Self-driving vehicles will be a real possibility by 2020, according to previous General Motors research and development chief Larry Burns. Before a crowd at the University of Michigan's Robotics Day, Burns imagined the not-too-distant time when fleets of self-driving cars will transport people wherever they need to go, then instantly travel to the next destination to serve another person.
No issue with distractions in the car anymore
The emissions in urban cities will decrease quite a bit with driverless vehicles because there will be fewer automobiles on the road. People will not get distracted, which will mean fewer accidents on the road. Distracted driving will become obsolete; people will be able to do whatever they want in the car, including taking care of business and phone calls.
Top of the game is Google
Google's experiments with driverless vehicles have attracted no little amount of attention. Thousands of test miles on public roads have already been logged over the past few years in California with Toyota Prius and Audi TT models, and the work continues. Radar and video cameras have been largely effective at both positioning driverless automobiles on a map and detecting road dangers and stop lights.
At any point during the driving, control could be taken back by the human. There has only been one accident reported by the self-driving system, and it was due to a human driver, not the model.
GM attempted driverless cars in 2007
In 2007, General Motors entered a driverless Chevrolet Tahoe in a 55-mile race sponsored by the U.S. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). The race occurred in Victorville, Calif., and the driverless system in the Tahoe (nicknamed "Boss") used familiar systems, from cameras and radar to global positioning satellites. Boss won the race, reports Automotive News.
'Cruise control on steroids'
On the driverless automobiles, there will be adaptive cruise control, collision avoidance and lane-keeping technology. Although Burns thinks the driverless car will not come out until 2020, he does believe that these features will be seen on most customer cars by 2015.
Determining liability
It will be harder to determine who is at fault in crashes with the new technology. That means a massive stumbling block for the driverless cars will be insurance companies.
Google's driverless car information
No issue with distractions in the car anymore
The emissions in urban cities will decrease quite a bit with driverless vehicles because there will be fewer automobiles on the road. People will not get distracted, which will mean fewer accidents on the road. Distracted driving will become obsolete; people will be able to do whatever they want in the car, including taking care of business and phone calls.
Top of the game is Google
Google's experiments with driverless vehicles have attracted no little amount of attention. Thousands of test miles on public roads have already been logged over the past few years in California with Toyota Prius and Audi TT models, and the work continues. Radar and video cameras have been largely effective at both positioning driverless automobiles on a map and detecting road dangers and stop lights.
At any point during the driving, control could be taken back by the human. There has only been one accident reported by the self-driving system, and it was due to a human driver, not the model.
GM attempted driverless cars in 2007
In 2007, General Motors entered a driverless Chevrolet Tahoe in a 55-mile race sponsored by the U.S. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). The race occurred in Victorville, Calif., and the driverless system in the Tahoe (nicknamed "Boss") used familiar systems, from cameras and radar to global positioning satellites. Boss won the race, reports Automotive News.
'Cruise control on steroids'
On the driverless automobiles, there will be adaptive cruise control, collision avoidance and lane-keeping technology. Although Burns thinks the driverless car will not come out until 2020, he does believe that these features will be seen on most customer cars by 2015.
Determining liability
It will be harder to determine who is at fault in crashes with the new technology. That means a massive stumbling block for the driverless cars will be insurance companies.
Google's driverless car information
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