—- * * FOR NEW STUDENTS ** ————————————— ————

1. 🔊 What industry do you work in and what is your role?
2. 🔊 What are your responses in your role / position?
3. 🔊 Can you describe to the function of your workplace / company?
4. 🔊 How many departments, how many offices. National or International?
5. 🔊 What are the minimum requirements for employment ie Education or Experience?
6. 🔊 How many opportunities are there to ‘move up the ladder’?
7. 🔊 What is the process for changing job roles ie Interview? Test?

————————————————– —— ——————————————– ——- —

🔊 General discussion about your workweek:

1. 🔊 Current projects? Deadlines? Opportunities?
2. 🔊 Anything of interest happening?

————————————————– —— ——————————————– ——–

 

Script

1. 🔊 Top U.S. safety investigators reviewing numerous Tesla crashes in which drivers were using the company’s Autopilot feature at the time of those accidents are highly critical of the system’s technical limitations and the Transportation Department’s failure to set rules for so-called partially automated drive systems.

2. 🔊 The National Transportation Safety Board has been analyzing four different accidents, including a March 2018 crash in which Tesla Model X owner Walter Huang died when his vehicle drove straight into a traffic barrier in Mountain View, California, that it failed to detect. Huang was relying on Autopilot to drive for him, and apparently playing a game on his phone at the time of the accident. 

3. 🔊 NTSB determined Autopilot lacks the ability to monitor whether drivers are paying attention and that Tesla doesn’t limit its use to specific conditions, such as highway-only driving. Investigators also blasted the DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for ignoring its requests to set rules for Autopilot and similar systems.

4.🔊 Huang’s “tragic crash clearly demonstrates the limitations of advanced driver assistance systems that are available to consumers today. There is not a vehicle currently available to U.S. consumers that is self-driving. Period,” NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt said at the conclusion of Tuesday’s hearing in Washington. 

5.🔊 “We urge Tesla to work on improving its Autopilot technology and for NHTSA to fulfill its oversight responsibility to ensure that corrective action is taken when necessary. It’s time to stop enabling drivers in any partially automated vehicle to pretend that they have driverless cars. Because they don’t have driverless cars.” 

6.🔊 “It’s time to stop enabling drivers in any partially automated vehicle to pretend that they have driverless cars. Because they don’t have driverless cars.” NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt. While consumers await the arrival of true self-driving vehicles that don’t require a human at the wheel, such as those being developed by Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo, Elon Musk has touted Tesla Autopilot as the most sophisticated partially automated driving system currently available. He even boasted last April that Teslas would achieve “full self-driving” capability by the end of 2019. That didn’t happen, though the internet is awash in videos of drivers asleep at the wheel as their Teslas barrel down the highway.

Tesla Driver Caught On Camera Apparently Asleep At The Wheel | NBC Nightly News

7.🔊 Autopilot has been tied to numerous accidents starting with a fatal 2016 crash in Florida in which a distracted Model S owner died when his car slammed into a truck crossing his path. NHTSA investigated that accident but didn’t find Tesla at fault, in part because of its own lack of guidelines for Autopilot-like systems. 

8.🔊 NHTSA, the main regulator for U.S. auto safety, hasn’t proactively taken steps to ensure automated driving technology is safe and used properly, said NTSB Director Rob Molloy. “Fixing problems after people die is not a really good highway approach,” he said.

1.🔊 Do you think cars with autopilot will become commonplace in the future? Do you want to drive yourself even if you have the option of an autopilot vehicle?

2.🔊 If a car is on auto-pilot mode and crashes, who do you think should be blamed? 

3.🔊 Do you think we will live to see a day when we can fly our own cars?

 

Keywords

1. 🔊 Critical = 1.extremely serious or dangerous 2.saying that someone or something is bad or wrong:
2. 🔊 Detect = to notice something that is partly hidden or not clear, or to discover something, especially using a special method:
3. 🔊 Specific = relating to one thing and not others; particular:
4. 🔊 Blasted = to damage or destroy something, or to injure or kill someone, using a gun or a bomb blast somebody with something
5. 🔊 Urge = to strongly suggest that someone does something
6. 🔊 Touted = to praise something or someone in order to persuade people that they are important or worth a lot
7. 🔊 Sophisticated = having a lot of experience of life, and good judgment about socially important things such as art, fashion etc
8. 🔊 Awash = covered with water or another liquid, containing too many things or people of a particular kind
9. 🔊 Proactively = making things happen or change rather than reacting to events
10. 🔊 Comprised = to consist of particular parts, groups etc