CASE STUDY(DISCUSSION)

     CASE STUDY ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

         Fully autonomous self-driving cars were created and tested in the US around the middle to end of the 2010s. In Tempe, Arizona, in 2018, a pedestrian was struck and killed by an Uber self-driving car. The automobile, which was in self-driving mode at the time of the collision, had a safety driver behind the wheel. Uber temporarily stopped testing autonomous cars after the disaster, but by the following year, testing had resumed—at first on a reduced scale. Ethicists had questioned the use of collision avoidance software, as well as moral and legal responsibilities, even before the disaster. The development of fully autonomous vehicles for eventual widespread use had continued by mid-2020 at companies like Tesla, but despite ongoing developments in artificial intelligence, the deadline for putting driverless cars on the road had not been met. Although some related technology, like as automatic braking, object sensitivity, and lane identification, had been put into actual automobiles, commentators observed that due to a lack of training data, the necessary technology had not yet been mastered for a car to be able to successfully drive itself. However, Waymo had made steps to further extend the service by 2020, including adding various cars to its fleet and testing the programme in other locations. Waymo had started implementing a commercial self-driving ride-hailing service in the Phoenix region that was administered through a smartphone application. Companies like Apple and Waymo continued to develop its self-driving cars in 2021. Delivery robot deployment took place in 2021 as well. Starship, a startup, claimed to have completed two million successful deliveries, compared to Alibaba's one million. Three Chinese enterprises started using robotaxis without safety drivers that same year (Whitson, 2023).

REFERENCE:

Whitson, G.M.. I.B.M., PhD (2023) Artificial intelligence, Salem Press Encyclopedia of Science [Preprint]. Available at: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,sso&db=ers&AN=89250362&site=eds-live&scope=site (Accessed: 31 May 2023).