Iamon iam on my i am on my way to iam on mywaytoa i am on my way to a reported incident on 1 off las vegass busiest highways. With the last rain falling over four months ago, busiest highways. With the last rain falling overfour months ago, the audley road is mixed with fresh water have become a lethal recipe for disaster. Oily roads. In the driving seat is a sergeant from the nevada highway patrol. He is using a softwa re nevada highway patrol. He is using a software that alerts into an incident as soon as it is reported by someone calling 911 or through driving apps and provide him with details and the best route to get to the scene. The location, what kind of accident, the degree, and if there are any responders that are on their way. It constantly updates in on the situation as it develops. Having a robust system in place doesnt just help having a robust system in place doesntjust help with weather related collisions. Doesntjust help with weatherrelated collisions. With our route 91 shooting that we had, for the portion that we handled, the highway patrol, its getting the public off the highway as quickly as possible, closing of the freeways we could have the critical resources, fire, medical, ambulances, to get people to the hospital quickly. Fire, medical, ambulances, to get people to the hospital quicklym 201715,000 crashes were attended to, with over 300 people dying on average in each year in rosa road accidents in nevada, getting Emergency Services to be seen as quickly as possible is critical. There is an injury. Camera 217. The system has been running through the regional transportation commissions Traffic Centre for the past three months. Now because we are getting information through so many different data streams, notjust dispatches, but social media, things like the apps. Because all of this is happening so quickly we might have already sent out all of that information and had everybody in this room where before the first 911 call comes in. So we are talking about possibly ten to 15 minutes of improvement in Response Time in some of these incidents. Thats major when you are dealing with these kinds of incidents. The app pulls information from various sources, in vehicle sensors, tv cameras, information from driving apps. It factors in what day of the year it is, the time of day and the weather. Responding to incidents rapidly is one thing, but the point is to be able to predict them before they happen so the responders can be better prepared and in the right location. We look at the historical data, running through algorithms to develop patterns that are merging. By develop patterns that are merging. By doing that we can look forward in time to identify where these incidents are likely to occur. U nfortu nately, incidents are likely to occur. Unfortunately, the app wasnt able to predict this one. It looks like it is the real. You can see how she was spinning out. She did a full 180 and struck right here. Being able to foresee accidents here could really save lives. The hope is that as the data gets more sophisticated the predictions will become more accurate. Everyday we get more and more evidence about what causes, what triggers, incident and the artificial learning get smarter and smarter and more capable. For nevada 110w smarter and more capable. For nevada now the initial results are promising. They get there faster, we clear it faster and that means less secondary accidents and if you think about it secondary accidents have basically 18 of secondary accidents are fatalities. So we are reducing the fatalities on the road. And of course the goal is to prevent accidents altogether and Richard Taylor and Lara Lewington have been looking at some in car technologies that may help make that a reality. At ces as you might expect theres a lot of interest in self driving cars and its pretty clear that we are on and its pretty clear that we are on a 1 way street towards full autonomy. But that does still seem to bea autonomy. But that does still seem to be a way off, although we dont know exactly how far. In the meantime there is plenty of innovation to be seen before we reach ourfinal innovation to be seen before we reach our final destination. Unsurprisingly, the move towards autonomy to driving is focused largely on safety, with healing day creating a system to intervene when we needed the most. With hyundai. With accommodation of biometric sensors in the seat, they are tracking heart rate and a low resolution camera which is tracking your facial resolution camera which is tracking yourfacial movements. The reason it is low resolution is so that the refresh rate is quicker. So if theres a problem, if youve lost concentration or you are drifting off to sleep, then the car can quickly react. So autonomously be moved off the road to a safe spot. And the basic tremors of this technology could be available in just a year. A sick premise. Meanwhile, nissan has a more futuristic twist on biometrics. The idea of this system is really to provide an interaction between man and machine, between my brain and the ai. And machine, between my brain and the al. The concept here with nissan is even in a world of Autonomous Vehicles, there will be roles for humans to play. After all, a lot of people find driving a positive experience. It can interpret signals coming from the human and actually in enhance the ride. This sort of brain the vehicle text currently involves wearing this bizarre helmet to capture my brain activity and interpret signals as much as half a second before my muscles do. So, as im about to say change lane or hit the brakes on it will initiate the action for me, giving me a smoother ride, and yet still allowing me a sense of control. They do need to sort out that helmet, though. Oh dear. Im not driving very well here. Yet what we cant hide away from is the fact that when full autonomy does come to pass, it is not simply about cars. This is yamahas concept motorbike. A self driving racing vehicle that should be able to do speeds of over 120 mph, although not on actual roads you would hope. But whatever the form of Autonomous Vehicle it will need to interact safely with pedestrians at and cyclists, a challenge that ford are hoping to ove 1120 m e challenge that ford are hoping to overcome in their vehicles. Initially cyclists will have to be seen by the vehicles and we are building the reception into our Autonomous Vehicle that allows it to detect the cyclists, objects, understand their intent and make sure we can be safely navigating same space. And ford are just one of the big brands that have called on the big brands that have called on the help of a company, whose processes , the help of a company, whose processes, combined with intelligence software, can make the environment around the vehicles safer. For example using light as sensors to alert the driver who is about to open a car door onto a cyclist. Lidar sensors. About to open a car door onto a cyclist. Lidar sensors. And ai is fuelling other experiences. Speech recognition specialists power many of the days in car interactions how they are looking in the future as well. Today we think about interacting with using voice, but there are other modalities. Of course we have a touchscreen, but maybe we can use gestures and in this particular prototype we introduced eye tracking, to help the assistant understand what am i as a driver looking at and then i can ask questions about my environment. If i see a coffeeshop in front of me, i canjust ask see a coffeeshop in front of me, i can just ask a question about it. What is the user rating of this copy shop . Starbucks coffee has a user rating of three stars. So the other pa rt rating of three stars. So the other part of the system is that there are microphones in different parts of the car, which means the aia can respond according to whether different passengers are. So here on the passenger seat i can say, hello, dragon, im cold. 0k, raising the temperature in zone two. Theres definitely a trend towards making our journeys more theres definitely a trend towards making ourjourneys more enjoyable as well as safer. To you to have updated their happiness concept, aiming fora more updated their happiness concept, aiming for a more pleasurable journey and even suggesting where you might want to go toyota. For anyone needs their car to tell them. I will tell you something interesting. There are many options around union square for casual dining the michelin stars. Do you like it . Yes. That was a bit of fun, but i didnt need the ai like it . Yes. That was a bit of fun, but i didnt need the al to tell me that i was ready for dinner. Lets go. Welcome to the week in tech. The week ford announced it would have £8 billion in electric cars in the next five years. A flaw in a vr app left 20,000 users names exposed. And hackers stole 100,000 worth of cryptic currency by hijacking a server. It was a busy week for crypto currency, as big coin encountered its busiest daily crash infour encountered its busiest daily crash in four months. Biggest. It is thought fears over increased regulation, especially in asia, would be an issue. A contraceptive app previously thought as effective as the pill has been criticised by a Swedish Hospital for as the pill has been criticised by a Swedish Hospitalfor a as the pill has been criticised by a Swedish Hospital for a number of unintended pregnancies they say were linked to the app. The Company Behind it have defended the product, saying that as with any form of contraception it isnt100 effective. They are now launching an internal investigation, however. And i bet you didnt expect the latest nintendo offering to include a whole lot of cardboard. The latest add ons for the switch console are cardboard packs, turning the consoles into a fishing rod, motorbike and even a robot suit. Gimmick or brilliant . Finally, the rescue with a difference. A drone was used to save two swimmers off the coast of nsw in australia. Lifeguards were being trained to use the rescue drone when practice became reality and it was launched, robbing a flotation device to the teenagers. The whole rescue took just to the teenagers. The whole rescue tookjust 72nd. To the teenagers. The whole rescue took just 72nd. To the teenagers. The whole rescue tookjust 72nd. 70 seconds. In this trendy part of downtown las vegas, these passengers are waiting to hop on a special kind arrive. For the past two months, this french Autonomous Vehicle company has been offering free bus ride to the public. Admittedly it doesnt travel far, itjust does a loop around the block with one stop at a doughnut shop. At least they are getting a taste of the future down the road i am waiting to catch a more private road which ive built on an app booked. As if by magic the door opened the team was still ironing out a few issues, shall we say. I think this is the first genuinely Autonomous Vehicle ive been in where there really is no driver and their really is no place for a drive. Theres just a safety man here. Thats it. Safety man has an xbox one controller down by his side. Navya is not alone in this space. Other companies have been battling it out to become the first fully autonomous cab sharing service. Self driving cars use a lot of sensors to be able to navigate the road safely. Thats one of the most important is lidar, how the car judges its surroundings. The design of these centres is at the heart of a court case. Navyas car is no different. It also uses lidar to look around. What it is not doing is looking at the traffic lights to judge what colour they are. Theyve fitted special sensors to each traffic light and those sensors talk to the car. That doesnt sound very scalable to me. That sounds like you wouldnt be able to put this sort of technology on the open road without fitting every single traffic light in the us with these centres. It is much morejust for in the us with these centres. It is much more just for predetermined routes for this kind of shuttle vehicles. While ive been riding around in this particular smart vehicle, dave lee has been up in reno, not that far away, looking at a system that is making use of Data Collected by vehicles like this to help an entire city to move more smoothly. Theres been Great Strides made in Self Driving Technology over the past decade or so, but the thing about autonomy is that it often tested in bright and clear conditions. The real world is much more distracting. In fact, it is not just darkness that is difficult for existing autonomous technologies. Whether it is through rain, snow, or just faarup ahead on the road, there isa just faarup ahead on the road, there is a lot self driving vehicles struggle to see. Important work is taking place at the university of reno, nevada, that is attempting to solve that problem, making autonomy more intelligent. And it all begins here, on the corner of 15th and virginia. So at that corner we have a light sensor. That light sensor used to be on the Autonomous Vehicle. But if we move it from the vehicle. But if we move it from the vehicle to the intersection, so it can track each pedestrian here, each vehicle here. What kind of things is that picking up . Is it recognising who people are . No, it only recognises this as a pedestrian or this is a vehicle. It does not recognise who the person is. Think of this intersection as providing more of this intersection as providing m ore eyes of this intersection as providing more eyes to an Autonomous Vehicle. It could detect the threat and communicate that to a car heading in its direction, telling it to slow down, beware. So what these centres are doing in essence is giving Autonomous Car is more are doing in essence is giving Autonomous Car is more eyes on the road. Yes. Theyjust know more about what is coming up ahead. Exactly, so no black spots. Part of the same programme is this connected car. A modified lincoln that can not only drive itself around, but also communicate with other vehicles and components in the city, signalling its intention is to others. The hardware that you see is pretty similarto hardware that you see is pretty similar to what you are going to see in most Autonomous Vehicles, if not all of them. Where we really dissing wish ourselves as in the software. So our research focuses on what i call social intelligence. We are trying to build machines that understand people, and understand human social behaviour, and can predict what other people are going to do, and then act appropriately. It isa to do, and then act appropriately. It is a skill that humans have. We navigate driving effortlessly, even though we cant read other peoples mines, and it is a skill that computers are going to have to have if they are ever going to drive cars in the world with the rest of us. And then there is the challenge of making the Technology Work in difficult conditions. Inspired by an earlier project to help drone see in the dark, the team at the universitys Autonomous Robots Lab has confined lidar, radar and cameras, to dramatically improve what car can copperhead. It is also cheap. Once that technology is safe and ready, the plan is to deploy it on electric losses like this one. Until then, the team plans to use the autonomous tech together large amounts of data in preparation for a self driving future. This bus made bya self driving future. This bus made by a California Based Company is already out on renos roads, but right now with a more traditional type of driver. It is not autonomous yet. The idea is to at some point focus on that project. However, right now we are focusing on Data Collection for what we call the living lab, and Data Collection is going to be used for the mobility programme. For the foreseeable future, these buses will gather data for the Living Lab Programme in reno, a city that perhaps knows more about what is going on on its streets than almost any other city in the world. That was dave, and now the something we have been hearing a lot about recently. Augmented reality. Now, it works by overlaying graphics on top of the real world, and while ar games like pokemon go have enjoyed global success, the most hyped it of ar kit, magic to get leap, is still waiting to be released. Ar remains a technology that promises more than it delivers magic leap. But by combining ar with al, researchers in florida are hoping to create new ways to train people to perform complex tasks. We took them ar kit for a test drive, or should that be a test flight . The university of Central Florida has a long established relationship with the simulation industry. Helping create simulated experiences for everything from driving to supermarket shopping. The Simulation Lab heres latest project is a bit more highflying than high street, though. As long as we have had pcs, we have had flight simulators. But if you are really serious about learning how to fly, then you need an aircraft and a human pilot to teach you what to do. But this lab is about to be transformed into an aircraft cop that, with the help of this augmented reality headset. And when i put it on, it will also provide me with my very own virtual captain. Called project cap, it is a collaboration with Aerospace Giants boeing. Necessary information. Sure, i have doubled my flow. Give it your best try. The aerial cockpit is designed as a Training Simulator for pilots. They can brush up on skills or practice in almost any environment. It does feel as if i can reach out and touch the controls, and i am very much tempted to. And i do that, and of course there is nothing there. The net. Ok, cap, you seem to have a good idea of what to do in this aircraft. So taxi. Roger, you are clear to start number two. Ready. At the moment, cap response to a very small number of voice commands or questions. Beacon. On. Might check. My cheque, one, two on three. But this can still be useful for training pilots. Augmented reality gives us a chance to bridge the thing strapped on the Digital World and the things around us. How can we start to merge those things together in effective ways . How can we create holograms right before you for things that would be less safe if you were to do them in the real world, or that you might need Additional Information besides what you can build around you in the real world . What you can build around you in the realworld . Closed what you can build around you in the real world . Closed and locked. What you can build around you in the realworld . Closed and locked. Looks behind him to check that. Vr140. It behind him to check that. Vr 140. It isa behind him to check that. Vr140. It is a very convincing illusion that there is a pilot in here with me. Any questions . Do we have a specific altitude restriction . Per year in development, cap is actually modelled on a real pilot. We have an opportunity to take some of our friends who are pilots, in this case one in particular, and see if he would actually subject himself to a full body scan, the then be able to use him as our avatar. So that is who we have, and actual pilots, who knows the mannerisms and gestures, that we can put into that virtual pilots seat. But is this another insta nce pilots seat. But is this another instance of technology putting people out of theirjobs . No, not at all. It is to provide student pilots with the opportunity to practise interpersonal skills before they actually get to a Flight Training centre, with real pilots. And we can provide them with a greater breadth of experiences, through introducing different variables, such as different variables, such as different cultural types of personality styles that they can practice with. I do wonder about other applications for this sort of kit. Somebody that might be able to teach you how to drive a car, for instance, will teach you how to operate various bits of equipment and machinery. Some of the work that we had done before doing the work with boeing was in things like medical simulation, with boeing was in things like medicalsimulation, being with boeing was in things like medical simulation, being able to have a holographic overlays that you could see the x rays laid on top, exactly placed, or the ct scans or mri is. Those are things that we think hold great promise, not only just because they will help with visualisation, but they might also lead to better quality of care, or lifesaving, because you have better access to data right when you need it. So one day, beyond the cockpit, caps digital descendants might help teachers teach us how to do all kinds of things. Might help teach arts. And from boeing to boosting. I am on my way to the tipsy robots, where mythology has been given a hi tech makeover boozing. Here, the drinks are shaken and served by these two chaps. I can even invent my own cocktail by choosing from some of the 120 odd spirits hanging from the ceiling, or i assume all of the 120 odd spirits, in one. Can i do that . No, i cant do that, apparently. These droids can mix 100 cocktails are now between the two of them. That sounded impressive until i discovered some human bartenders can do ten times that. And that is it for click in the us for this week. Dont forget, you can follow us on twitter, where you can see loads of extra backstage videos and photos, although trust me, you dont wa nt to photos, although trust me, you dont want to see what happens after i have one or two of these. Cheers, see you soon. Hi there. Snow again caused problems on friday in scotland. Scenes like this were fairly commonplace. The snowiest place at the moment, in the highlands, where weve nearly got 110 centimetres of snow on the ground. The forecast this week ensures a couple of areas of low pressure, one today and another bringing heavy rain and a change to mild conditions on the way for the second half of the weekend. This is how we start off your saturday, then. A band of rain will work into southern and western parts of the country. A cold and frosty start to the north east, with snow showers again affecting parts of scotland, with an ongoing threat of ice, as well. The main uncertainty through the weekend is how far north this pulse of rain will get on saturday morning. It could go right the way across northern ireland. If that happens, there is quite a risk that it turns to snow. Three orfour centimetres is possible. Similar totals possible across the high ground of north wales and the north west midland for a time. Whereas further south of the most part cold rain will fall although there will be some flakes of sleet mixed in, particularly over the high ground, for example the chilterns, and maybe some other areas. Rest of the day, bright skies in scotland filter southwards into far north england northern ireland. A slow change to the rest, a dull, dank day with rain easing off slowly and chilly conditions. Temperatures for most in a range of 3 5 degrees. Milder, though, in the south west. On saturday night, the second of those areas of low pressure that we see on the satellite picture starts to swing in. That will be bringing a band of rain across northern ireland. Ahead of that, it is cold, one of the colder nights of this year so far in scotland. Temperatures could well be dipping down well below freezing, perhaps 8 or 10 degrees. Then on sunday that band of rain will work into colder air, and for a time, it could turn to snow. And that snow could be heavy across the high ground of scotland and the peaks and the pennines, as well, perhaps as much as ten or 15 centimetres of snow. Whereas if the snow comes at lower levels, it will not last long because it will transition back to rain as mild air works in from the west. There will be quite a range in temperatures, then, for the second half of the weekend. Chilly underneath the rain and still some snow mixed in across the north east. Mild air pushing in across parts of england, wales and northern ireland. Boosting, for some, the temperatures to double figures. And that is the story of the weather next week. Mild air across the country, so the weather will feel much different early next week. That is your latest weather. Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. My name is duncan golestani. Our top stories down to the wire time is running out for talks to avoid a shutdown of the us federal government. The white house calls in senior democrats and says progress is being made, but warns theres still disagreement. A new front in the conflict in syria, but this time its turkey opening fire on kurdish forces. Facing up to his crimes we hearfrom more gymnasts who survived sexual abuse by the former team usa doctor larry nassar. Also in the programme, hold on tight we take a look at 1000km h tube ride