A 31-year-old EV driver says his electric Jaguar I-Pace suffered a malfunction that led to the car speeding up to over 90mph, and failing to respond to him pressing the brakes.
Nathan Owen told the Mail Online that on Wednesday his car malfunctioned, the dashboard showed that there was a battery problem, and the car started speeding up to the high 90s.
His brakes weren’t working, so he called 999, and was effectively escorted by a police convoy in front, behind and alongside him on the motorway.
After 35 minutes the car eventually stopped when it ran out of juice.
The Standard has contacted Jaguar Land Rover about Nathan’s incident - the company is currently looking into the details.
The Open University has secured funding to develop an instrument that can detect ice-water on Mars.
Ahead of manned missions to the Red Planet, the university is working on a new imaging instrument that uses infrared light to distinguish ice-water on the planet from frozen carbon dioxide.
The project, led by Dr Konstantin Stefanov, senior research fellow at the OU, is part of the International Mars Ice Mapper mission.
Dr Stefanov tells Tech & Science Daily how important water-ice will be for future manned missions to Mars.
Joe Biden is calling for a ban on AI voice impersonations.
In the State of the Union address on Thursday night, he said the US should “harness the promise of A.I. and protect us from its peril” and “Ban A.I. voice impersonation and more!”
It’s after ‘robocalls’ were made to voters in New Hampshire using an AI voice clone of the president, trying to persuade them not to vote, causing the FCC to issue a ban on such calls.
Generative AI could be a real threat when it comes to climate disinformation, according to a report which claims it could “supercharge” disinformation, through things like deep fakes of politicians.
The Climate Action Against Disinformation coalition says Gen-AI will allow climate deniers to more easily, cheaply and rapidly develop persuasive false content and spread it across social media, targeted advertising and search engines.
They said recent examples include campaigns like wind power being falsely blamed as a cause of whale deaths in New Jersey and power outages in Texas.
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