✔ We are pleased to be one of the network’s founding partners ✔ Let's start a personal and meaningful conversation! Leave a comment (Get advice from an expert)



BMW 8-series review: Iron fist in a £100,000 velvet glove

10/25/2018, 12:05:38 AM
Not many manufacturers make cars like this any more; ✔ Not many manufacturers make cars like this any more; large, elegant motors capable of effortlessly crossing continents in a day ✔ If the name hadn’t become so overused, you’d say Gran Turismo ✔ I think it works pretty well, says Josef Kazan, BMW’s head of design



BMW review

10/25/2018, 5:24:02 AM
BMW threw all its new tech into one car and the result is a better X5 that might actually go off-roa...



Self-driving survey shows who society would save and kill | Drive.com.au

10/25/2018, 6:17:02 AM
An ethical study intended to guide the behaviour of self-driving cars has found people are more likely to prioritise the lives of the young over the elderly, fit over unhealthy people, and humans over animals when faced with unavoidably tragic situations. ✔ A self-driving car is extremely more unlikely to encounter the problem than a human ✔ That’s where you come into a problem - you had a problem before you got into that ✔ Australian academics offered a variety of responses to the issue ✔ Let's start a personal and meaningful conversation! Leave a comment (Get advice from an expert)



Investors dumping Mando shares

10/25/2018, 7:04:40 AM
undefined ✔ Song cut Hana's price target on Mando from 47,000 won to 43,000 won ✔ Due to the sluggish Chinese demand, Mando's fourth quarter earnings will likely go downward, but it will likely recover after that as its shipments to General Motors and Ford will begin ✔ As the automaker's sales are expected recover, we believe the current valuation of the company is too pessimistic



GM Korea subcontractors on verge of collapse

10/25/2018, 7:14:08 AM
undefined ✔ Union members of GM Korea stage a sit-in protest in front of Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul, Wednesday ✔ The escalating labor-management conflict at the Korean unit of the U.S. auto giant has made things worse for auto parts makers, which have been hit hard by plunging sales amid higher labor expenses and soaring raw material costs, they said ✔ GM Korea sold 40,879 cars in May, but the number dropped sharply to 23,101 in August



Tesla 'obviously' plans to take on Uber and Lyft, says CEO Elon Musk

10/25/2018, 12:13:33 AM
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a third-quarter earnings call that Tesla plans to launch a ride-hailing service of its own, a direct competitor to Uber or Lyft.  ✔ Today's Autopilot is a driver assistance system that can handle some driving tasks but requires drivers to keep their hands on the wheel at all times ✔ WATCH: How Zoox plans to take on Uber and Lyft with its self-driving car Start-up Zoox is working on making the roads safer with self-driving cars    12 Hours Ago | 06:11



Self-driving cars should save young over elderly, poll finds 

10/25/2018, 7:28:51 AM
People believe driverless cars should spare young people over the elderly, a study has found. ✔ Accordingly, these three preferences may be considered essential building blocks for machine ethics, or at least essential topics to be considered by policymakers, the paper said ✔ A pushchair was the character most likely to be spared, with a girl the second most likely, followed by a boy ✔ Companies including Google, Uber, and Tesla have all begun testing the technology



2019 Hyundai Santa Fe: US Release Date, New Security Features Revealed

10/25/2018, 7:00:37 AM
The upgraded model comes with new features designed to keep passengers safe. ✔ The company focused on making the Santa Fe a 'human-centered' vehicle that allows the driver and passengers to experience some advanced safety functions, Hyo-lin said ✔ This year, the company aims to sell a total of 4.68 million vehicles, which is slightly larger than the 4.51 million units it sold in 2017



Tesla made 5,300 Model 3s during the last week of Q3 — but it said it would make 6,000 weekly by the end of August

10/25/2018, 1:03:19 AM
Tesla made 5,300 Model 3 sedans during the final week of the third quarter, less than the weekly goal of 6,000 it had set for the end of August. The automaker did not say if it had achieved that rate of production at any point during the third quarter. ✔ Vehicle production has been a major point of focus for Tesla since it introduced the Model 3 sedan in July 2017 ✔ Read more about Tesla's Q3 earnings: Tesla reports surprise profit in 'truly historic' quarter Tesla's car deposits decreased during the third quarter, even though it posted a surprise profit Tesla said it expects tariffs on Chinese parts to cost around $50 million during Q4 Tesla will start making cars at its upcoming factory in China faster than expected Get the latest Tesla stock price here



Six Things That A.I. and Computers Still Can't Do Very Well | Digital Trends

10/25/2018, 12:03:36 AM
Predicting what A.I. and computers aren’t capable of can be a fool’s errand. But as artificial intelligence becomes more and more dominant in our lives, it's clear that not there are still big blind spots when it comes to the tasks machines can perform. Here are six examples. ✔ In almost every instant, they have been proved wrong sometimes profoundly so ✔ No, we don’t mean this literally: If a machine needed to literally be a human to be considered intelligent then it would never happen ✔ research, these are some of the hurdles that will need to be dealt with



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