Are self-driving cars something we should embrace or fear? Will they make our lives safer or more dangerous?
Those are big questions facing us as more companies move into the autonomous vehicle market and governments tackle the problem of making infrastructure more capable of handling them.
Dallas’ National Public Radio station, KERA, recently aired a podcast for its THINK feature with Nicholas Gans, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. He specializes in vision-based estimation and control for robots and autonomous vehicles.
Click here to hear what Gans has to say about autonomous cars in the KERA podcast.
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