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Bonus: Designing for Trust in Urban Systems with Ryan Powell of Waymo
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In this episode from ID's Shapeshift conference, Ryan Powell shares how Waymo uses design to tackle one of the world's most pressing challenges: the 1.35 million annual traffic fatalities and 50 million injuries from vehicle crashes.
Key Topics
- The challenge of building trust between passengers and autonomous vehicles in the absence of human drivers
- The evolution from Phoenix's suburban environment to San Francisco's dense urban challenges, requiring "legible motion" and LED signals to communicate with pedestrians and other road users
- Working with cities as stakeholders to integrate autonomous vehicles into existing transportation systems, including first-and-last-mile solutions for public transit
- Growing evidence that autonomous vehicles are making roads safer, particularly for vulnerable road users like pedestrians and cyclists
- The importance of maintaining human-centered design principles when developing AI applications, focusing on human needs rather than technological capabilities
Additional Resources
ID’s Shapeshift Summit: Shaping Our Future with AI
Institute of Design at Illinois Tech
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