Aicha Evans: Your self-driving robotaxi is almost here | TED
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- We've been hearing about self-driving cars for years, but autonomous vehicle entrepreneur Aicha Evans thinks we need to dream more daringly. In this exciting talk, she introduces us to robotaxis: fully autonomous, eco-friendly shuttles that would take you from place to place and take up less space on the streets than personal cars. Learn how this new technology works -- and what a future where we hail robotaxis would look like.
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This is one of the rare occasions where I didn't hear anything new from a TED talk.
Yep almost here for the past 5 years.
So... progress takes 🕛 fool. Autonomy will REVOLUTIONIZE transportation beyond the change from 🐎 to 🚓
@@apexpredator1018 Yh autonomous vehicles wouldn’t be needed if we just had good public transportation. But America is just complicated and backwards in this field.
Public transportation would be cheaper than a robo taxi could ever be too and it would solve some eco problems that all cars produce
@@ahmedo7875 look at anywhere in Utah on Google Maps and you'll see why public transportation would never be efficient there
@@mfpears a car would never be as eco friendly, safe, or cost effective as a public transport. I’m guessing you’re talking about the mountainous regions in Utah, but most people will live in the densely populated areas like salt lake, better public transport in those areas would be perfect and solve all this traffic nonsense.
Cars don’t need to banned in say those rural areas of Utah, but the use of them in the city could be significantly reduced, and help a lot, just look at Europe as a model or east asia
Excited!!
Good talk but I think there are limitations with Vision only approach in Autonomous especially if we are talking about a full Level 3-5 system without any limitation of geofencing, climate and etc.
More public transportation, fewer cars... Actually, no cars would be best..
step in the right direction.
In the USA at least, Sprawling Suburbia has already killed that dream. You need some individual means of transportation to get you out of your loop or cul-de-sac to get to a public transport stop.
Robotaxis could solve this "last mile" problem.
Yh but America too stupid to make that observation, if we had japan or eu level public transportation we really wouldn’t need these overly expensive complicated autonomous vehicles.
Plus public transportation is probably always going to be cheaper than a robo taxi because it’s not designed to maximise profits
I wonder will there be an Age limit to use them?
The idea that intrigued me the most from this is remote controlled cars.
Ev , air taxi self-driving revolution has started 2023
Can we just have busses that run on time? It's already worked for decades and theres no good reason we don't have it in the US
No, that is just socialist BS. Buses have never worked. I live in Oslo, Norway with some of the best public transport compared to other countries. In reality it is crap. It never goes when you need it and to where you need it. So most simple trips that would take 15 minutes by car take 50 minutes by public transport. Even my e-bike is much faster.
Public transport is just a socialists wet dream that never works good in practice.
Also public transport is good at spreading diseases. So we should not use money on it.
@@jimj2683 ?? Shared car isn't gonna have any surfaces for disease transfer?
Not solving traffic problems BC you're afraid of higher density travel?
Sounds kinda cringe man?
@Eris Socratou I live in Norway. The heart of so called social democracy. It is pure crap. Only reason I haven't left is because they will punish me with a fee of more than 1 million euros (exit tax).
Buses never go where you want them to go. You almost always have to walk a long distance, then wait, then catch a disease, then get off and take another bus or walk for a bit. Slow and inefficient and surprisingly expensive considering it already is paid for by taxes. When I would rather take my bicycle, that says something.
It is just a giant waste of tax money. Most of the time (outside rush hour) those trains and buses are almost empty.
They should instead just give normal people a tax break so they can use that money for small self-driving taxis in the near future. Congestion will be much less of an issue when these vehicles will communicate with each other.
@@jimj2683 Works great in Portland, I've relied on it a lot when I was in Portland and it's always been pretty solid. Bikes are definitely my favorite mode of transport when the distance isnt too far though. A bike and commuter rail can be quite wonderful. It's important to be aware that cars are just straightup problems in areas with high population density, where subways and buses make a lot of sense. I can see arguments for where bus systems break down a bit with further distances and less population density but they definitely have a role to play that I've seen well executed
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Happy New Year ~
Intriguing
Like Hyperloop, Theranos, Tesla truck, they are always just a few years away.
@@Dimitris_Balf yes they are working on it but it's far from safe or ready for use, I am far from technophobic but self driving cars are dangerous, a girl lost her foot recently in a local factory hit by an autonomous delivery vehicle. They also need to massively improve sat nav too, how often has it taken you the wrong way?
We’re facing the same issues that we faced in the 1980s on solving autonomous driving 😅
Why is a Tesla truck a few years away? It's not a consumer product lmao it's literally in pepsico hands? They made 500 of them
They haven't even delayed it? The roadster sure! Cyber truck seems on time and semi
Pepsi are getting Tesla trucks this year
@@Dimitris_Balf "there has also been great progress during this decade" doesn't mean it's just a few years away. Which is what Dog Walker rightfully eluded to in their comment. Not sure what you think is "considerable", short of maybe AI research becoming a valid field of computer science course in some colleges. But most the people working in AI today, didn't have that background. Myself included. We're honestly just at the cusp of visual processing at google lens, and we still have a heck of a time trying to teach a system how to tell the difference between an elbow and a knee.
This doesn't even touch on intrusion detection and prevention. Which if you want to keep the public safe, we better do our due diligence and take these taxi's to a few dozen hackathons. Because one small oversight, and some anonymous person can turn one of these things into a blameless killer, and set the entire evolution back decades.
Very interesting talk thank you - there’s a lot of hype being put around obviously at the moment but it’s obviously doable and coming…
Still a long way off, have you tried using satnavs how often do they get it very wrong, With all the blown down trees where you have to thread your car through, no way an Autonomous vehicle could do that.
I’ve recently rode with a friend in aTesla and it was an amazing 2,000 miles.I don’t doubt that the robot Taxis are here and waiting for deployment. We are not ready the economical unemployment !!!
Nice
can anyone provide a summary of the video for me?
Didn't watch it. Not going to waste my time. I assume it's going to be some meaningless statistics saying the technology is right around the corner. It's not. Tesla's "FSD" has clearly shown that human adaptability is still orders of magnitude higher than machines.
👍👏👏 Aicha!
Finally a Johnny Cab, now drive, just drive!
Is the fact that it's just around the corner why Musk got out of the racket - I mean business?
Good of the Zoox ceo to say that her companies method of robotaxis will work and Tesla's computer only vision won't because... they just can't.
Yeah haha. Like listen, i get it. The industry has invested heavily (intellectually and economically) into LIDAR so they won't just admit defeat. That doesn't mean they shouldn't. They really should.
@@PresidentialWinner he is a Muskrat, He believes all the Tesla lies,
@@PresidentialWinner what happens if I paint a wall looking like a tunnel, but I put a sign up saying fake road, obviously humans would just read the sign, but tesla are now removing radar in their car so they’ll have no ability to sense depth, so what happens could it in theory just crash into the wall thinking it’s a tunnel 😂
@@ahmedo7875 1. You could fool humans with that, causing a crash (even if some get the bamboozle) because humans rely on sight just as much as self-driving Teslas do. Imagine if you did that prank to a 80 year old. You think he would stop the car and think before driving to the wall? 2. Current tech is not future tech, these systems will be superior to humans in every way, including general intelligence. Even if you could deceive one now doesn't mean you can deceive them forever. 3. We don't need perfect we need better than human.
@@PresidentialWinner nah we can solve all those problems with public transport literally, our consumption of vehicles is ridiculous
“I’m afraid I can’t open the taxi doors, Dave. You didn’t tip me.”
You win my laughter for the evening!
yep, it was here 10 years ago too, it just didn’t crush civilians back then.
Sounds like you believe the AI was better 10 years ago. If you're gonna troll, at least make an effort.
@@Miranox2
Yes, We have reached at point of saturation in the field of A.I.
I work in Tech.
Facts are not Trolling, maybe get ride of the thought that the world is rigged against you
How it is different from Tesla which takes real scenarios from real world from every single car
The company that ships cars without brake pads and claims its normal.
I want to know how these vehicles handle ice and blizzard/dust storm conditions. Also, that deer running at you.
Well there all battery powered and typically batteries don’t hold up to well in the cold, idk about how good it drives but if the battery is bad in those conditions, can’t be any better right ?
Haters hahahaha ! They are not going away but your ICE Cars days are finished! Hahaha
It's already here. What stops it being used is all the non-robo stupid drives that are unpredictable.
If that's the case, I'd like to introduce you to DefCon, and a plethora of teenagers who are all to happy to crash your taxi into pile of leaves to prove a point. 😉😆
Nice Zoox ad... a bit long though...
Will we be required to sing old television commercials whike on our way to Pizza Hut? I want the "three sea shells".
I won’t hold my breath 🤣
Có ai Vietnam hong ạ
Yes, it sucks...we want it now!
Next thing to install in "self-driving" cars: microphones.
Deep Learning gives that power
What?
It uses the data stolen from your phone. Idiot.
Power is still in the hands of
Bill gates
Elon musk
Larry page
Zuckerberg
What do you hold 🤦🏽♂️🤣
I saw recent an accident with a Self-Driving car and the owner was found guilty.
How is it about Self-driving Taxi's. If something happens?
Is the Passenger in the Self-driving Taxi responsible if an accident?
Obviously not
I don't really see how we could have 100% self driving cars unless we were to get rid of manually driven cars and all the computers of the self driving cars communicate and are in agreement about what move they're going to make. Or at the very least have semi self driving cars like the Tesla, able to communicate with the fully self driving ones and actually physically stop you, when driving manually, from doing something to get into an accident with the fully self driving car, in situations where the self driving car had the right of way. Maybe even have an alarm that goes off or a voice warning if you did something wrong. Can you imagine? Maybe they might even report your traffic violations to the police or the insurance company.
What will happen if during trip computer of car will be powered off, restarted, hacked or fuel will be emptied? 😉
The simple answer is: These things will happen - but less frequently than with human equivalents (fainting...), and better fall-back procedures and thus less risk of damage.
@@PapaOystein what if several or all sensors burn out? And you are in the moment to turn left-right crossroads? Or board OS system restarting (because of bug) during turning left-right on crossroads, the taxi will run into crowds.. People can react in such situations much quicker, I think.
What if in taxi some bad guy which want to steal something from another people in taxi? If there is taxi driver he will quickly stop taxi and help people to arrest that guy😉 autonomous taxi will go further to goal destination without any actions, just nothing happened😁
Own a car and get where you want, whenever you want? Absolutely not. Rent the self-driving car service. Don't own anything.
Great presentation. Unfortunately, she is completely miss guided. Using such a wide variety of sensors will create conflict within the computer system. This will inhibit the computers ability to interpret its surroundings. She is headed down the wrong path. Camera based computer vision is the future. Humans use two visual sensors which is enough for us to interpret all information necessary in our environment. That’s the model that works with almost every other animal. Animals that use sonar do not use vision for example. There must be one dominant sensor.
You don’t think they coded that logic in to their software system? lol
@@MehulP30 Correct. I’m sure they are trying to do that right now. The problem is, with multiple inputs, you need to create some sort of hierarchy of which sensor will be responsible for every action/reaction. This creates such a level of complexity and inherent inefficiencies that the system can freeze or get overwhelmed. Paralysis by analysis.
@@Jake-je3qw
It’s 2022…
Systems don’t freeze. Servers are in the cloud.. Database architectures themselves compute in the cloud and scale instantly.
Those are problems of yesteryear.
Unless you’re speaking of the hardware itself.
Was looking for this comment. Vision based systems are the way to go. Tesla understands this and it’s cheaper
by the time you see this your computer chip inside your phone is multitasking and compared machine & biological is an invalid fallacious argument.
BS total BS
A lot more honest and transparent than Elon Musk has been this last decade 🤣 Maybe it should be Aicha Evans who takes over Tesla!
I can't wait for semi-autonomous vehicles to be the majority of traffic on the road, let alone fully autonomous. But it's likely to be one of those evolutions that will require dedicated roadways, or for us to give up part of our roads especially for them, as we phase out privately owned transportation.
Honest and transparent? How has he not been those things? He has been overly optimistic. There is a difference you know...
The problem isn't privately owned transportation, it is an obsesive amount of privately owned transportation and zoning laws forcing car ownership to be necessary.
Yup. Elon often speaks from a position of IGNORANCE of REALITY. I hope he wakes up to the real world. Maybe the money & fame has been a bit too distracting...
Cool idea. Better idea: public transit and FREAKING BIKES. Want less traffic? Bikes and public transit. Want to cost less? Bikes and public transit. Reduce global warming? You guessed it. Bikes and public transport
Had all my respect until I noticed the Hublot on her wrist!
Sooner then a lot of people think, autonomous driving mainstream by 2025.
**yawn** how long has Elon Musk been promising this?
Let's see, it's 2022, and we still haven't mainlined a rollout proposal. Let alone tested them in more than a few cities at a time, or pitted them against intrusion specialists. Ya, no... that's not going to be mainstream by 2025, unless you're willing to help co-ordinate a concerted effort and bring in a bunch of more resources into the endeavor. And that's not going to happen if the companies doing the R&D don't want you there.
@MWMWMWMWMWMWMWWWMWMWM or where when it rains you can't see a lane at all, because the surface of the oil soaked roads are reflecting everything? That's my pacific nw talking 😉
@MWMWMWMWMWMWMWWWMWMWM why did we ever think white and dull yellow were good road indicator colors? Why not neon pink?
LIDARs are expensive and limiting. Tesla's computer vision is the way to go.
Yh problem with that is they’re getting rid of radar too as well as not implementing LiDAR, in theory I could paint a realistic tunnel in on a wall, and the Tesla would smash right through the wall 😂😂😂 cause it can’t detect depth, humans could avoid it because I can put a big sign saying fake tunnel, but teslas can’t recognise that so it’ll just go right through
@@ahmedo7875 teslas can read signs
@@kashishkumar no foreign signs
Lol. Just watched some videos of fsd Tesla driving over children (dummies) crossing a street without even attempting to break.
These were walking, not sitting down, playing or jumping out of nowhere.
No, full self driving is level two, three at good circumstances.
Human in the loop? In a Robot Taxi? To blame someone if the system fails?
This is just another way for the rich to get richer while continuing to destroy the environment, let’s invest in transportation that actually works and doesn’t require an ungodly amount of unclean energy. Public transportation is cleaner, safer and less wasteful... but it isn’t another product to sell us, so that’ll be a no.
"continuing to destroy the environment"
Putting 2 tons of steel and plastic into every driveway and let it stand unused almost all of the time is the ultimate environment destroyer. So are we agreed that getting rid of a personally owned car for everyone is actually very much desirable from an environment point of view?
"doesn’t require an ungodly amount of unclean energy"
Self-driving cars will be electric, and thus as clean or dirty as the electricity fed into the grid. The same is true with public transport: Trains today are generally electric where a serious rail network has been established for public transport, and buses will be elevtric, too.
"Public transportation ... isn’t another product to sell us, so that’ll be a no."
Robotaxis are not the replacement for public transport, they instead fill the link between your doorstep and the public transportation hub: I see robotaxis collecting people stuck deep in suburbia and dropping them at the train or bus stop they want to go.
@@PapaOystein are you ok good public transport means we have frequent buses and bus links that take you to trains etc. plus no the electricity thats used to transport people using a train compared to a electric vehicle is marginally smaller because trains and buses can transport more people per hour so you’re wrong there.
If public transportation was actually good you’d never need any robo taxis or bs like that
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YES AICHA!
Redundancy is REQUIRED. Computer glitches are REAL & the robo-🚗 is just a 💻 on wheels. People's LIVES are more important than some other CEO's ego.
Exactly the whole idea is dangerous, and completely unnecessary.
When will people realize that if we got rid of roads and parking lots and put trains everywhere, you wouldn't need very many because everything would be significantly closer to you?
That's totally UNREALISTIC haha. Also, stop spamming comments plz. 1 PER YT VIDEO.
I really look forward to the day we can do away with our expensive cars & use robotic taxis. It will be so much cheaper in the long run. It just makes so much sense in cities like mine, that are highly populated. Think about all the parked cars doing nothing, Gone with this new concept.
My car spends 90% of the time parked, some wks 99%...that's insane. $41k just sitting there doing nothing, sigh. Not sure why it's taking so long, because we have the technology & intelligent people to make it happen.
I hope we see it soon in my city, but i fear it may not happen in my lifetime because they are wasting money on more rail instead, sigh.
Governments are so stupid & stubborn. They only see tomorrow, they can't look beyond tomorrow, sigh
Dude Japan and eu already solved your problem and you don’t need fancy autonomous vehicles.
Good public transportation
It will always be cheaper than any autonomous vehicles cause of economies of scale and gov won’t need to make profits
All for the greater good, but what will become of the pleasure of driving? Not all transportation is just A to B. Driving cars and riding motorcycles is an enjoyable endeavor.
@@Dimitris_Balf Not today but do you not see an eventuality where self driving cars make human drivers seem dangerous?
Guess what’s less dangerous? Bikes and buses and trains.
Please let's ban cars from our cities...!
Exactly. Everyone says that cities are loud but its the cars. People say that city folk are rude. Thats caused by noise a lot of the time.
Really sucked me in here. When she said the percent of accidents caused by humans,
I nodded. In an otherwise empty room.
Stop. Tesla has already shown that automatic vehicles are a problem because humans WILL exploit them. But beyond that: people have already hacked into the software of numerous vehicles.
I'd rather have a fully mechanical (i.e. non-computer-based) vehicle than this. Hackers will always try to screw with things. I'm already concerned about the technology I have at home (PC, phone, etc). I don't want my tech to be messed with at 50 MPH.
Who is Ted? Why is he never speaking?
TED talk podcast has gone downhill since Guy left. Manoosh is awful.
Thanks, I hate it.
Lets just use the engineer's creed K.I.S.S.(Keep It Simple, Stupid) and just build trains and use more busses like Europe.
This is going to destroy uber and lyft hahahaha
It's never going to happen move on.
Yo solo se que la mayoria de accidentes en promedio lo provocan las mujeres estando sobrias
How long will it take for all of those companies to realize tesla is going to get there first. Pure vision is the best method and the only one that will work. But to be fair trains will always be better in so many ways.
You are mistaken. "Pure vision" is DANGEROUS. There are people & CHILDREN onboard. Even ur phone 📱 has glitches. Redundancy is NECESSARY through lidar, radar, etc.
@@apexpredator1018 Pure vision is what humans have, there is nothing wrong with 2 cameras on a swivel, the problem with humans is we get distracted way too easily. The problem with Radar, Lidar, etc, is that in certain situations they will disagree on what is happening, and you have to turn them off, and you end up relying on just vision anyways, whereas if you rely on vision alone, it is always reliable and it never has to fall back on a worse technology.
@@apexpredator1018 Pointing out their are people and children aboard is pointless, that is always the case, and more often than not the people and children who die, are the ones outside the car.
@@MegaLokopo I'm not gonna argue with a FANATIC. FSD doesn't work yet btw. Relying on just 1 system is DANGEROUS. You are clearly someone who has not seen the HORRIFIC consequences of bad inventions or REALITY's dark side.
@@apexpredator1018 Yes it doesn't work yet, but it is the closest system to working that is available, all the other systems that seem to be better only work in specific situations and specific locations. Yes it is horrible to rely on only one system, but we should prepare for the worst situation, in the worst situation, lidar and radar will not work at all, vision will still work. if we rely on radar and lidar, the car won't be able to drive in bad conditions, if we rely on vision which always works, the car will still drive.
There is no situation where radar or lidar will work where vision doesn't.
Her arrogance is beyond real, consider the braking system, momentum of the vehicle, direction and path of the wheels and steering system and how short the code for obstacle detection or “human sized object in front” is.
These people control people with lies, that is all there is to it.
Dear Aicha,
Um... with respect... you should _really_ watch "A.I. Day". Seriously.
You are optimizing a local maximum, not a global maximum.
Lol it's not