We agree with Google its (self-driving car) will not have a ‘driver’ in the traditional sense that vehicles have had drivers during the last more than one hundred years.
Étiquette : self driving car (Page 6 of 7)
Les musiques de démo sur l’avenir technologique viennent du même disque ou c’est une impression ?
Mark Rosekind, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, told reporters that Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will be in Detroit to talk about administration efforts to speed the introduction of self-driving vehicles. There is not yet a clear legal framework governing the presence of driverless cars on U.S. roads.
Source : Obama administration to announce efforts to boost self-driving cars
Working with the Michigan Department of Transportation, U-M researchers have designed Mcity, a unique test facility for evaluating the capabilities of connected and automated vehicles and systems.
Pas nouveau, mais pas une ville non plus…
Source : Mcity Test Facility | University of Michigan Mobility Transformation Center
Audi, Mercedes, Tesla, General Motors, and others are developing cars that cruise along autonomously on the highway and during the stop-and-go grind, but require human control the rest of the time.This contrasts sharply with Google’s strip-out-the-steering-wheel moonshot to eliminate human drivers by 2020. Automakers are moving more slowly, adding limited autonomy that Delphi says could prevent 80 percent of crashes. There are a few reasons for this, not the least of which is full autonomy is exceedingly difficult (engineers must plan for almost every possible contingency) and exceedingly expensive (LIDAR, essential to fully autonomous driving, costs more than the average car).This means a new paradigm is coming: Instead of driving or being driven, you’ll move between the two as conditions warrant. That requires trust and communication—consumers will have to believe the car knows what it’s doing, and that looking away from the road won’t mean looking up from a hospital bed. But it also means remaining vigilant, and ready to take the wheel when necessary. This new relationship with the car requires a new kind of human machine interface.
Source : Delphi’s New Self-Driving Car Teaches Us to Give Up the Wheel | WIRED
George Hotz is taking on Google and Tesla by himself.
The light-up signs, which appear on the front bumper or the side of the car, would say things like “safe to cross,” or “coming through.” A speaker on the outside of the car could also vocalize the text that appear on the signs, or make other audible alerts.
Source : Google has patented how its driverless cars will talk to you – Quartz
Volvo wants us to embrace the commute. The company announced Nov. 18 that it’s planning to have an autonomous vehicle on the streets of Sweden by 2017.
Source : Volvo wants to put self-driving cars on the roads in two years, ahead of Google and Ford – Quartz
It’s hardly fair for a company to tout its record as a job creator while planning to eliminate as many of those jobs as it can.
Source : Uber’s credibility as a jobs creator is going to be tested—mainly by Uber – Quartz
CEO Elon Musk, who considers safety a big selling point of Tesla cars, is not too pleased about that.