Assistance
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In that war, that nobody seriously wanted to stop, and we have many of these today, bringing some
assistance
to people in need and a bit of protection was not just an act of humanity, it was making a real difference for the people.
Auditors of international
assistance
recently couldn't find even one percent of aid going to protect the poor from the lawless chaos of everyday violence.
Now, today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the difference between patching around the problem with driver
assistance
systems and actually having fully self-driving cars and what they can do for the world.
Now, conventional wisdom would say that we'll just take these driver
assistance
systems and we'll kind of push them and incrementally improve them, and over time, they'll turn into self-driving cars.
And so I'm going to talk to you about three different ways that self-driving systems are different than driver
assistance
systems.
Now, if we want to bring a driver
assistance
system into a car, say with collision mitigation braking, we're going to put some package of technology on there, and that's this curve, and it's going to have some operating properties, but it's never going to avoid all of the accidents, because it doesn't have that capability.
And so this green dot up here is a driver
assistance
system.
I can't tell, nor can any of our algorithms, but in the case of a driver
assistance
system, that means it can't take action, because again, if it presses the brakes unexpectedly, that's completely unacceptable.
So it can be much safer than a driver
assistance
system can ever be.
We are looking forward to having this technology on the road, and we think the right path is to go through the self-driving rather than driver
assistance
approach because the urgency is so large.
No, that's exactly right, and it's not to say that the driver
assistance
systems aren't going to be incredibly valuable.
Now, the US spends over three billion a year on energy bill payment
assistance.
In fact, there is a 47-billion-dollar home-energy affordability gap, so
assistance
alone is not sustainable.
For more than 100 years, the telephone companies have provided wiretapping
assistance
to governments.
For much of this time, this
assistance
was manual.
And we do that by providing peer support, employee assistance, mental health services.
They have had to move, and every parliament session, I'm getting complaints from different communities asking for
assistance
to build seawalls, to see what we can do about the freshwater lens because it's being destroyed, and so in my trips to the different islands, I'm seeing evidence of communities which are now having to cope with the loss of food crops, the contamination of the water lenses, and I see these communities perhaps leaving, having to relocate, within five to 10 years.
For example, when I approached the stage just now, I needed
assistance.
We call this cognitive
assistance.
What about people with disabilities or who need
assistance
in there?
In the camp, she might get assistance, but there are very few prospects for Amira and her family.
They don't usually get significant access to
assistance.
Rather than seeing refugees as inevitably dependent upon humanitarian assistance, we need to provide them with opportunities for human flourishing.
They were in need of our
assistance.
I work in the field of electoral assistance, so that's to say we assist emerging democracies to organize what is often their first elections.
There was a lot of reporting about this group, Doctors Without Borders, sounding the alarm and calling for aid and
assistance.
Some got killed, and some did it without drug
assistance.
How about
assistance?
I don't think they'd ever really seen anything quite like it before, and from that point forward, they gave me open access to their entire collection and the
assistance
of Dr. James Hogan, their entomologist.
Second is technical
assistance.
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