Alex Roy (The/DRIVE, AI, Human Driving Association)
The Smoking Tire30 Mai 2019

Alex Roy (The/DRIVE, AI, Human Driving Association)

Alex Roy is a brilliant, hilarious, exccentric fixture in the automotive world. He is a an expert in autonomous cars, and broke several long-distance driving records including shortest drive time from NY to LA, and shortest drive time from LA to NY in a Tesla Model S. He has been writing almost exclusively about autonomous vehicles for TheDRIVE, and recently took a position at ARGO AI. HOWEVER, despite his current employer he is also the found of The Human Driving Association, which will lobby to defend our right to pilot our cars. Click the links to read more about him.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/25928/why-im-joining-argo-ai
https://www.thedrive.com/opinion/18952/this-is-the-human-driving-manifesto
https://www.amazon.com/Driver-Dangerous-Pursuit-Outlaw-Racing/dp/0061374997

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