TeslaDeaths.com has 41 ADAS fatalities in their latest tally (out of many hundreds killed by Tesla), yet NHTSA was reported by the Washington Post in January 2023 to be investigating far fewer fatalities. 17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot. Driver-assistance system has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported … Continue reading NHTSA ADAS SGO and TeslaDeaths.com Compared
Here’s how a Peace Corp veteran tries to illustrate the presence and effects of French colonialism. I shall never forget a Comorian friend’s reaction to his first trip to the United States. Arriving back in Moroni, rather than enthusiastically describing skyscrapers, fast food, and cable TV, his singular observation was that in the United States … Continue reading “In the United States there are no Peugeot or Renault cars!”
One note from this years’ typical out-of-tune “BlackHat” festivities in Las Vegas has struck a particularly dissonant chord — a statement that regulators habitually trail behind the currents of innovation. A main stage speaker expressed strange sentiment and stood in contrast to the essence of good regulation itself, which strives to act as an anticipatory … Continue reading Deception From a BlackHat Conference Keynote About Regulating AI
An old story from NPR came to mind when I was hacking some AI systems meant to read facial expressions. Darwin hypothesized making faces probably had some survival advantage… [and then neuroscientists Adam Anderson and Joshua Susskind from the University of Toronto were able to prove] fear expression opens up, speeds up and increases sensory … Continue reading Facial Expressions as Survival Advantage: Sensory Input Controls