AI on Wheels, teaching pedestrians and self-driving cars to talk to each otherAI on Wheels，讓行人和自駕車學會對話
A two-way communication protocol between people and autonomous vehicles, designed and prototyped in 48 hours.一套行人與自駕車的雙向溝通協定，48 小時內設計並做出原型。
01 Challenge挑戰
How do pedestrians walk safely on roads full of autonomous vehicles?行人要怎麼在滿是自駕車的道路上，安全地行走？
When a human driver sees you, you get eye contact, a nod, a wave. A self-driving car gives you nothing. Under the hackathon theme "AI on Wheels", we zoomed in on this missing conversation between people and machines.真人駕駛看到你，會有眼神接觸、點頭、揮手；自駕車卻什麼都不給你。在「AI on Wheels」這個題目下，我們鎖定的就是這段「人與機器之間消失的對話」。
02 Solution解法
1 · The car tells you it sees you1 · 車，告訴你它看見你了
Pedestrians never know whether a self-driving car has actually detected them. So we created a communication protocol: when the car detects a pedestrian, it flashes its lights three times, a clear "I see you."行人永遠不知道自駕車到底有沒有偵測到自己。所以我們設計了一套溝通協定：當車輛偵測到行人，車燈會閃三下，清楚地說「我看到你了」。
2 · You can talk back2 · 你，也能主動開口
But why should people just wait to be detected? We flipped the direction: pedestrians can actively send a signal to the car, covering the cases where radar has blind spots.但人為什麼只能被動等著被偵測？我們把方向反過來：讓行人也能主動對車發出訊號，補上雷達偵測的盲區。
03 Outcome成果
From problem to working prototype in 48 hours, and first place (NT$80,000) at the 2023 Science and AI Hackathon, AI on Wheels, hosted by Foxconn × MIT Media Lab.48 小時內從問題走到可運作的原型，在 Foxconn × MIT Media Lab 主辦的 2023 Science and AI Hackathon「AI on Wheels」拿下首獎（NT$80,000）。
04 Takeaway收穫
Cross-disciplinary collaboration doesn't start with convincing people. It starts with hearing them.跨領域合作的起點，不是說服對方，而是先聽懂對方。
Design and engineering look at the same problem from completely different angles, and the communication gap was frustrating at first. But once I really listened, I found our ideas always overlapped somewhere we could build on. In just two days, the team went from talking past each other to working in sync. I learned not only to understand a problem through another discipline's eyes, but how to communicate and collaborate with people outside my own field.設計、工程、不同專業看同一個問題的角度完全不同，一開始的溝通隔閡讓人挫折。但仔細聆聽後會發現，彼此的想法總有重疊的地方可以切入。短短兩天，團隊從雞同鴨講走到默契十足。我不僅學會了從其他專業的角度理解事情，更學會和不同領域的人溝通協作。