I planned to write a Finch movie review, but watching Finch only made me want to write about Dune. If Tom Hanks + Robot + Dog is your Venn diagram of cinematic bliss, Finch is for you. But the strange thing about Finch is that for a movie where the main character is a robot named Jeff, it has little to say about artificial…
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess’s job revolves around making cars for people to drive, but last week, he went for a ride on the busy streets of Munich, Germany, in a vehicle unlike any he’d ever traveled in before: the autonomous driving ID. Buzz test vehicle developed in conjunction with VW’s partner Argo AI, an autonomous products and services…
The world looks very different at night. Get behind the wheel of a car, and you’ll quickly notice the limitations of human eyesight: In low or no light, we struggle to identify objects. We become reliant on street lights (if there are any). We are blinded by headlights and have a tendency to “overrun” them,…
As autonomous vehicle use grows, AV companies and the League of American Bicyclists are collaborating on how to ensure cyclists and motorists can share the roads safely, even if the “motorist” is artificial intelligence software. As part of the League’s mission to make roads safer, Ken McLeod, its policy director, has worked with Argo AI, a…
In a new series, Ground Truth explores iconic technology throughout pop culture history that left an indelible impression about the future of automation and what self-driving could become. Not necessarily the most capable robots or flashiest driverless cars, but the ones that connected most deeply with us and remain parked in our brains forever. Flashback…
The following information may make you wish to curl up into a ball and scream about the passage of time, so fair warning — but, here we go: Minority Report, the Steven Spielberg-directed, Philip K. Dick-originated, Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell-starring sci-fi action film, turns 20 years old in 2022. Yes, the movie that seemed so…
