Some day in the near future, cars will drive themselves.
A study by the ENO center for transportation has been done to see what needs to be done to prepare for a nation where cars will be driving themselves sometime in the near future. (Videos)
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How a self-driving car sees the world.
At about 8am every morning, Anthony Levandowski gets into the driver’s seat of his white Lexus for his daily commute to work. Most of us perform this routine five times a week, 50 weeks out of the year. But, Levandowski’s commute is different. He has a chauffeur and it’s a robot.
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Mobileye is competing with Google in the space of driverless technology.
Mobileye, a self-driving car startup, announced the closing of a $400M financing round by firms BlackRock, Fidelity Management, Wellington Management, Sailing Capital and Enterprise Rent-A-Car. The round makes Mobileye the highest valued, privately held tech company in Israel with a total market value estimated at $1.5B.
Self-driving cars aren’t that far off in the future.
The explosion of innovation is expected to get even more profound in the the years to come as the technology inside cars accelerates. Check out the infographic after the break that shows the near-future of car tech, revealing what might happen in the next five years.
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America’s Independent Electric Light and Power Companies magazine ad from 1957.
A 1957 ad shows a family playing a game in their car as it cruises down a highway, its steering wheel unattended. “One day your car may speed along an electric super- highway, its speed and steering automatically controlled by electronic devices embedded in the road,” reads the copy. “Highways will be made safe — by electricity! No traffic jams … no collisions … no driver fatigue.”
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Audi has became the second company (Google was first) to be licensed to run autonomous vehicles in Nevada. As seen at an exhibition of the tech from its Electronic Research Laboratory, its cars are already well on their way to ditching the driver.
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Google’s driverless car
California, Florida, and Nevada have made Google’s driverless cars street-legal and some day similar devices may not just be possible but mandatory. Some day automated vehicles will be able to drive better, and more safely than you can; no drinking, no distraction, better reflexes, and better awareness (via networking) of other vehicles. Within twenty to thirty years the difference between automated driving and human driving will be so great you may not be legally allowed to drive your own car, and even if you are allowed, it would be immoral of you to drive, because the risk of you hurting yourself or another person will be far greater than if you allowed a machine to do the work.
BYD remote controlled car
All eyes have been on Google and it’s self-driving car prototype. But while that has been happening, a Chinese electric car maker BYD has released a vehicle that already drives itself, sometimes.
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Self-driving cars have been a vision of the future for decades. However, they may finally be getting closer.
Google’s self-driving cars have now clocked up 300,000 miles without a single accident.
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You might already be familiar with Google’s self-driving car project. They have spent years working on a tough engineering problem—how to create a hardware and software system capable of gathering and interpreting massive amounts of real-time data and acting on that knowledge swiftly and surely enough to navigate innumerable varieties of crowded thoroughfares without ever once (among other human frailties) exploding in a fit of road rage at the guy who just cut hard left across your lane without even bothering to flash his blinker.
Google’s self-driving car
Google wants to hire engineers to design and test the self-driving cars it’s been working on. Check out some of the new job listings Google has posted in the last couple weeks:
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Self-driving Toyota Prius, modified by Google.
Google is quietly lobbying legislators to make Nevada the first state to allow autonomous vehicles on public roads. The company’s self-driving cars might soon become more than a pet project. (Video)
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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