Trucks with INTUITION

Perceptive Automata partners with Volvo Trucks to demonstrate AI technology that can determine when pedestrians will cross the road.

The automotive and commercial vehicle industries are working on answers to a tremendous number of questions no one bothered to ask before. Volvo, for example, wants to know if vehicles can have human intuition.

It's not as absurd a concept as it might seem, if you limit the definition of intuition to the specific question of whether a pedestrian is about to cross the street in front of an autonomous vehicle (AV). A new project by Volvo Trucks and Perceptive Automata, an artificial intelligence (AI) start-up based in Boston and Silicon Valley, is using the fact that people don't really hide this information, to build better AVs. The challenge is getting machines to recognize the all-too-human clues.