More On Self-Driving Cars

Greetings,

A while back, I blogged about self-driving cars as part of Uber's ride service in Pittsburgh.  Recently, Pittsburgh's mayor was interviewed on the emerging technology:

http://www.marketplace.org/2016/10/28/world/full-interview-pittsburgh-mayor-bill-peduto-steel-city-innovation-hub

Apparently, self-driving technology's emergence was helped by robotic research efforts at Carnegie Mellon University.  All these years later, you can see the hard work of early robotics researchers pay off.  Literally, you can watch self-driving cars roll down the street.  A few years ago, it would have sounded like something from a science fiction novel and today it is no dream.  That said, robotics researchers and engineers can only go so far.  It takes cooperation with government.  Some cities might not want self-driving cars on their streets.  For Pittsburgh, many city officials saw an emerging 21st century technology and wanted to get in on the ground floor.

On another note, marketers have put together a quiz that they claim can have predictive effects on which candidate a voter chooses:

http://features.marketplace.org/electionquiz/

While no measure is 100 percent accurate, it provides some insight into market segmentation.