How autonomous cars are going to change our future - and what we can do to optimize that
How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility dr. Matthijs Pontier
2. Science Fiction becoming reality Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
3. History • Autopiloting in airplanes since 1914 • PRT-systems since 1975 • London Heathrow since 2011 Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
4. Total Recall Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
5. Now • Delivery drones • Driverless public transport • Driverless personal cars • Car-sharing increasingly popular • Driverless will become standard in 2025~2035 Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
6. Without hands Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
7. Cars that free your time to do other things
8. More comfort Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
9. Road safety ;) Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
10. Drinking Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
11. Less road rage Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
12. No more speeding tickets or parking fees Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
13. Why bother owning a car? • Building vehicles vs Enabling mobility • Making cars look different is easy • No more parking lots Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
14. More room for people and plants Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
15. Road safety Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
16. Boosting highway capacity 273% Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
17. Boosting Highway capacity Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
18. Driving fast and safe Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
19. Save energy Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
20. More traffic at night Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
21. Less flying Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
22. Putting a halt to urbanization?
2. Science Fiction becoming reality
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
3. History
• Autopiloting in airplanes since 1914
• PRT-systems since 1975
• London Heathrow since 2011
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
5. Now
• Delivery drones
• Driverless public transport
• Driverless personal cars
• Car-sharing increasingly popular
• Driverless will become standard in
2025~2035
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
14. Less road rage
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
15. No more speeding tickets
or parking fees
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
16. Why bother owning a car?
• Building vehicles vs Enabling mobility
• Making cars look different is easy
• No more parking lots
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
17. More room for people and plants
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
33. Smart technology
• If technology thinks for you,
do the programmers tell you what to think?
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
34. Moral reasoning system
We developed moral reasoning system that balances
between several moral goals
Decisions matched medical-ethical experts
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35. Autonomy
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Results:
Able to simulate judge
decisions about:
•Assertive outreach
•Judicial coercion after self-
binding declaration
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36. Cars that make ethical decisions
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
37. Why we should have mandatory
Machine Ethics
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
38. Why we should have mandatory
Machine Ethics
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
39. Why (car-)software
should be open-soure
• Algorithms and robots will increasingly influence our lives
Who will control the programmers?
• Good ideas are made to be copied:
Creating extra value with no extra costs
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40. Why software in a car should be open source
• Diesel-scandal
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41. Local data vs Internet of Things
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
42. Who will control ‘smart’ cars?
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
43. Who will control ‘smart’ cars?
• Hackers?
• Viruses?
• Terrorists?
• Car company that calls them back
if you don’t pay?
• The AI that tells you what to do?
• Or will they control themselves?
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44. Who will control ‘smart’ cars?
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
46. Other disruptions
• More 3D-printed organs
• Insurance companies
• Local governments
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
47. Universal Basic Income
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Stops poverty and bureaucracy
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No need for control-systems that invade our privacy
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Level playing field on labour market
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Simulates entrepreneurship and creativity
Experiments
More education
More entrepreneurship
More useful work
Less health problems
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48. Policy implications
• Liability: Shared responsibility
• Black Box in cars vs Central Data Storage
• Limit building new roads
• Limit building new parking places
• Restructure local government income
• Regulating Big Business vs
More freedom for small startups
• Universal Basic Income
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49. Policy implications in the future
• Mandatory Machine Ethics
Traffic rules can be abolished
• Human driving at own risk & responsibility
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52. More reading and watching
• Intelligent cars could boost highway capacity b
• Autonomous Car Platoons
• How to hack a car
• Zelfrijdende auto's moeten leren wie ze dood w
• Vrij van controledrift, bureaucratie en armoede
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Editor's Notes
Emotionally intelligence for robots
Ethical decision making for robots
Ethics of technology
Lead candidate EU-elections and active politician for the Pirate Party Policy implications
Automatic gear
Cruise control
Automatic lane-keeping
Automatic distance-keeping
This was predicted for the year 2084
Testing of autonomous vehicles in EU, Mexico, Chile and Russia
Michigan is building a driverless town for testing autonomous cars
Just had a test in NL with train of autonomous cars
All car brands plan autonomous car releases 2015-2025
Blablacar
Time to do other things
US: 4.3 years of your life / 235 hours a year / 9 days per year
Autonomous Cars Will Give You Back > 4 Years Of Your Life
4-day work weeks
Learning
People are going to have lots of sex in driverless cars
Sex, drug and alcohol industry in driverless cars
Less road rage
Also decreases anxiety and stress
No more speeding ticketsor parking fees
Cars, parked in a flat, can pick you up at any moment you want, and bring you anywhere
Tegenlicht
Mass individualization
Isn’t it nice to drive in a differently styled car everytime?
More room for plants and people
Parking lots can become parks
Not only less traffic accidents, but also less driving anxiety and stress
Google cars only get hit from begind
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2947920/Self-driving-cars-given-green-light-UK-Driverless-vehicles-BOOZE-CRUISE-control-drunk-motorists-future.html
You are a terrible driver compared to a robot: especially reaction time
In treintje veel meer auto’s op de weg: 273% boost in capacity (IEEE Spectrum)
Energy efficient
Net in Nederland getest
More communicating cars More increase of capacity. Finally 273%
Research Columbia University
Sensors Adaptive cruise control, Blind spot sensors, etc.
Driving fast More than 273%?
Morgan Stanley:
Autonomous cars will save US $1.3 trillion annually by lowering fuel consumption
Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems conceptualize how smart cars could be incorporated into the extended power grid
Cars of the future will share, store and produce our energy
Less smog
Less people will get cancer
Less people will die
Deliveries only at night
Less flying
We Will See Reverse Urbanization
Global urban-dwelling population 3.5 Billion (UN)
Increase in America’s urban population 2000-2010 12%
Perceptions of distance will change as driverless vehicles will make travel more bearable, if not enjoyable
Many will view the ease of travel as an invitation to move out of urban centers
We can expect suburban areas to sprawl out from cities, and rural communities to thrive
Source: US Census Bureau
Infographic from UK: driver’s license
Ouderen langer mobiel
Children can drive an autonomous car in ‘kid mode’ with limited navigation controls
Emotionally intelligent interfaces
Personal assistent that integrates with your car
Advising on music, movies, articles, or even places to go and things to do
Robot (met Silicon Coppelia) vs Mens
Multiple Choice & Emoties
Wat vond dit mannetje nou van jou?
Helped elderly people, for example with remembering to send a postcard and an addressBut: Motivating people = Manipulation
Personal assistant
People are easily manipulated..
Millgram experiment: shocking people
Stanford Prison Experiment
Results: Able to match decisions medical ethical experts
Resultaten: Mogelijk om rechtszaken te simuleren over:
-bemoeizorg
-gedwongen opname na zelfbindingsverklaring
Now cars has to perform the trolley dilemma itself
Voorbeeld schoolbus + kinderen?
Would people by a car that kills its driver?
Extra diervriendelijke auto’s?
http://motherboard.vice.com/nl/read/zelfrijdende-autos-moeten-leren-wie-ze-liever-dood-willen-rijden
Not realistic? Some of the smartest people on earth say it is:
Nick Bostrom, Elon Musk (Tesla), Stephen Hawking, etc. etc.
Intelligence explosion / Singularity
Realistic that a robot accidentally destroys us
Cars actually can kill
No big company that controls all the data
No central database that can be used for the wrong purposes or be hacked
Insurance companies
Logistics more efficient with ant-based programs than centralized control
EU is considering mandatorily equipping of all cars sold in the union with devices, which would allow police to remotely disable engines, according to leaked documents
What if government blocks visiting demonstrations or other ‘unwanted events’?
- IoT devices are generally very unsafe
- At the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show this month, technology firm Harman warned that hacking problems for modern cars very serious because the infrastructure of their electronic components was not designed with networking in mind
- VICE-artikel over car hacking
- Cars as autonomous creatures?
Door internet kun je met goed idee snel monopolie creeren
Koppeldiensten
Monopoly The power to act like an asshole and get away with it
Buying small startups with innovative ideas (or their patents) and NOT using it
Less car accidents Less organs
Insurance companies that work with car accidents need to find new business models
Local Governments: Parking fees More efficient ways
Lots of people will lose their jobs
Not a problem, as productivity still rises, but solutions need to be found
Poverty: because everybody gets amount above the poverty line
Bureaucracy: Less civil servants.
Negative Income Tax affordable and through tax system
Level Playing Field because you don’t NEED to take a job
Creativity, because worrying about money is killing for creative thinking