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Reimagining the Boardroom for an Age of Virtual Reality and AI

Harvard Business Review

According to Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google, robots won’t become more clever than humans until 2029. Progressive chairs will soon start appointing more board members with digital backgrounds so they can use data and predictive analytic tools to more precisely gauge where and how the business can grow profitably.

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Autonomous Vehicles: A Winding Road Toward US Adoption

UVA Darden

In April, NHTSA finalized a standard that requires pedestrian automatic emergency braking (AEB) on all passenger cars and light trucks by September 2029. In the document, NHTSA shared that the four primary functions that the agency should focus on are sensing, perception, planning and control. Progress has been slow.