Self Driving Automobiles. Is it reality?

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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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http://www.kpmg.com/US/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Documents/self-driving-cars-are-we-ready.pdf

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