Vehicle Autonomy: State of the art, opportunities and challenges for adaptation in Africa [Mini-Abstract]

Self-driving cars are projected to be ubiquitous in the future of transportation. A key factor driving the proliferation of this field has been its potential to reduce the 1.35 million lives lost globally to road accidents [1]. With 271,737 deaths in 2018 alone, the African region is the largest contributor to this fatality rate [1]. This project explores state of the art in self driving and identifies challenges and opportunities unique to the application of this technology on the African continent.

We have previously developed an affordable autonomous vehicle development platform [2] which combined with the knowledge and potential research direction proposed by this work could aid in the proliferation of self-driving research on the continent.

[ Date: 2018 ]

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Vehicle Autonomy: State of the art, opportunities and challenges for adaptation in Africa [Mini-Abstract]

Self-driving cars are projected to be ubiquitous in the future of transportation. A key factor driving the proliferation of this field has been its potential to reduce the 1.35 million lives lost globally to road accidents [1]. With 271,737 deaths in 2018 alone, the African region is the largest contributor to this fatality rate [1]. This project explores state of the art in self driving and identifies challenges and opportunities unique to the application of this technology on the African continent.

We have previously developed an affordable autonomous vehicle development platform [2] which combined with the knowledge and potential research direction proposed by this work could aid in the proliferation of self-driving research on the continent.

[ Date: 2018 ]

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Benedict Quartey
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Dreamer, artist and Computer Science PhD student advised by George Konidaris, in the Intelligent Robot Lab at Brown University.

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August 2022
Designed and taught Artificial Intelligence summer course at Brown University
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August 2021
Started CS Ph.D at Brown University advised by Prof. George Konidaris (The Intelligent Robot Lab)
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August 2020
Joined Nokwary as Principal Machine Learning Engineer
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