Abstract
There has been a lot of technical advances in autonomous driving technology since the 2007 DARPA Urban challenge. The gaps to a wide-scale commercial deployment have certainly narrowed in the past 17 years. Unfortunately, these gaps remain. The benefits to society remain clear, especially for fast growing cities. Autonomous vehicles will directly address the manpower shortage issue that many cities face, reduce manpower costs, increase safety, and provide greater reliability and efficiency to the transportation system. This talk will discuss some of the challenges that remain in implementing such a system.
Speaker’s Profile
James Fu
Co-CTO & VP Engineering, Venti Technologies
Co-Founder, Venti Singapore
Dr James Fu is the co-CTO & VP Engineering of Venti Technologies, and co-Founder of Venti Singapore. At Venti, he currently oversees the overall development of the autonomy system to achieve a fully driverless system with increased safety, improved efficiency, and lowered reliance on manpower. His career in autonomous vehicles took off when he first led research advancements at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). Here, he launched the world’s first public trial of self-driving golf carts at Singapore’s Chinese Gardens in 2014 with 500 public rides. He then built and led the founding technical team at nuTonomy – an MIT spin-off that developed software for self-driving cars – and oversaw nuTonomy’s technology development as it became a top global robotaxi company, resulting in a 450m acquisition by Delphi/Aptiv. He oversaw the growth of the technical team in Singapore from 10 to over 200. He worked with the Land Transport Authority in Singapore to build national standards, developed public education programs, and defined core behaviors of self-driving vehicles, operating principles, and regulation. James holds 10 core autonomy patents under his name.