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Viodi View – 05/15/17
It has often been said that there are three kinds of people, “those who do the action, those who watch the action and those who wonder what just happened. I have often found my self in the latter group. Still, watching Jensen Huang’s keynote at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference I have to wonder if Huang’s…
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Viodi View – 04/21/17
It is the meta or the back story that is sometimes as interesting as the story. In my recent interview with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, the back story is how approachable he continues to be, even in his new high-pressure and high-profile role. Devoid of handlers, we had an engaging and impromptu conversation that ranged from…
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The Human-Machine Vehicle Interface – Don’t Forget the Human
Long before Elon Musk’s recent announcement about his brain-machine start-up, Neuralink, Michael Robinson was pondering these things in his autonomous car design with the Lancia Design Center in the late 1990s. And, as depicted in the above infographic, it is the human-machine interface that will play a big role in the acceptance of autonomous vehicles.…
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Viodi View – 03/27/17
As readers may observe, the publication frequency of the Viodi View newsletter has slowed a bit in the last several months from once every two to once every three weeks. The slowing isn’t for lack of content, as there are literally dozens of interviews from shows like CES that are sitting on the hard-drive or in…
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Self Driving versus Driverless – A Mobility Update with Alain Kornhauser #CES2107
Driverless is like an elevator, explains Princeton Professor, Dr. Alain Kornhauser, in the above interview filmed at International CES2107. The difference between driverless and self-driving is that self-driving allows human involvement in the operation of the car (e.g. it has a steering wheel). His explanation simplifies the multiple levels of autonomous operation, as defined by SAE (see…
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Viodi View – 03/07/17
Continuity of Experience at #NCTCWEC 2017 “Continuity of experience” was a recurring theme at NCTC’s 2017 Winter Education Conference. Keynote speaker, Bruce Leichtman of LRG explained that this means creating user interfaces that transcend device, making it easy for customers to discover and view content wherever and how they want. He emphasized that this means creating new…
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