Segment 1: As crashes involving large trucks continue to increase, resistance to crash avoidance and mitigation technology remains.
When a tractor-trailer truck runs into the back end of a passenger vehicle at highway speed, there's a good chance that people will die. Today, jumping off an recent Kansas City Star investigation, we talked about collisions between trucks and passenger vehicles, the number of resulting deaths and potential preventive measures.
- Mike Hendricks, reporter for The Kansas City Star
- Norita Taylor, spokesperson for the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association
Segment 2, beginning at 24:05: "Because humans can make more informed guesses with very little information, we're still superior to automation ... "
While the technology for driverless cars and other new technologies are out there, humans aren't being replaced when it comes to completing many daily tasks — at least not yet. Today we learned why, despite the increase in automation, robotics and artificial intelligence technology, we are still years away from being obsolete.
- Mary "Missy" Cummings, director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory at Duke University
Mary Cummings presents “From Drones to Flying Cars: New Frontiers in Human-Technology Interaction,” 7:00 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 13 at the Linda Hall Library, 5109 Cherry, Kansas City, Missouri 64110. The lecture is free and open to the public, but e-tickets are required.
