It is true that there are types of
failures that help us grow to
become better, more mature people
but there are others that simply
it would be better to avoid if only for
the devastating effects they can
I can do my department
say my lab that deals with
this second type of failures ie
to develop technological solutions that
they help us avoid these
applications configurations
interest are the most numerous the most
varied above all auto motive branch
industrial automation very much
important for our area
the avionics the biomedical the defense e
by saying
in the jargon they are called time systems
real safety critical that is i
systems that simply can not
failing must always compute
correct result and this result
correct should be computed within well
certain times often after having
worked for years lately we have
decided to deepen
perhaps the most interesting of these
sectors
surely the most complex is the most
dangerous that of the car moti a
one million and three hundred thousand are the dead each
year on our roads orders of
the number of injured is higher
keep in mind that at this moment there is
more or less a billion cars
in the world made a quick calculation comes
out of a higher risk factor
one percent
here you imagine now being in one
stop world in a parallel universe
where tomorrow one of us invents
the car
according to you which country as a government
it would allow to put in
trade a product with a similar one
risk factor and not only is it too
the most complex product among those
that I mentioned at least from the point of
computer view
you see some systems that
intuitively they could seem more
complex
the space shuttle has more or less half
million lines of code a plane of
current line reaches ten times as much
more or less 5 million lines of code
enormity
well a high-end machine that
today we buy a number of lines of
code more or less on 100 million up
to 300 million not to mention the number
of cable wiring processors
connections between the various components
electronic
if we put all these together
connections will arrive more or less between the
3 and 4 km are impressive numbers the
number of processors controllers
when I was little, there were none
it seems maybe 12 for the basic components
now I am on the hundred and continue
evolve the cost of electronics now
in a vehicle has reached more or less
together with the validation of the testing the
50 percent of the cost of the whole
vehicle
eighty percent in vehicles a
electric drive
only that these systems are only in
minimum part responsible for the deaths of
which I said before is true they were
responsible for withdrawal campaigns of
mass that have had great impacts on the
web about car motive builders
but the main manager is a
other and you see there’s us
aci in a recent calculation that has
fact has estimated that three out of four
of fatal accidents on our own
roads are due to distraction
of man we know well who of us
he did not have sleep shots he did not
resisted the temptation of di
check the cell phone while at the
guide
well what the technology can do in
this sense can help us
we can replace ourselves in some cases
the companies we work with call
these systems guardian angel angels
custodians
precisely because they intervene when yes
they realize that there is a moment of
danger that the driver is not
up to the situation eo lo
they warn or even take the
control of this machine
we are already talking about the conditions
that will bring to the machines that yes
they drive science-fiction scenarios alone
when I talk with my friends it seems not
they believe me when I tell him that soon
we will actually have them between us already
in the 50s it was expected to arrive
such machines here you see a business e
not an advertisement of those years in
this in particular of a company
US electric where it was used for
imminent arrival of these cars
in this case through devices
integrated into the road
here 70 years later we have nothing
this kind on the streets
I say that instead, this time we are
we are close to having them the reason
it is substantially technological and all
largest hardware manufacturers of the
systems that go on your electors i
your personal computers
here they are all developing
high-end processors specifically
for the automotive market are
processors that are orders of magnitude
more powerful than complex ones
that we currently have on ours
devices say so much so that the
machine will be the most powerful computer
that we will have in the near future
imagine all the applications that
this calculation power could
to behave personally I would be a lot
glad to spend a lot
the two hours I spend each more useful
day from Mantua where I live to come here
modena or even just to rest
I am convinced that certain critical problems
like traffic and search for
parking would be significantly
improved think for example one
autonomous machine that accompanies us in the
point where we want to go
and then you go to park alone
elsewhere it may seem like a scenario
really sci-fi but I am
willing to bet with anyone who wants that
within ten years these systems of
we’ll see on the streets
probably much less is it
therefore of applications that still do not
we can not even imagine imagined a
all the work they are doing in
google in huber on car sharing is one
revolution is a real one
Revolution
that does not involve only the world
of the car dead but a whole series of
sectors and I am convinced that yes
it will expand very quickly
as well as has rapidly spread the
smartphone technologies mobile phones for
which we have passed in ten years since not
know what they were
but you can not do without it
machine will be the first system of
artificial intelligence capillarmente
widespread in the area
isaac asimov one of the greatest fathers
of science fiction literature
as well as inventor of the laws of
robotics
I do not know if he would have imagined the first ones
there were four robots among us
wheels
surely there is still much to do
we know it in the field of security
there are different technologies that we are
helping develop to improve but the
machine artificial intelligence has
in itself competitive advantages
compared to the man who is definitely worth
worth considering we think about time
reaction
the man between recognizing an obstacle
decide that it must restrain and implement the
braking more or less passes a second
according to studies a second in
highway we make more or less 35 meters
from here to over the end of the theater is
a car through the algorithms
that they are developing will allow
do it within a few milliseconds e
especially speaking also to others
machines that are around the support
infrastructure that we could have for
also identify other obstacles that
they are out of our sight
but the main advantage is its own
that see with failure when man
fails in these cases and unfortunately not
he can tell it
or simply can not transfer
the experience fully matured at
other individuals the other drivers
this is not the case with intelligence
artificial we are on some projects
Europeans where you are trying to
collect critical scenarios and
accident scenarios
through which then the algorithms of
autonomous driving will be improved
the techniques currently used for
do these autopilot substantially
they are machine learning techniques that
they learn through the error then
they need error cases for
improve to avoid reconnecting
the same error
here is a sort of
distributed intelligence that slowly
evolves through an experience up to
become even safer than it is
is a machine today driven by man
let me finish one more
time paying attention to this
revolution that will not be just one
revolution in the world of transport but
will involve a whole series of
professions that now maybe we think
also immune to intellectual professions
will have economic social impacts that
absolutely necessary to evaluate and
do it now
let’s say it’s not a revolution to which
we can oppose it because it will happen
anyway, but the revolution that goes
including anticipated and accompanied
always putting the fashion man in the center
that he is not the man at the service of
technology but technology remains at
service of man
not doing it would probably be the
our biggest mistake
thank you
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