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<Bliss Recap of “The Near Future Impact — the world of auto-pilot/self-driving is coming up!” by Patrick on March 7,2020:

Date: March 7, 2020 -

Host: Patrick

Topic: “The Near Future Impact — the world of auto-pilot/self-driving is coming up!” by Patrick on March 7,2020:

Attendees: Angel, David, Antonio, Ellen Huang, Peter Sung, Daniel Young, Willy, Annie, Mike Young

Meeting photo: https://photos.app.goo.gl/LGFmGJdokjPRspjS7

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Meeting started…

Our informative host, Patrick, started the meeting punctually and proceeded as interesting and attendees-friendly way as before!

Sharing Session: The most impressive (car) accident in your life
In this session, Host Patrick recalled us of the * accidents* occurring in the past. After the sharing session, he deliberately linked the following session to indicate how auto-pilot can help in this regard.
 

How hi-tech helps solve the daily or foreseeable traffic problems

Secondly, he informed us with video clips about how the tech research can help solve the traffic jam or human driving failures.
 

Auto-pilot Evolvement from Level 0-Level 5

Followingly, he came up with the evolvement with different specification and d description:

Level 0, driven by horse
Level 1, basic auto brake, ex. Toyota.
Level 2, Partial driving automation, ex. Tesla.
Level 3, (conditional Driving automation, with little human intervention
Level 3 "eye-off" 2D system control with human intervention
Level 4 "mind off" with the help of automation

Level 5 full automation without human control, can we say it is autonomous? Ex. Robotic taxi.
 

 Debates: Pros and Cons 

1. Do you agree at the world without human intervention?
2. If the driver chooses auto driving AI should be fully responsible for injuries or any casualties?

Pros: Yes .it help avoid human errors and the responsibility should lay on the AI, of course!
Cons:

⭕️Even in autonomous state, it is the designers who face " moral decision” because they are the ones for numerous AI. The decision-making will only fall on some, a kind of “oligarchy”.  As Most of people are so dependent on AI, they also lose their “Free Will”, the most precious part of human beings!

⭕️. For private automation, too many cars make waste of the time, resource, deepening the rich-poor gap and hackers ' concern. 

Host’s Feedback

Hosting the meeting is always not unilateral lecturing & forwarding, but interactively nurtured by everyone's illuminating feedbacks.

Appreciate for everyone's participation reinvigorating our minds of thinking. Sometimes we do need to pull ourselves out of the minds immersed in long murky working weeks.

Attendees’ Feedback

⭕️How knowledgeable Patrick has been at the weekend gathering!  Ha-ha, I escaped our area speech contest and sneaked in to Bliss’ meeting.  It was worth it.

Patrick, as a high tech or auto savvy, has demonstrated his insight and foresight for future market about Autonomous steering.  Although the future is unknown, we could invent, create and foresee picturing how a Utopia-like” country will be born.  Am I day dreaming!  Well if there is a mission statement established, we can make it.  I have truly immersed myself into Pat’s presentation, though I was late. I think Pat has a style that he made the meetup fun and entertaining yet imaginable.

Thanks to Pat for his awesome sharing. If it is measurable, a ‘A plus’ is presenting to Patrick.

⭕️Thanks to Patrick‘s fascinating sharing of autonomous driving technology. Through the discussions of our driving experience, Patrick guided us to learn how AI could assist us to have safer and smarter driving. We also learned the different levels of self-driving and actual applications in the current car market. By watching the videos of self-driving cars, it visualized our future life with all the benefits brought by these cutting-edge technologies (ex. self-driving delivery, Robo taxi..etc.).
Although I still have concern for a world controlled by AI, I do appreciate all the brilliant ideas and creativity driven by self-driving technology and look forward to more advantages provided by future technology. Imagine if self-driving cars were ubiquitous now, it surely could help us to mitigate infection of CONVID 19. Restaurants should have no worries to deliver lunch boxes to hospitals. No drivers would be infected COVID 19 during transportation. Thank you for this informative and provocative meeting. You also demonstrated a successful meeting with a vivid atmosphere and perfect time management. I enjoyed this meeting and learned a lot. Thanks again.

Reflection-

Once-a-year meeting hosted by Patrick always empowers us with useful information and knowledge. Besides its advantages of the auto-pilot, the meeting also highlighted its defects and moral thinking along! We appreciate Patrick and all the attendees for in-depth discussion from which the meeting broadens our horizons and offers us with a wonderful guidance to steer the ways to either automated or autonomous driving!