Speaking to the auto industry’s leading AI experts, David Atkinson, the top Systems & Technology and Chief Research Scientist for Artificial Intelligence Silicon Valley Research & Development Center Continental AG, said that autonomous vehicles will decisively change the world.
According to Atkinson, “There are a lot of opportunities for the auto industry (with autonomous vehicles). The social changes will be on a scale equal to or greater than those created by the Internet or the smart phone.”
“The next level of artificial technology, which can use deep learning to understand complex patterns and to make decisions, is now in the lab undergoing refinement. “In my experience it usually takes 10 years for a technology to move from the lab to commercialization,” said Atkinson.”
Autonomous vehicles are now traveling along that time line, added Atkinson, who said he expected to be able to travel to Detroit Metropolitan Airport via a robotic taxi by 2025.
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