SYDE Chair interviewed on autonomous vehicle panel

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Professor and Chair Lisa Aultman-Hall was a panelist in the Alumni Speaker Series: "Autonomous Vehicles: The Hope and Hype of Self-Driving Cars".  Thanks to the rapid progress and intense research of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and autonomous vehicles systems, the advancement of self-driving vehicles is becoming a reality. Will you be “driven” by an autonomous vehicle in your lifetime? What are the wicked problems of self-driving cars? How will these vehicles fare against Canadian winters? Will self-driving cars become a shared service instead of a personal purchase? Will autonomous vehicles improve the transportation sector’s environmental record including its contributions to Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions? What technology are we waiting on? Join this webinar to learn about the future of self-driving vehicle as our panel of experts discuss the reality of autonomous vehicles from the research, industry and consumers’ point of view. 

Watch a recording of the event here: 

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