Episode 5: The Automated Driver

Technology Today

Southwest Research Institute

Technology

4.8 • 19 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Join us on a road trip. Our destination? The future of driving. Our guest is Dr. Steve Dellenback, vice president of the Intelligent Systems Division at Southwest Research Institute and an expert in the field of automated vehicles, or self-driving cars. The technology is in the fast lane and is already in limited use in commercial and military settings, but there are also plenty of road blocks. For instance, you program an automated car to obey traffic laws. So, how do you teach it to react in unexpected situations that require it to break the law, let’s say, to save a life? If the technology fails and results in an accident, who’s to blame, the passenger, the manufacturer, or the software designer? Along with the accelerated advancements come the ethical speed bumps. Listen now as we merge into automated traffic and hit the highways of self-driving vehicles.

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0:00.0	Let's take a drive, but on this drive, you are not steering, pumping the gas, or braking, and neither am I.
0:08.3	The car is doing all of that and much more by itself.
0:12.9	This self-driving car already exists.
0:16.3	So when can we hop in and enjoy the ride?
0:19.4	Buckle up as our guest today takes us through the twists and turns of automated driving.
0:28.3	We live with technology, science, engineering, and the results of innovative research every day.
0:34.7	Now, let's understand it better.
0:36.4	You're listening to the new Technology Today podcast
0:39.5	presented by Southwest Research Institute. Hello and welcome to technology today. I'm your host
0:46.3	Lisa Benia. Our guest today is developing automated vehicle technology and navigating the road
0:52.5	to self-driving vehicles. It's a road that also has
0:56.1	some speed bumps. Dr. Steve Dellenbach is vice president of the Intelligence Systems Division
1:01.5	at Southwest Research Institute and an expert in the field of automated driving. Thanks for
1:07.1	joining us, Steve. Happy to be here. Well, let's start at the beginning.
1:14.5	For those of us new to this concept, what is automated driving?
1:15.4	How do you define it?
1:21.0	Well, it's installing computers in your car that can control the acceleration, the braking, and the steering,
1:23.5	and then have sensors to perceive the environment,
1:29.1	and can essentially replace the human driver by using computer commands to control the vehicle to go where you wish to go.
1:35.7	So the car can do everything a human driver does just on its own. Is that how this works?
1:40.5	The ultimate scenario is that you may not even have a steering accelerator or braking your car.
1:44.8	You simply just have a vehicle and you program in that I want to go to the local grocery store, you want to go to a sporting event, kids tennis or something like that, and the car
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