Originally published in IEEE Spectrum, July 30, 2023. Five conclusions from an automation expert fresh off a stint with the U.S. highway safety agency. In 2016, just weeks before the Autopilot in his Tesla drove Joshua Brown to his death, I pleaded with the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in
Originally published in Bloomberg.com, Jan 19, 2023. Emails shed new light on CEO’s involvement in 2016 demo. Carmaker faces probes, claims on how it’s marketed its tech. Elon Musk oversaw the creation of a 2016 video that exaggerated the...
Originally published in RestoftheWorld.org, Aug 3, 2021. To master the roads, autonomous vehicles need lots of data. Workers everywhere from Kenya to Venezuela are providing it. Every day for over four years, Ramses woke up in his...
Originally published in The Verge, July 5, 2021: Tesla CEO Elon Musk is finally admitting that he underestimated how difficult it is to develop a safe and reliable self-driving car. To which the entire engineering community rose...
Originally published in CIGIonline.org, June 15, 2020 Elaine Herzberg was killed on the night of March 18, 2018, after she was struck by a self-driving Uber car in Tempe, Arizona. Herzberg was crossing the street with her...
