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“ If you don ’ t allow people to take risks – and occasionally fail – then you won ’ t encourage people to get out there and try to push those boundaries to create new innovations ”
— Jason Roos , CIO , King Abdullah University of Science and Technology ( KAUST ) of innovation projects including autonomous vehicles , drone delivery , cashless pay and facial recognition . “ Coming back to autonomous vehicles , we are assessing and experimenting with this technology for two different shuttles on a joint agreement that we ’ ve built with multiple companies ,” comments Abdel-Aal who explains the complexity involved when innovating in this area . “ The assessment of autonomous shuttles includes multiple dimensions , one being the operational aspect . Can we run these shuttles ? Can we charge them ? Can we maintain them ? Will
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