Could the ‘Pittsburgh left’ help Argo AI win the self-driving car race?
LA TimesTo understand why it’s so hard to make a car that drives itself, pay attention to how people cross the street next time you travel. Yet the driverless technology company Argo AI thinks it’s on the verge of solving the complicated problem well enough to safely introduce a robotaxi service next year. John Casesa, who steered the Argo AI investment as Ford’s head of global strategy, translates Salesky’s engineering-speak this way: “Having machines run over people, that would be unpalatable.” Casesa, now at Guggenheim Partners, said he’d watched Salesky in action and concluded he and co-founder Peter Rander were the team to midwife Ford’s driverless ambitions. Bryan Salesky is founder and chief executive of Argo AI Take Pittsburgh, which is known for the “Pittsburgh left.” That’s a maneuver wherein the driver of the first car in line at a stoplight signals to turn left. If robot cars don’t demonstrate reasonably “naturalistic” driving skills, he said, they’ll make people mad.
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