https://marc.sitemasonry.gmu.edu/ en https://marc.sitemasonry.gmu.edu/news/2024-08/missy-cumings-quotes-wall-street-journal <span>Missy Cumings quotes to Wall Street Journal</span> <span><span>Martha Bushong</span></span> <span>Mon, 08/05/2024 - 10:26</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--30-70"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_associated_people" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-associated-people"> <h2>In This Story</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-associated-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">People Mentioned in This Story</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/profiles/cummings" hreflang="en">Missy Cummings</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:body" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasebody"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Body</div> <div class="field__item"><p>Jalopnik: Missy Cummings’ (CEC) quotes to Wall Street Journal are cited in an article about the shortcomings of Tesla’s Autopilot and Full-Self Drive software. Also in Yahoo! News.</p> <p><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjalopnik.com%2Fautopilot-s-reliance-on-only-cameras-is-tesla-s-fundam-1851608787&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cmbushong%40gmu.edu%7Cd1a6b9f6226140aabab608dcb19c9fe0%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C638580533488072951%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=XtvYdON58efkXiWwiT17nTgqN9oPZmvN8xHoVvYUmWU%3D&amp;reserved=0" title="Full story">Read the story.</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_content_topics" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-content-topics"> <h2>Topics</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-content-topics field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Topics</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/171" hreflang="en">In the Media</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:26:23 +0000 Martha Bushong 226 at https://marc.sitemasonry.gmu.edu https://marc.sitemasonry.gmu.edu/news/2024-01/npr-missy-cummings-cec-quoted-story-about-self-driving-taxi-startup-cruise <span>NPR: Missy Cummings (CEC) quoted in story about self-driving taxi startup Cruise</span> <span><span>Tama Moni</span></span> <span>Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:57</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--30-70"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:body" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasebody"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Body</div> <div class="field__item"><h2>From the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/12/30/1222083720/driverless-cars-gm-cruise-waymo-san-francisco-accidents" title="NPR article on Cruise startup company">article by Dara Kerr</a></h2> <figure class="quote">"They were the bull in a china shop. They just kept charging ahead," says Missy Cummings, a George Mason University professor who runs the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center. "When we sat around and discussed who was going to have the worst accident in that crowd, everyone knew it was going to be Cruise."</figure> </div> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_content_topics" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-content-topics"> <h2>Topics</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-content-topics field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Topics</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/151" hreflang="en">Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:57:26 +0000 Tama Moni 126 at https://marc.sitemasonry.gmu.edu https://marc.sitemasonry.gmu.edu/news/2023-07/missy-cummings-interviewed-australia-broadcasting-corporation-abc-reliability <span>Missy Cummings interviewed by Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on reliability of autonomous systems</span> <span><span>Tama Moni</span></span> <span>Tue, 07/11/2023 - 09:36</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--30-70"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_associated_people" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-associated-people"> <h2>In This Story</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-associated-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">People Mentioned in This Story</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/profiles/cummings" hreflang="en">Missy Cummings</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:body" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasebody"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Body</div> <div class="field__item"><p>"People will believe so much in Teslas in America, that they will get in the backseat and let the car do the driving for them."</p> <div class="align-center"> <div class="field field--name-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/g/files/yyqcgq551/files/2023-07/MissyCummings-CECnews-thumbnail-1x1_221108507.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="Missy Cummings, professor and Director of MARC in a robotics lab" loading="lazy" /></div> </div> <p>Missy Cummings, Professor and Director of the Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC) talks with the Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC) about human error when using autonomous systems technologies.</p> <p>Listen to the<strong> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/are-humans-too-trusting-of-autonomous-systems-/102539576" target="_blank">podcast interview</a> </strong>with ABC. Cummings begins at 0:49 mark.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_content_topics" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-content-topics"> <h2>Topics</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-content-topics field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Topics</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/141" hreflang="en">Autonomous Cars</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/111" hreflang="en">robotics and autonomous systems</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/151" hreflang="en">Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 11 Jul 2023 13:36:39 +0000 Tama Moni 91 at https://marc.sitemasonry.gmu.edu https://marc.sitemasonry.gmu.edu/news/2023-06/washington-post-quotes-missy-cummings-teslas-autopilot <span>Washington Post quotes Missy Cummings on Tesla&#039;s Autopilot</span> <span><span>Rena Malai</span></span> <span>Mon, 06/12/2023 - 13:11</span> <div class="layout layout--gmu layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--30-70"> <div class="layout__region region-first"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_associated_people" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-associated-people"> <h2>In This Story</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-associated-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">People Mentioned in This Story</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/profiles/cummings" hreflang="en">Missy Cummings</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="layout__region region-second"> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:body" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasebody"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Body</div> <div class="field__item"><p>A Washington Post article titled '17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla's Autopilot' quotes Missy Cummings, director of George Mason University's Autonomy and Robotics Center, on the troubling surge in Tesla crashes.</p> <p>"Tesla is having more severe — and fatal — crashes than people in a normal data set,” she said in response to the figures analyzed by The Post.</p> <p>One likely cause, she said, is the expanded rollout over the past year and a half of Full Self-Driving, which brings driver-assistance to city and residential streets.</p> <p>“The fact that … anybody and everybody can have it. … Is it reasonable to expect that might be leading to increased accident rates? Sure, absolutely.”</p> <p>She says in the article the number of fatalities compared to overall crashes was also a concern.</p> <p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/">Read the full article here.</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div data-block-plugin-id="field_block:node:news_release:field_content_topics" class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodenews-releasefield-content-topics"> <h2>Topics</h2> <div class="field field--name-field-content-topics field--type-entity-reference field--label-visually_hidden"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Topics</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/176" hreflang="en">AI</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/171" hreflang="en">In the Media</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/111" hreflang="en">robotics and autonomous systems</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/151" hreflang="en">Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:11:55 +0000 Rena Malai 171 at https://marc.sitemasonry.gmu.edu