How Self-Driving Cars Will Transform Our Cities and Our Lives | Jeff Schneider | TEDxCMU

Jeff's TEDxCMU presentation covers the next amazing way artificial intelligence will allow us to reinvent our lives: through self-driving cars.

Dr. Jeff Schneider is the Engineering Lead for Machine Learning at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group. He is currently on leave from Carnegie Mellon University where he is a research professor in the School of Computer Science. He has 20 years experience developing, publishing, and applying machine learning algorithms in government, science, and industry. He has over 100 publications and regularly gives talks and tutorials on the subject.

[PetersDreamBoat]

From the research I undertook for my Oxford thesis, 'SHARING IS THE KEY'. If we embrace Autonomous Vehicle (AV) sharing, then we can release a lot of existing parking space for other uses. If we continue with self ownership, then road congestion gets far worse and little parking space released. This will require a cultural shift from our current 'right of passage' to own our vehicle. A solution is to include AVs into Mobility as a Service (MaaS). Additionally, for active travellers, we need to continue the work on dynamic feedback from the AV to active travellers indicating the intentions of the AV.

[JustforFun-cbbo]

What AI lack among other things is curiosity. Yes curiosity is a number 1 factor in the natural world. Curiosity drives us humans to explore to search to try something new to think a way of overcoming a hurtle, curiosity exist in all animals, let a dog free in a house and it will explore it all, it will learn every corner of the house and every good spot. Curiosity is driven by desires.

[irsyadhasan]

Self driving vehicles should be implemebted everywhere at every nation around the world.

[ericdew]

Great talk. Inspirational and feasible. The only hurdle is local government obstruction.

[nidaaslam]

helo I have chosen autonomous car driving for my Final year project in Computer Science Now i want to know is which languages works behind itand what type of hardware is required for it. living in Pakistan can i work on it. How much will its cost be??

[cruven]

I lost vision in 2003, I have been involved with computers since the mid 80s, most people back then had No need for a computer I had an older friend that I wanted to build a computer for and she told me she did not want one of those dam things in her house 10 years later around 95 she ask me to build her a computer. people don't like change until it happens then they find they need it

[ismailsakkal]

NHTSA : National highway traffic safety administration (not Transport)

[kuruji]

This taught me a lot about badly warped logic in support of killer cars.

[paulwitmer]

The high death rate isn't surprising considering the lack of interest in traffic enforcement law enforcement is showing, especially in large cities. some things that could be done is utilization of drones to spot the erratic driver, updating the rules of the road as they are really dated, required dash cams to be in operation and any moving vehicle, placing cameras on all intersections prone to repeated accidents, past laws which allow police to interrogate the insurance company provided accelerometers and mandate their in vehicle installation if the ensure doesn't provide them, pass aggressive driving laws in the states that don't have them, require repassing the DMV test whenever you have an accident or get a ticket, increase fines for tailgating, and make traffic ticket fines proportionate to income like it is in Germany.

[SelfDrivingCarsNews]

Good talk, I like an idea of dog walking lane!

[G-T]

Before they hit public roads let's watch some of them racing around a track!

[lecturesoniesgatepreparati]

Focus on wars, don't make armies abd war like situation

[billjack]

This is insane! Out of the myriad of issues that are worthy of improvement in this world, they focus on THIS?!?!

[michaelop]

If so safe how about uber self driving car killed bikeist in az

[billfarrell]

"All these resources that will be freed up by self driving cars" - in other words, all the commercial and taxi drivers that will be out of work.

[jesslynn]

11:52 I think he ment to say 42 hours a year...

[circusboy]

No the real problem is in the United States we have some of the most driving education on the planet look at Germany were driver fatalities are extremely low it is not that you will be that cause of the accident is the lack of proper driver education.

[Ponk_]

how are we going to stop these cars from being stolen?

[akshaybhan]

thats the Uarizona campus :D . Anyways....continue.

[thomasmcgillivray]

Safe & successful self driving vehicles on the open road just aint gonna happen & auto engineers need to front up & be honest about a start an interesting Youtube video worth watching is entitled "The self driving car scam"