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NASCAR leaps into the 21st century, Baidu launches robotaxis in Beijing and Paying hackers to crack the Pentagon
NASCAR leaps into the 21st century, Baidu launches robotaxis in Beijing and Paying hackers to crack the Pentagon
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6 minutes
Released:
May 11, 2021
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NASCAR is America’s favorite motorsport, but it has been historically resistant to change. With the launch of their Next Gen car, the sanctioning body has moved in a single leap from steel bodied, solid axle 1980s technology to full modern race car technology.Baidu’s Apollo AI business has launched a robotaxi system in Beijing, using factory equipped luxury cars in one of the future venues for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Combined with a larger, integrated traffic control system, Baidu hopes to take the lead in self driving technology.With millions of lines of code in most systems, making websites and databases secure is a major headache for the Pentagon. A new initiative from the Department of Defense aims to use a different approach: pay hackers to attack systems to find weaknesses.Access all episodes of This Week in Engineering on engineering.com TV along with all of our other series.
Released:
May 11, 2021
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Podcast episode
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