Texas A&Houston Chronicle
KI-TEK What a special occasion. The four of us gathered here to celebrate the partial reactivation of our phones as well as our son’s upcoming job interview with a national franchise. Ki-Tek tries to deliver a heartfelt speech like a TV patriarch but severely lacks the gravitas. Chung...
Tounderstandthechallenge,imagineacarthatsuddenlymeetssomepedestriansintheroad. Evenwithbraking,it?stoolatetoavoidacrash.Sothecar?sartificialintelligencemustdecide whethertotakeasharpturn.Tosavethepedestrians,shouldthecarswerve(突然转向)offthe roadorswerveintooncomingtraffic? Whatifsuchoptionswouldlikelykillthecar?
A car darts into your path. A pedestrian wearing dark clothes at night scurries across the street. A truck emerges from the thick fog as you barrel toward it. Every driver knows the terrible sensation. Fear and adrenaline race up your spine, and you slam on the brakes. With luck or ...
1). We contrast blunt impact when the vehicle hits an adult pedestrian dummy to when it hits a child dummy (see Fig. 1). We further compare injury risks when the vehicle travels at low, moderate and high speed, within the range of current speed limits (6–8 km/h/3.7–5 mph). ...
A car being hammered striking another car along with it while the driver of the towing truck is attempting to change lanes. A vehicle drifts to another lane and hits an oncoming automobile, particularly at a corner as a result of bad negotiation of this curve from the driver of the towing...
(2018) showed that the critical gap for a pedestrian to cross and the self-reported stress level did not change significantly between vehicle conditions (i.e., a car with self-driving sign vs. a driver reading a newspaper). Overall, these naturalistic observation studies deploying Wizard of ...
A few minutes before the race, Little Friend jumped off my son’s hand and landed on the sidewalk. But pedestrian traffic was heavy and unpredictable. Little Friend was in danger. So my son knelt and reached out his hand. Little Friend came back. ...
Turns out, you parked behind it over a pedestrian crosswalk, leading the police to tow it in the hour you were at dinner. You know this because you returned to the restaurant confused and found the one server who can speak English and saw what happened. He goes above and beyond to confi...
Imagine a river, a wrought iron pedestrian mini-Sydney harbour bridge, but two of them, using a mid-stream foundation to provide the fulcrum point where the two meet, painted a cheerful green and, later, as the sun sets, beautifully lighted. Your eyes then turn to the equally well-lit ...