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In Machines We Trust: AI in the Driver’s Seat
Season 1 · Episode 6

In Machines We Trust: AI in the Driver’s Seat

Driverless cars are learning to speak a language humans can understand

MIT Technology Review Narrated

September 9, 202023m 49s

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Show Notes

Automated driving is advancing all the time, but there’s still a critical missing ingredient: trust. Host Jennifer Strong meets engineers building a new language of communication between automated vehicles and their human occupants, a crucial missing piece in the push toward a driverless future.


We meet: 

Dr. Richard Corey and Dr. Nicholas Giudice, founders of the VEMI Lab at the University of Maine

Ryan Powell, UX Design & Research at Waymo.

Rashed Haq, VP of Robotics at Cruise


Credits: This episode was reported and produced by Jennifer Strong,Tanya Basu, Emma Cillekens and Tate Ryan-Mosley. We had help from Karen Hao and Benji Rosen. We’re edited by Michael Reilly and Gideon Lichfield.