Lance B. Eliot - Top Trends in AI Self-Driving Cars: Practical Advances in AI and Machine Learning

Top Trends in

AI Self-Driving Cars

Practical Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning

Dr. Lance B. Eliot , MBA, PhD

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Copyright 2018 Lance B. Eliot

All rights reserved. First Edition.

ISBN: 0692157603

ISBN-13: 978-0692157602

DEDICATION

To my incredible son, Michael, and my incredible daughter, Lauren.

Forest fortuna adiuvat (from the Latin; good fortune favors the brave).

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments iii

Introduction .

Chapters

1 Eliot Framework for AI Self-Driving Cars .............................

Responsibility and Self-Driving Cars ......

Changing Lanes and Self-Driving Cars ...................................

Procrastination and Self-Driving Cars .........

NTSB Report and Tesla Car Crash .........

Start Over AI and Self-Driving Cars ......

Freezing Robot Problem and Self-Driving Cars ........

Canarying and Self-Driving Cars .........

Nighttime Driving and Self-Driving Cars .............................

Zombie-Cars Taxes and Self-Driving Cars .... 149

Traffic Lights and Self-Driving Cars .

Reverse Engineering and Self-Driving Cars .........................

Singularity AI and Self-Driving Cars ....................

Appendix A: Teaching with this Material ....

Other Self-Driving Car Books by This Author ... 207

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 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, and Autonomous Vehicle Driverless Self-Driving Cars and Artificial Intelligence and Transformative Artificial Intelligence Driverless Self-Driving Cars, and Disruptive Artificial Intelligence and Driverless Self-Driving Cars and State-of-the-Art AI Driverless Self-Driving Cars (they are all available via Amazon). See Appendix A of this herein book to see a listing of the chapters covered in those three books.

For the introduction here to this book, I am going to borrow my introduction from those companion books, since it does a good job of laying out the landscape of self-driving cars and my overall viewpoints on the topic. The remainder of the book is all new material that does not appear in the companion books.