UMTRI Distinguished Speaker Series with Professor Ragunathan "Raj" Rajkumar

Autonomous vehicles have long promised significant benefits to society in terms of safety, economic productivity, convenience, and improvements in the quality of living for those unable to drive. Costly ups and downs have unfortunately been numerous along this promised pathway to a revolution in transportation. This talk will highlight the challenges and opportunities to make autonomous vehicles safe and scalable, while offering the view that the solutions need to take a macroscopic view that is larger than a single domain, like artificial intelligence. The presentation will discuss how Carnegie Mellon University tackles the essential safety, cost, and scalability necessities for deploying autonomous consumer passenger vehicles.