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"content": "\u003cp>The biggest tech companies want you to know that they're taking special care to ensure that their use of artificial intelligence to sift through mountains of data, analyze faces or build virtual assistants doesn't spill over to the dark side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But their efforts to assuage concerns that their machines may be used for nefarious ends have not been universally embraced. Some skeptics see it as mere window dressing by corporations more interested in profit than what's in society's best interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ethical AI\" has become a new corporate buzz phrase, slapped on internal review committees, fancy job titles, research projects and philanthropic initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moves are meant to address concerns over racial and gender bias emerging in facial recognition and other AI systems, as well as address anxieties about job losses to the technology and its use by law enforcement and the military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how much substance lies behind the increasingly public ethics campaigns? And who gets to decide which technological pursuits do no harm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google was hit with both questions when it formed a new board of outside advisers in late March to help guide how it uses AI in products. But instead of winning over potential critics, it sparked internal rancor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little more than a week later, Google bowed to pressure from the backlash and dissolved the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outside board fell apart in stages. One of the board's eight inaugural members quit within days and another quickly became the target of protests from Google employees who said her conservative views don't align with the company's professed values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As thousands of employees called for the removal of Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James, Google \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/jilliandonfro/2019/04/04/google-cancels-its-ai-ethics-board-less-than-two-weeks-after-launch-in-the-wake-of-employee-protest/#1f0aeb396e28\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disbanded the board\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees said James has made past comments that were anti-trans and anti-immigrant and should not be on an ethics panel. 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That environment is one of increasing concern that the corporate AI ethics campaigns lack teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think (Google's decision) reflects a broader public understanding that ethics involves more than just creating an ethics board without an institutional framework to provide for accountability,\" AI researcher Ben Wagner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google's original initiative fell into a tech industry trend that Wagner calls \"ethics-washing,\" which he describes as a superficial effort that's mostly a show for the public or lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's basically an attempt to pretend like you're doing ethical things and using ethics as a tool to reach an end, like avoiding regulation,\" said Wagner, an assistant professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. \"It's a new form of self-regulation without calling it that by name.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big companies have made an increasingly visible effort to discuss their AI efforts in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft, which often tries to position itself as an industry leader on ethics and privacy issues, published its principles around developing AI, released a short book that discussed the societal implications of the technology and has called for some government regulation of AI technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company's president even met with Pope Francis earlier this year to discuss industry ethics. Amazon recently announced it is helping fund federal research into \"algorithmic fairness,\" and Salesforce employs an \"architect\" for ethical AI practice, as well as a \"chief ethical and human use\" officer. It's hard to find a brand-name tech firm without similar initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a good thing that companies are studying the issue and seeking perspectives on industry ethics, said Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a research organization.[aside tag='technology, AI' label='The Future of Tech']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, he said, a company's CEO is tasked with deciding what suggestions on AI ethics to incorporate in business decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think overall it's a positive step rather than a fig leaf,\" he said. \"That said, the proof is in successful implementation. I think the jury is still out on that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact artificial intelligence can have on society has never been more clear, Etzioni said, and companies are reacting to studies about the power of recommendation algorithms and gender bias in AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Google's attempt shows, discussing the issues in the public eye also invites public scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google employees have had more success than other tech workers at demanding change at their company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet search behemoth dropped a contract with the Pentagon after employees pushed back on the ethical implications of using the company's AI technology to analyze drone video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after more than 2,400 Google employees signed a petition calling for James to be taken off the board, Google scrapped the board altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google had also faced dissent from its chosen councilmembers. 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AmazonBasics offers everything from bed frames and yoga mats to jumper cables. Warren is against a single company running the marketplace and manufacturing the goods sold because, according to her, that’s too much power in too few hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While consumers benefit from low prices, small businesses are losing. The audience broke into laughter and thunderous applause when Warren said that under her leadership, the losers would change. “The monopolist will make fewer monopoly profits. Boo hoo!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of scandal — privacy violations, election interference, mega hacks — Silicon Valley has emerged, early on, as a presidential campaign issue. Warren’s call is pushing her party to the left, a place where many Democrats aren’t ready to go given the party’s reliance on tech donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2018 midterms, \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.php?ind=B\">tech companies clearly favored Democrats\u003c/a> over the GOP: 69 percent of Amazon money went to Democratic federal campaigns, as did 79 percent of Facebook money and 83 percent of Alphabet (parent company of Google) money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be awkward,” said Sheila Krumholz. “They’re doing a dance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krumholz directs the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance. 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They combine all that information with data they acquire and purchase from third parties. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657315/heres-the-data-facebook-has-on-users-and-how-the-company-gathers-it\">The result is a big ball of data\u003c/a> about you that can be used by advertisers for marketing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘This digital dividend scheme is really a trick for consumers to get them to agree to allow their information to be collected even more.’\u003ccite>Jeffrey Chester, Center for Digital Democracy\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Most smaller data collectors, like say a free smartphone game, sell the data they gather to brokers. Companies that have platforms to reach eyeballs — like Google and Facebook — roll up their own balls of user data and charge advertisers to target marketing to its users based on that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his state of the state address, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>A mayor from a Bay Area city that tried to land big tech companies might be starting to look pretty smart after Amazon canceled its plans for a New York City headquarters. Activists and local politicians said New York had given up too much for too little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who refused to offer Amazon and another tech giant, Google, any incentives to locate in his city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s decision to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694740118/amazon-drops-plans-for-new-york-headquarters\">back out\u003c/a> of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713070/google-commences-1b-expansion-in-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City plan\u003c/a> followed opposition from activists and local politicians over the hefty tax breaks and incentives the company would’ve gotten when it moved in.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If you’re offering incentives, those are dollars you could use to be building out transit, to … supporting an ecosystem of talent development.’\u003ccite>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As big tech companies expand nationwide, cities continue to grapple with how to make sure they are benefiting. San Jose is one example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, when Amazon was looking for a city \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/09/18/551773552/cities-try-convincing-amazon-they-re-ready-for-its-new-headquarters\">to house its second headquarters\u003c/a>, Liccardo threw San Jose’s hat in the ring. But unlike the various cities that promised generous tax incentives, San Jose offered Amazon no money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re offering incentives, those are dollars you could use to be building out transit, to … supporting an ecosystem of talent development,” Liccardo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Amazon ultimately picked New York for one of its new campuses, many activists said it made no sense for one of the world’s wealthiest companies to get gig tax breaks and other incentives. It caused such a local outrage, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/14/694740118/amazon-drops-plans-for-new-york-headquarters\">Amazon announced it was pulling out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lesson for cities really ought to be, don’t take the bait. And don’t even offer the bait,” Liccardo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710256/the-google-land-rush\">The Google Land Rush\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710256/the-google-land-rush\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/welcometo_120518_final-1020x649.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Which is not to say he doesn’t want Big Tech headquartered in San Jose — Adobe, Cisco and eBay are based there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the only major city in the United States that actually has a smaller daytime population than nighttime population,” Liccardo says. “And, as a result, our residents spend a lot of time commuting. We’re right up there with the worst cities in commutes and obviously it drives up the housing costs. And so we get the worst of both worlds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726713\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-800x1117.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1117\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726713\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-800x1117.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-1020x1424.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-860x1200.jpg 860w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo. \u003ccite>(Tony Avelar/Invision/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Liccardo says when he was approached by Google, which was interested in building a campus in San Jose, the company didn’t ask for incentives and his government didn’t offer any. Rather, the mayor says the city is requiring that 25 percent of the housing built around the campus be rent-restricted and affordable. Like most of the Bay Area, the cost of living in San Jose has skyrocketed, largely driven by the tech boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, which is headquartered nearby Mountain View, is projected to bring \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/28/google-village-could-bring-24000-jobs-to-downtown-san-jose-study/\">tens of thousands of jobs\u003c/a> to San Jose. And Liccardo says the company agreed to fees on development to help fund affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google is planning to develop as much as 8 million square feet in downtown San Jose. The city lacks the allure of San Francisco or neighboring Palo Alto, so it’s not hard to see why some are so excited to develop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But plenty of locals and activists are not happy with Google moving in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Buchanan, the policy director at Working Partnerships USA, a community labor coalition, says that even if San Jose isn’t offering big tax breaks, that doesn’t mean Google’s move will be good for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we’re not offering billions in tax rebates,” he says. “But we’re offering really valuable public land in an area where prices are going through the roof. Google is just on the beneficial side of things going their way, without having to give anything back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many activists in the various cities where tech is expanding, Buchanan has questions about the details: How exactly is housing going to be kept affordable? And, of all those jobs coming to town, how many will go to locals?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723268/details-emerge-on-san-joses-100-million-pledge-to-build-more-affordable-housing\">Details Emerge on San Jose’s $100 Million Pledge to Build More Affordable Housing\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723268/details-emerge-on-san-joses-100-million-pledge-to-build-more-affordable-housing\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/67e331_eab4d73496c2473f9957aefb8a8fe1a9mv2_d_4000_2304_s_2.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When you look at Google’s workforce,” Buchanan says, “only about \u003ca href=\"https://diversity.google/annual-report/\">7 percent\u003c/a> are either Latino or African-American. You look at the population of San Jose, and it just looks incredibly different than who it is that Google is actually hiring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expensive housing has been a problem for people like Joseph Chavez. A few years ago, it was so bad that his family — like so many others — had to leave San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prices are so outrageous, we’ve got to move to the Central Valley to actually have affordable homes,” he explains. “So with Google coming here, it might be a bad idea. Rent’s going to go sky high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chavez works in construction, and he’s hoping to work on the new San Jose Google site. “More jobs means more opportunities. More opportunity means everybody gets to eat. If it pays well, you might be able to make it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether he’ll be able to make it in San Jose after the Google campus gets built, that’s an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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And so we get the worst of both worlds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726713\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-800x1117.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1117\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726713\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-800x1117.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-160x223.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-1020x1424.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400-860x1200.jpg 860w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/ap_454227697688_enl-ab56b9778e011bcd7ad96d8c9cba597df4712bef-s1400.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo. \u003ccite>(Tony Avelar/Invision/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Liccardo says when he was approached by Google, which was interested in building a campus in San Jose, the company didn’t ask for incentives and his government didn’t offer any. Rather, the mayor says the city is requiring that 25 percent of the housing built around the campus be rent-restricted and affordable. Like most of the Bay Area, the cost of living in San Jose has skyrocketed, largely driven by the tech boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google, which is headquartered nearby Mountain View, is projected to bring \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/28/google-village-could-bring-24000-jobs-to-downtown-san-jose-study/\">tens of thousands of jobs\u003c/a> to San Jose. And Liccardo says the company agreed to fees on development to help fund affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google is planning to develop as much as 8 million square feet in downtown San Jose. The city lacks the allure of San Francisco or neighboring Palo Alto, so it’s not hard to see why some are so excited to develop it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But plenty of locals and activists are not happy with Google moving in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Buchanan, the policy director at Working Partnerships USA, a community labor coalition, says that even if San Jose isn’t offering big tax breaks, that doesn’t mean Google’s move will be good for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we’re not offering billions in tax rebates,” he says. “But we’re offering really valuable public land in an area where prices are going through the roof. Google is just on the beneficial side of things going their way, without having to give anything back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many activists in the various cities where tech is expanding, Buchanan has questions about the details: How exactly is housing going to be kept affordable? And, of all those jobs coming to town, how many will go to locals?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723268/details-emerge-on-san-joses-100-million-pledge-to-build-more-affordable-housing\">Details Emerge on San Jose’s $100 Million Pledge to Build More Affordable Housing\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11723268/details-emerge-on-san-joses-100-million-pledge-to-build-more-affordable-housing\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/67e331_eab4d73496c2473f9957aefb8a8fe1a9mv2_d_4000_2304_s_2.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“When you look at Google’s workforce,” Buchanan says, “only about \u003ca href=\"https://diversity.google/annual-report/\">7 percent\u003c/a> are either Latino or African-American. You look at the population of San Jose, and it just looks incredibly different than who it is that Google is actually hiring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Expensive housing has been a problem for people like Joseph Chavez. A few years ago, it was so bad that his family — like so many others — had to leave San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prices are so outrageous, we’ve got to move to the Central Valley to actually have affordable homes,” he explains. “So with Google coming here, it might be a bad idea. Rent’s going to go sky high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chavez works in construction, and he’s hoping to work on the new San Jose Google site. “More jobs means more opportunities. More opportunity means everybody gets to eat. If it pays well, you might be able to make it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether he’ll be able to make it in San Jose after the Google campus gets built, that’s an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. 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For example, according to Human Rights Watch, women have always needed permission from a male guardian, usually a father or husband, to leave the country. In the past, paper forms were required prior to travel. The Absher app makes this process a lot more convenient for Saudi men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really designed with the men in mind,” says Rothna Begum, a senior researcher on women’s rights at Human Rights Watch. “Of course, it’s incredibly demeaning, insulting and humiliating for the women, and downright abusive in many cases, because you’re allowing men absolute control over women’s movements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Sen. 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Many others say decades as researchers try to conquer a number of obstacles. The vehicles themselves will debut in limited, well-mapped areas within cities and spread outward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657306/police-release-video-of-fatal-crash-involving-uber-self-driving-car\">fatal crash in Arizona\u003c/a> involving an Uber autonomous vehicle in March slowed progress, largely because it hurt the public's perception of the safety of vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies slowed research to be more careful. Google's Waymo, for instance, decided not to launch a fully autonomous ride-hailing service in the Phoenix area and will rely on human backup drivers to ferry passengers, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the problems that researchers must overcome to start giving rides without humans behind the wheel:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Snow and Weather\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When it's heavy enough to cover the pavement, snow blocks the view of lane lines that vehicle cameras use to find their way. Researchers so far haven't figured out a way around this. That's why much of the testing is done in warm-weather climates such as Arizona and California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy snow, rain, fog and sandstorms can obstruct the view of cameras. Light beams sent out by laser sensors can bounce off snowflakes and think they are obstacles. Radar can see through the weather, but it doesn't show the shape of an object needed for computers to figure out what it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1933667/should-self-driving-cars-have-ethics\">Should Self-Driving Cars Have Ethics?\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1933667/should-self-driving-cars-have-ethics\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/10/gettyimages-843272498-80183887af24176749966ee5ee5cd0e22bf46cf5-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It's like losing part of your vision,\" says Raj Rajkumar, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon University.\u003cbr>\nResearchers are working on laser sensors that use a different light beam wavelength to see through snowflakes, said Greg McGuire, director of the MCity autonomous vehicle testing lab at the University of Michigan. Software also is being developed so vehicles can differentiate between real obstacles and snowflakes, rain, fog, and other conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many companies are still trying to master the difficult task of driving on a clear day with steady traction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once we are able to have a system reliably perform in those, then we'll start working toward expanding to those more challenging conditions,\" said Noah Zych, Uber's head of system safety for self-driving cars.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pavement Lines and Curbs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Across the globe, roadway marking lines are different, or they may not even exist. Lane lines aren't standardized, so vehicles have to learn how to drive differently in each city. Sometimes there aren't any curbs to help vehicles judge lane width.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, in Pittsburgh's industrial \"Strip District,\" where many self-driving vehicles are tested, the city draws lines across the narrow lanes to mark where vehicles should stop for stop signs. Sometimes the lines are so far back and buildings are so close to the street that autonomous cars can't see traffic on the cross street if they stop at the line. One workaround is to program vehicles to stop for the line and creep forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is it better to do a double stop?\" asked Pete Rander, president of Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle company in which Ford has invested heavily. \"Since intersections vary, it's not that easy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dealing With Human Drivers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For many years, autonomous vehicles will have to deal with humans who don't always play by the rules. They double-park or walk in front of cars. Recently in Pittsburgh, an Argo backup driver had to take over when his car stopped during a right turn, blocking an intersection when it couldn't immediately decide whether to go around a double-parked delivery truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668523/distracted-autopilot\">Mark Fiore: Distracted Autopilot\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11668523/distracted-autopilot\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/distracted_051518_final-1180x753.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"Even if the car might eventually figure something out, it's shared space, and it's socially unacceptable\" to block traffic, Rander said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humans also make eye contact with other drivers to make sure they're looking in the right direction, something still being developed for autonomous vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add to that the antagonism that some feel toward robots. People have reportedly been harassing Waymo's autonomous test vehicles near Phoenix. The Arizona Republic reported in December that police is suburban Chandler have documented at least 21 cases in the past two years, including a man waiving a gun at a Waymo van and people who slashed tires and threw rocks. One Jeep forced the vans off the road six times.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Left Turns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Deciding when to turn left in front of oncoming traffic without a green arrow is one of the more difficult tasks for human drivers and one that causes many crashes. Autonomous vehicles have the same trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I think the things that humans have challenges with, we're challenged with as well.'\u003ccite>Waymo CEO John Krafcik\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Waymo CEO John Krafcik said in a recent interview that his company's vehicles are still encountering occasional problems at intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the things that humans have challenges with, we're challenged with as well,\" he said. \"So sometimes unprotected lefts are super challenging for a human, sometimes they're super challenging for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Consumer Acceptance\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The fatal Uber crash near Phoenix last year did more than push the pause button on testing. It also rattled consumers who someday will be asked to ride in self-driving vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658245/arizona-suspends-ubers-self-driving-vehicle-testing-after-fatal-crash\">Uber Won't Seek California Permit Renewal to Test Self-Driving Vehicles After Fatal Crash\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658245/arizona-suspends-ubers-self-driving-vehicle-testing-after-fatal-crash\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ntsb-uber-ff64f5bdd733572617aece2b246b2f335d0c9033-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Surveys taken after the Uber crash showed that drivers are reluctant to give up control to a computer. One by AAA found that 73 percent of American drivers would be too fearful to ride in a fully self-driving vehicle. That's up from 63 percent in late 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autonomous vehicle companies are showing test passengers information on screens about where the vehicles are headed and what its sensors are seeing. The more people ride, the more they trust the vehicles, says Waymo's Krafcik.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After they become more and more confident they rarely look at the screens, and they're on their phones or relaxing or sleeping,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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One workaround is to program vehicles to stop for the line and creep forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Is it better to do a double stop?\" asked Pete Rander, president of Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle company in which Ford has invested heavily. \"Since intersections vary, it's not that easy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dealing With Human Drivers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For many years, autonomous vehicles will have to deal with humans who don't always play by the rules. They double-park or walk in front of cars. 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People have reportedly been harassing Waymo's autonomous test vehicles near Phoenix. The Arizona Republic reported in December that police is suburban Chandler have documented at least 21 cases in the past two years, including a man waiving a gun at a Waymo van and people who slashed tires and threw rocks. One Jeep forced the vans off the road six times.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Left Turns\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Deciding when to turn left in front of oncoming traffic without a green arrow is one of the more difficult tasks for human drivers and one that causes many crashes. 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It also rattled consumers who someday will be asked to ride in self-driving vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658245/arizona-suspends-ubers-self-driving-vehicle-testing-after-fatal-crash\">Uber Won't Seek California Permit Renewal to Test Self-Driving Vehicles After Fatal Crash\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658245/arizona-suspends-ubers-self-driving-vehicle-testing-after-fatal-crash\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ntsb-uber-ff64f5bdd733572617aece2b246b2f335d0c9033-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Surveys taken after the Uber crash showed that drivers are reluctant to give up control to a computer. One by AAA found that 73 percent of American drivers would be too fearful to ride in a fully self-driving vehicle. 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And worker protests and organizing have never been a big part of Silicon Valley’s startup culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea was that these companies were supposed to be different — no stuffy bosses, no suits; instead, flat power structures and well-compensated employees who could focus on “making the world a better place.” But as the companies have grown into large multinational corporations, they now have increasingly dissatisfied workforces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Google walkout, Celie O’Neil-Hart demanded a number of things, including that the company put an employee on its board. “When we put our Noogler hats on,” Hart told the crowd, “you told us to have an owner’s mindset. You told us, ‘You aren’t just employees. You are owners.’ Well, the owners say time is up!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noogler hats are given to Google employees when they are first hired. They’re multicolored caps with little propellers. The hats embody the startup vibe of Google’s past. But today the company has over 85,000 full-time employees, and it’s close to joining Amazon and Apple as America’s only trillion-dollar corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681049/the-latest-tech-disruption-labor-organizing\">Organizing in Silicon Valley\u003c/a> didn’t start with relatively well-paid tech employees, but instead with the industry’s shadow workforce — independent contractors. And there are tens of thousands of them. At Google they reportedly make up half the staff, doing everything from cooking to coding, but they don’t get high salaries or perks like free lunches and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, contractors began organizing under a group called Silicon Valley Rising. They have achieved some things, like higher pay and unions for some bus drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it wasn’t until Donald Trump’s election in 2016 that full-time tech employees began organizing in earnest. A group called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679302/in-a-direct-challenge-to-their-employers-tech-workers-begin-to-organize\">Tech Workers Coalition emerged\u003c/a> to complement Silicon Valley Rising. It has workers of all types, from contractors to full-time programmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the first things I noticed when I came to the Bay Area and started working in the tech industry was the blatant discrimination and basically a class system,” said Google employee Stephanie Parker. “How people were treated along the same old lines of race, class and gender that you see in any other industry — and even more stratified here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a woman of color working in the tech industry, Parker said she has often felt alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My story of feeling isolated and that no one else understands, of feeling that my co-workers just want to focus on building tools and building apps and are not worried about these larger issues — that story is present in so many tech workplaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last year, workers at different tech firms have protested openly. At Microsoft, they spoke out against the company’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At Amazon, they criticized the company for providing facial recognition software to police departments. And at Salesforce, they held a rally against the company’s work with Customs and Border Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech executives like CEO Sundar Pichai of Google are trying to placate workers. He spoke with The New York Times about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702872/google-employees-begin-global-walkout-to-protest-companys-treatment-of-women\">Google walkout\u003c/a>, which the company eventually supported publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moments like this show that we didn’t always get it right,” Pichai said. “We are committed to doing better and we’re listening to employees, which is part of why I think today is important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some workers say they are scared of speaking up. Silicon Valley companies make them sign nondisclosure agreements and discourage them from talking to the press. At a recent protest, one worker active in the Tech Workers Coalition was afraid to give his name for fear of losing his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we start to grow and as we get stronger,” he said, “it will be easier for people to stand up and to be more public about this. For the time being, we have to carve out a way to take action that still protects us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes the organizing is a signal to other tech workers: You aren’t alone. And he says if enough of them come together, maybe they can create workplaces that look a little more like the Silicon Valley they imagined.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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