AI
Self-Driving Cars
Divulgement
Practical Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Dr. Lance B. Eliot , MBA, PhD
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Copyright 2020 Lance B. Eliot
All rights reserved. First Edition.
ISBN: 978-1-73-460168-8
DEDICATION
To my incredible daughter, Lauren, and my incredible son, Michael.
Forest fortuna adiuvat (from the Latin; good fortune favors the brave).
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments iii
Introduction .
Chapters
Eliot Framework for AI Self-Driving Cars .............................
Discovering Intelligent Life and AI Self-Driving Cars ........
Pizza Deliveries Mystery and AI Self-Driving Cars ..............
Provably Beneficial AI and AI Self-Driving Cars .............
City Streets Paintings and AI Self-Driving Cars ................. 71
Cops Shooting At Vehicles and AI Self-Driving Cars .......... 85
US Federal Testing Log and AI Self-Driving Cars .................
8 Drive-By Shootings and AI Self-Driving Cars ............................... 109
AI Ethics Knobs and AI Self-Driving Cars ..........
Mighty Dust Storm and AI Self-Driving Cars ........................ 137
11 Amazon Buys Zoox and AI Self-Driving Cars ...................... 151
12 Tesla With LIDAR and AI Self-Driving Cars ...................... 163
13 Autopilot BK Whopper and AI Self-Driving Cars ............... 175
14 Fireworks Celebrations and AI Self-Driving Cars ................. 189
Appendix A: Teaching with this Material ....
Other Self-Driving Car Books by This Author ... 211
About the Author ...
Addendum .
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I have been the beneficiary of advice and counsel by many friends, colleagues, family, investors, and many others. I want to thank everyone that has aided me throughout my career. I write from the heart and the head, having experienced first-hand what it means to have others around you that support you during the good times and the tough times.
To Warren Bennis, one of my doctoral advisors and ultimately a colleague, I offer my deepest thanks and appreciation, especially for his calm and insightful wisdom and support.
To Mark Stevens and his generous efforts toward funding and supporting the USC Stevens Center for Innovation.
To Lloyd Greif and the USC Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies for their ongoing encouragement of founders and entrepreneurs.
To Peter Drucker, William Wang, Aaron Levie, Peter Kim, Jon Kraft, Cindy Crawford, Jenny Ming, Steve Milligan, Chis Underwood, Frank Gehry, Buzz Aldrin, Steve Forbes, Bill Thompson, Dave Dillon, Alan Fuerstman, Larry Ellison, Jim Sinegal, John Sperling, Mark Stevenson, Anand Nallathambi, Thomas Barrack, Jr., and many other innovators and leaders that I have met and gained mightily from doing so.
Thanks to Ed Trainor, Kevin Anderson, James Hickey, Wendell Jones, Ken Harris, DuWayne Peterson, Mike Brown, Jim Thornton, Abhi Beniwal, Al Biland, John Nomura, Eliot Weinman, John Desmond, and many others for their unwavering support during my career.
And most of all thanks as always to Lauren and Michael, for their ongoing support and for having seen me writing and heard much of this material during the many months involved in writing it. To their patience and willingness to listen.
INTRODUCTION
This is a book that provides the newest innovations and the latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) advances about the emerging nature of AI-based autonomous self-driving driverless cars. Via recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), we are nearing the day when vehicles can control themselves and will not require and nor rely upon human intervention to perform their driving tasks (or, that allow for human intervention, but only require human intervention in very limited ways).
Similar to my other related books, which I describe in a moment and list the chapters in the Appendix A of this book, I am particularly focused on those advances that pertain to self-driving cars. The phrase autonomous vehicles is often used to refer to any kind of vehicle, whether it is ground-based or in the air or sea, and whether it is a cargo hauling trailer truck or a conventional passenger car. Though the aspects described in this book are certainly applicable to all kinds of autonomous vehicles, I am focused more so here on cars.
Indeed, I am especially known for my role in aiding the advancement of self-driving cars, serving currently as the Executive Director of the Cybernetic AI Self-Driving Cars Institute. In addition to writing software, designing and developing systems and software for self-driving cars, I also speak and write quite a bit about the topic. This book is a collection of some of my more advanced essays. For those of you that might have seen my essays posted elsewhere, I have updated them and integrated them into this book as one handy cohesive package.
You might be interested in companion books that I have written that provide additional key innovations and fundamentals about self-driving cars. Those books are entitled Introduction to Driverless Self-Driving Cars, Advances in AI and Autonomous Vehicles: Cybernetic Self-Driving Cars , Self-Driving Cars: The Mother of All AI Projects, Innovation and Thought Leadership on Self-Driving Driverless Cars, New Advances in AI Autonomous Driverless Self-Driving Cars, Autonomous Vehicle Driverless Self-Driving Cars and Artificial Intelligence, Transformative Artificial Intelligence Driverless Self-Driving Cars, Disruptive Artificial Intelligence and Driverless Self-Driving Cars, and State-of-the-Art AI Driverless Self-Driving Cars, and Top Trends in AI Self-Driving Cars, and AI Innovations and Self-Driving Cars, Crucial Advances for AI Driverless Cars, Sociotechnical Insights and AI Driverless Cars, Pioneering Advances for AI Driverless Cars and Leading Edge Trends for AI Driverless Cars, The Cutting Edge of AI Autonomous Cars and The Next Wave of AI Self-Driving Cars and Revolutionary Innovations of AI Self-Driving Cars, and AI Self-Driving Cars Breakthroughs, Trailblazing Trends for AI Self-Driving Cars, Ingenious Strides for AI Driverless Cars, AI Self-Driving Cars Inventiveness, Visionary Secrets of AI Driverless Cars, Spearheading AI Self-Driving Cars, Spurring AI Self-Driving Cars, Avant-Garde AI Driverless Cars, AI Self-Driving Cars Evolvement, AI Driverless Cars Chrysalis, Boosting AI Autonomous Cars, AI Self-Driving Cars Trendsetting, AI Autonomous Cars Forefront, AI Autonomous Cars Emergence, AI Autonomous Cars Progress, AI Self-Driving Cars Prognosis, AI Self-Driving Cars Momentum, AI Self-Driving Cars Headway, AI Self-Driving Cars Vicissitude, AI Self-Driving Cars Autonomy, AI Driverless Cars Transmutation, AI Driverless Cars Potentiality, AI Driverless Cars Realities, AI Self-Driving Cars Materiality, AI Self-Driving Cars Accordance, AI Self-Driving Cars Equanimity, AI Self-Driving Cars Divulgement (they are available on Amazon).
