Picture this, you are sitting around a table in comfortable leather chairs with a few friends drinking cocktails and playing cards. No, you are not at a friends house on a Friday night but you are riding in your driverless car heading to the moutains for a weekend away. This is the future of the automobile in the 21st century and this technology driven by artificial intelleigence is just around the corner.
Don’t freak out if driving in Nevada, and you see a car driving by iteself, the state issued the first licence for a self driven car. The vehicle is identified by a red licence plate along with an infinity symbol. Other states including Florida and California have also passed laws to run the test cars and other states and provinces and countrys will be next in line. citation
While researching the topic, artificial intelligence and the automobile, I was amazed that Google has been conducting this test on roads and highways for the last three years. Although Google is the current leader in developing the automated cars, many other major auto makers are also onboard in this competitive market. Many large name Technology companies are also major players in the future of the automobile industry.
The Wall Street Journal reported that “Apple and Google are forging ties with automakers to develop various vehicle technologies such as infotainment platforms and autonomous driving systems”. Citation
Currently Google has logged in more than 321,869 kilometers of test drives on public highwasy and roads. The advancements in testing self-driving cars will become natioinwide in no time.
The vehicles that are being tested as self driven automobiles equipt with cameras, radar and is checked from the GPS data. One of technoligies being deve...
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Major incumbent companies expect that the autonomous driving systems will be ready for the market in five years. This may be optimistic, but by 2050, cars that drive themselves could well be major production units for companies like General Motors. GM first revealed in 2010 that it had been working on self-driving cars[1]. Last year, GM demonstrated that the prototypes can follow the pace of traffic, while allowing the driver to have his hands off the steering wheel.
The idea of a self-driving vehicle became widespread to the public after GM’s Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair according to Wired.com (2012), the exhibit GM NavLab 5 was equipped with a portable computer, a windshield-mounted camera, a GPS receiver, and other supplementary equipment. The longest drive without human intervention was almost 70 miles. This was a great accomplishment, and showed that sometime soon these cars could be fit for the roadways across America. A similar trip was done by the University Of Parma’s VISLAB in 2010 drove 16,000 kilometers through nine countries in 100 days. They hit a bit of a roadblock in Russia where the car was involved in an accident, but it was caused by human error.
While many people are all about autonomous cars and the benefits that they will bring to society, there are people who oppose driver less cars. Google has faced major censure from critics that are uneasy with the method that the automobile will u...
The Google car: to some skeptics, this may sound like a cash grab for the multi-billion company, known for its fast information gathering search engine software and cloud computing. But to others who believe technology is the future, this may revolutionize the driving industry as we know it, forever changing the way we get from point A to point B.
2a. [1] The Tesla self-driving car is the future of the automobile industry. The car has the ability to drive itself and perform like a normal driver would but a lot safer. Its intention is to change the way we use cars and help prevent less automotive related accidents. The computational artifact illustrates how the car sees the world. It downloads a GPS in order to have assess the roads and ultrasonic sensors to sense what’s around it. Both of these combined create a car that can see what’s going on around it and react to changes on the road. [1]
Driverless cars are beginning to look less like science fiction and more like reality. Google, Mercedes, Tesla, Uber, Volkswagen, Volvo and other brands are all working on their own versions of driverless cars. They believe that they will be able to release fully autonomous cars to the market between 2019 and 2024. The idea of driverless cars started much earlier than most people would believe, with plans dating back to the 1920’s.
(RESOURCE). On the other hand, the typical car is allowed in every state. Surprisingly, the labor market plays as another component in the new driverless and typical motor vehicle. If the independent vehicle started to be widespread, one fundamental ramification is that numerous people will lose their jobs as drivers.
In July 12, The New York Times reported a news: “Inside the self-driving Tesla fatal accident”, which again caused enormous debates on whether self-driving cars should be legal or not.
The fantasy of cars driving themselves has been dreamed about for a long time. One such instance is an illustration in the 1950’s in a magazine called the Saturday Evening Post showing a family of four playing the board game Scrabble in their car while it drives on its own on the freeway. In 1977, a Japanese company called Tsukuba Mechanical designed the first self-driving car. With a top speed of about 20 miles per hour, this car used a camera on each side of the car that identified the white markers on the road that helped guide the car within the lane.
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