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Crushing the AV Dream | Can You Hear Me Now?

EE Times Current · 21 Feb 2020 · 43m

What this episode covers

Semicast research analyst Colin Barden argues that the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry's promise of saving lives is a hubristic distraction from the more viable path of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and driver monitoring. He contrasts the 'left fork' of tech companies like Waymo with the 'right fork' of traditional automakers focusing on collaborative driving. The episode then shifts to a roundtable with EE Times editors Junko Yoshida, Sally Ward-Foxton, and Anne-Françoise Palais on the surge of voice recognition technology in consumer electronics, driven by the need for edge processing to reduce cloud costs and improve privacy.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Waymo, Euro NCAP, ZF, Voyage, GM, Ford, Tesla, Google, Apple, Amazon, XMOS, InfiniMind, AAC, Vesper Technologies, Audio Intelligence, NXP
Products
Alexa, Siri, Cadillac Escalade
Chips
Nvidia

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