The U.S. Department of Transportation has chosen a research consortium led by The Ohio State University to address cybersecurity risks in various modes of transportation.\nOhio State will receive $10 million in federal funding and $5 million in cost-share over the next five years to establish a Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC).\nCARMEN+ will expand upon work completed in the two-year CARMEN UTC, awarded to Ohio State in 2020 and led by Kassas.\nThe CARMEN+ consortium also includes North Carolina A&T State University, University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Irvine.\nRelevant expertise and resources are abundant between the four institutions, including three preeminent PNT labs, four dedicated transportation and autonomous vehicle research centers, an electromagnetics research center, The Ohio State University Airport and close affiliation with the Transportation Research Center, Inc., home of the nation’s largest autonomous vehicle proving grounds.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Face Recognition Software Led to His Arrest. It Was Dead Wrong","slug":"face-recognition-software-led-to-his-arrest-it-was-dead-wrong","publishDate":"2023-02-28 12:00:00+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-02 14:30:54.440801","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Carronne Sawyer took the week off work to get her husband Alonzo out of jail.\nBut an intelligence analyst using face recognition software had labeled him a possible match with the suspect seen on CCTV footage from the bus, police records show, and an officer had confirmed it.\nHer husband is taller than the suspect in the video, she explained, and has facial hair and gaps between his teeth.\nWIRED was unable to speak with Alonzo Sawyer, who is serving time in a Maryland jail on a charge unrelated to the bus incident.\nThe Alonzo Sawyer case adds to just a handful of known instances of innocent people getting arrested following investigations that involved face recognition misidentification—all have been Black men.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Ford Tries to Patent a Dystopian Future Where Self-Driving Cars Repo Themselves","slug":"ford-tries-to-patent-a-dystopian-future-where-self-driving-cars-repo-themselves","publishDate":"2023-02-28 20:55:00.765000+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-02 14:30:54.213511","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Ford has filed a patent for theoretical tech that would, among other things, allow its vehicles to repossess themselves if a driver falls behind on car payments.\nThe U.S. Patent Office published the company’s application last Thursday, February—about 1.5 years after Ford first filed it.\nAdvertisementIn the automaker’s dystopian, proposed and patented version of reality, a couple skipped car payments would trigger a cycle of in-car consequences—or a “multi-step repossession procedure,” as it’s called in the document.\nAnd still, if the lockout doesn’t work, Ford has filed to patent tech that would allow its vehicles to self-repo.\nThis is not the only absurd patent Ford has filed for its vehicles.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Battle of the robots: Waymo vs. Cruise","slug":"battle-of-the-robots-waymo-vs-cruise","publishDate":"2023-02-28 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-02 14:30:53.615888","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Waymo car on left; Cruise car on right.\nState of play: Waymo and Cruise are the two autonomous vehicle operators allowed to transport passengers in San Francisco without a human driver in the front seat.\nWaymo is not yet allowed to charge for rides, while Cruise has been able since June to charge for late-night rides.\nDemand for a car with Cruise was pretty high on a Thursday night just after 10pm – when the service starts in San Francisco.\nYes, but: The San Francisco County Transportation Authority, along with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, recently filed complaints about both Waymo and Cruise, saying their expansion \"is unreasonable\" in light of incidents such as stopped vehicles blocking traffic.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Bonusly, a startup aiming to help employees get recognized for quality work, raises $18.9M","slug":"bonusly-a-startup-aiming-to-help-employees-get-recognized-for-quality-work-raises-18-9m","publishDate":"2023-02-28 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-02 14:30:53.257696","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Employee recognition is a key retention tool in a competitive jobs market.\nAccording to a recent SurveyMonkey poll, 82% of staffers consider recognition an important part of their happiness at work, while an equal percentage — 82% — report feeling happier overall as a result of receiving (presumably deserved) work recognition.\nIn an industry poll, 56% of HR leaders told the Society for Human Resource Management that employee recognition programs help with recruiting top talent.\nPerhaps it’s unsurprising, then, that startups facilitating employee recognition and the doling out of merit-based rewards have gotten a lot of investor attention.\nWorkAngel, a mobile-first employee reward and recognition platform, has raised millions of dollars to date from prominent VC backers.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"FoMoCo Repo: Ford Patents System for Self-Repossessing Vehicles","slug":"fomoco-repo-ford-patents-system-for-self-repossessing-vehicles","publishDate":"2023-02-28 23:17:00+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-02 14:30:52.917326","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"One of the systems described in the patent enables an autonomous vehicle to repossess itself.\nAvoiding the repo man could get a lot harder in the future, specifically if vehicles can one day repossess themselves.\nIn situations where Ford's repo system corresponds with the lender and determines the vehicle's market value isn't worth the cost of the repossession, it could drive itself straight to the junkyard.\nEssentially, Ford's repo system could immobilize the car, truck, or SUV and even lock the owner out.\nFor now, all Ford's patent filing confirms is that the company is at least kicking around the idea of self-repossessing vehicles.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Professors say AI art advancements shouldn’t worry art students at Northeastern","slug":"professors-say-ai-art-advancements-shouldnt-worry-art-students-at-northeastern","publishDate":"2023-03-01 14:56:28+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-02 14:30:52.898980","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"“If more and more companies start to use AI art… design won’t be as experience-centric.\nI don’t really do that anymore,” Thorp said, recollecting how the invention of AI art has impacted her personally.\nThere’s less of a demand for portraits, I guess.”Already, advancements in AI art have begun to decrease demand for artists.\nThe perception of AI is strange to many because the creation of AI art lacks a human touch.\nDespite the fears of some students, Gradecki and Curry maintain that students will continue to have a vast array of opportunities.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Waymo takes testing to the next level: no human even in the driver’s seat","slug":"waymo-takes-testing-to-the-next-level-no-human-even-in-the-drivers-seat","publishDate":"2023-03-01 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-03-02 14:30:52.255840","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Waymo, the company behind the autonomous automobile’s you’ve seen cautiously cruising up and down the streets of Santa Monica, has announced it will be advancing its testing to the next level, driving with no human so much as even sitting in the driver’s seat.\nWhen this near-final phase of testing begins, it will be the first time any fully autonomous car has driven in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.\nThere were 18 minor contact events that were too minor to meet the tow-away and police-report criteria, with 55 percent of those being the result of a human driver hitting a stationary Waymo vehicle.\nWhile the Waymo vehicles also incorporate cameras and radar, LiDAR offers a level of accuracy for 3D mapping at a resolution hundreds of times higher than radar and there are several of these mounted over the exterior in key positions.\nI like human contact and human interaction,” said Santa Monica resident Cindy Smith.
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