Professor José del R Millán, who is leading the project, said the idea behind the research was a simple one: "to blend driver and vehicle intelligence together in such a way that eliminates conflicts between them, leading to a safer motoring environment".
On January 26, Sony announced its intention to acquire Israel-based Altair Semiconductor for $212 million and during the same week, Honda — eyeing Israel's vehicle intelligence technologies, apps and software — flew in a group of executives and engineers from Japan and North America to attend the equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd's annual summit in Jerusalem.
"All those papers which serve merely as vehicles of intelligence will be destroyed," he declared.
The Air Force report said that during the three and a half hours that the Predator tracked the vehicles, the intelligence analysts noted three times in a computer chat room that they had clearly spotted weapons among the people in the vehicles.
From the 2008 television movie, which was spun off the 1980s series, comes this new series about KITT, the supercharged Mustang equipped with a weapons system, a body capable of transforming into other vehicles, artificial intelligence brainy enough to hack into almost any system and the voice of Val Kilmer.
Add in one more thing: automation, robotics, self-driving vehicles, artificial intelligence, and e-commerce will continue to reduce the role of human labor in the economy, even as they create new jobs with skill premiums.
This root-and-branch determination turned what might have been a noble, if controversial, vehicle for intelligence reform into something destructive.
First, by forcing detainees to make unreliable statements, coercive interrogation proved to be a poor vehicle for intelligence gathering.
The other building damaged in the compound was the Patrols Branch, responsible for maintaining and dispatching the intelligence vehicles that prowl the Damascus area.
Through distributed intelligence, vehicles could cooperatively plan their routes to avoid congestion in critical areas – a 2005 study estimated traffic delays cost the US economy $78 billion.
