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Prediction Machines
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Prediction Machines

by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
April 2018
Beginner
272 pages
6h 20m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Fully Automated Decision Making

On December 12, 2016, Tesla Motors Club member “jmdavis” posted to a forum on electric vehicles, reporting on an experience he had had in his Tesla. While driving to work on a Florida freeway at about sixty miles per hour, his Tesla dashboard indicated a car ahead that he could not see because the truck immediately in front of him blocked his view. Suddenly, his emergency brakes kicked in, even though the truck ahead had not slowed. A second later, the truck veered into a shoulder to avoid hitting the car in front that had in fact stopped quickly because of debris on the road. The Tesla had decided to brake before the truck in front had done so, allowing jmdavis’s car to stop with plenty of room. He wrote: ...

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ISBN: 9781633695689