Watch Out! More Robotaxis Are Coming to U.S. Cities
By B.N. Frank Reports continue to indicate that autonomous (aka self-driving) vehicles – and not just Tesla’s – have serious safety issues (see 1, 2,…
Automation
Automation Risks Creating a Two-tier Workforce of Haves and Have-nots
By Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, University of Birmingham The recent news that BT would reduce its workforce by as many as 55,000 by 2030, including about 10,000…
How AI and Other Technologies are Already Disrupting the Workplace
By Martin Spring, Lancaster University Artificial intelligence (AI) is often cast as wreaking havoc and destroying jobs in reports about its growing use by companies….
University’s R&D Plans Include 6G, 5G, A.I., Autonomous and “Smart” City Tech for 400-acre District; Community Input Welcome
By B.N. Frank Unless you’ve been completely avoiding all media, you probably know that tech inventors (among others) are now completely freaking out about artificial…
FCC Approves Joint Waiver Request to Advance Connected Vehicle Applications, Autonomous Vehicle Deployment
By B.N. Frank The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been labelled a “captured agency” and for numerous reasons (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)…
Which Jobs Will Be Most Impacted By ChatGPT?
By Tyler Durden On November 30, 2022, OpenAI heralded a new era of artificial intelligence (AI) by introducing ChatGPT to the world. The AI chatbot stunned users…
Mass Automation To Sweep Across Walmart Stores By 2026
By Tyler Durden Walmart, the largest private employer in the US, revealed on Tuesday plans to automate a large swath of its stores and warehouses…
New Report: A.I. “could lead to the automation of a quarter of the work done in the US and Eurozone”
By B.N. Frank While much attention is being paid to artificial intelligence (A.I.) technologies being susceptible to inaccuracies, biases, high costs, and safety risks (see…
Survey Reveals Most American Adults are “concerned about sharing the road with driverless cars”
By B.N. Frank Problems with most if not all autonomous aka self-driving software applications (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,…
Miss Car Payment? Future Ford Vehicles Could Repossess Themselves
With the addition of kill switches and full-control automation of the car, they can be programmed to automatically repossess themselves if you miss a payment….
NHTSA “has four principal complaints” with Tesla’s Full Self Driving Beta Software; Company to Recall Approx. 363,000 Vehicles
By B.N. Frank It’s not been a good week for Tesla. European drivers are complaining about a broken app that’s limiting their Tesla experience. In…
Driverless Vehicles with No Steering Wheels or Pedals Now on U.S. Roads with More Coming Soon
By B.N. Frank Various problems have already been identified in most if not all autonomous aka self-driving software applications (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,…
Like It or Not, Majority of New Passenger Cars Being Manufactured with Assisted Driving Systems (Chart Included)
By B.N. Frank As of today, most if not all autonomous aka self-driving software applications seem to have various problems (see 1, 2, 3, 4,…
County’s Transportation Authority Reports Numerous 911 Calls Due to “baffling self-driving car behavior”
By B.N. Frank Experts have warned for years that all autonomous aka self-driving software applications are problematic (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,…