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Cars are effectively becoming computers on wheels – and very attractive to cyber criminals.
Pedestrians ensure their safety by making eye contact with human drivers. Autonomous cars will have to communicate with nearby people in other ways.
How might we, and our nation’s roads and highways, need to change as autonomous vehicles become more ubiquitous? We know a lot of the answers, but not all of them.
Political and community leaders must act now to preserve the American middle class and adapt the US economy for the 21st century.
The dystopian urban future imagined in the Judge Dredd comics warns against letting technology rule our transport systems.
Flying cars have been the stuff of science fiction for years, and now companies are now starting to look at such options. But what will it take to get our cars off the ground?
There’s every chance that, if mismanaged, driverless vehicle technologies will entrench the ills of car dependency.
We should all learn from mistakes. Driverless cars must do the same when it comes to any accidents they’ve been involved in on our roads, no matter who was to blame.
Driverless cars may cut the number of traffic offences but they could open up a whole new area of litigation - who’s responsible for any crash?
A former animal trainer explains how we might usefully think about the limitations of artificial intelligence systems.
Machines are taking over many human tasks but what happens when something goes wrong? Would humans still have the skills to react and prevent a tragedy?
For a driverless car to be safer than one driven by a person it must know what’s going on around it. But making a system that can “see” is a challenge for tech companies.
When you don’t need a human to drive a car there are plenty of things you can do with such a vehicle.
Together, three recent events mark a crucial turning point in the development of autonomous cars: They are both safer and more advanced than ever before.
The ethics and psychology of trust suggest ways we might learn to understand self-driving cars, but also show why doing so might be more challenging than we expect.
Without a human operator on board, how can a drone steer clear of collisions? Technology from autonomous cars can help.
As self-driving cars proliferate, we need a system to handle difficult situations.
We need to do more than teach machines to learn. We need to overcome the barriers that separate machines from us – and us from them.
Apple has pulled back from challenging the car industry with a new vehicle.
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Neil G Sipe is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Human Systems Labs, University of Windsor
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Psychology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
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Director, Assuring Autonomy International Programme, University of York
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