When Ishan Khatri was little, he would pore over copies of Popular Science from the library, enamored with the futuristic vehicles, robots, and tools that filled the glossy, colorful pages, and the inspiring scientists, engineers, and designers making them. Today, he’s one of those engineers at Argo AI, the self-driving technology company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He’s working on the…
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Argo AI Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research, a private-public partnership funded by Argo for advancing the autonomous-vehicle (AV) field, say they have come up with a way to use lidar data to visualize not just where other moving objects are currently on the roads — but where they are likely to be several…
One of the many things I learned in my two decades in the engineering profession is that communication is not a strength of most engineers — at least to those that aren’t engineers. They tend to use way too many technical terms to express concepts in ways that come across as an alien language to…
In order for self-driving cars to integrate smoothly with other people and vehicles on the roads, they must do more than drive intelligently and safely: they must also drive naturalistically, like an experienced local driver. In this Watch and Learn article, Constantin Savtchenko, a Senior Staff Engineer at self-driving technology company Argo AI, takes us through a video of an…
“They came out of nowhere!” You’ve probably heard this phrase uttered while riding in a car (maybe you’ve even said it yourself) if another vehicle, pedestrian, or bicyclist appears suddenly in front of your vehicle without warning. Safe drivers will react by slowing, stopping, or moving their car appropriately to avoid contact with the fellow…
Ariel Wolf is the general counsel for the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association (AVIA), an organization established to educate the public, lawmakers, and regulators on the safety and societal benefits of autonomous vehicle technology. Self-driving. Fully driverless. Semi-autonomous. ADS. ADAS. Automated. Fully automated self-driving. A lot of terminology is tossed around by journalists, policymakers, analysts and…
