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Speaker urges AI in trucks for safety, cites crashes involving immigrants
Summary
An unidentified speaker at a House committee hearing argued that artificial-intelligence driving systems in commercial trucks could have prevented several fatal crashes and pointed to personal experience with Tesla driving features, while making partisan claims about immigration priorities.
An unidentified speaker told a House committee that artificial-intelligence systems in commercial trucks could have prevented several fatal crashes, citing multiple incidents involving immigrant drivers and describing personal experience using Tesla driving features.
"I wanna talk about where AI might have been useful," the speaker said, and went on to list examples they said could have been avoided with AI-enabled safety systems, including a crash the speaker said involved "an illegal immigrant from Kyrgyzstan" that "might not have killed 4 people," an October…
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