AUTO21. Ford boss: autopilot cars could be on the road in a decade. Robocars will take us out of driver’s seat. Self-driving cars 'not far off' Can You Trust Your Autonomous Vehicle? Fully automated terrestrial driving may eventually become a reality. A mandatory prerequisite is the demonstration that safety (of passengers and their vehicles) can be guaranteed in all possible circumstances thanks to embedded systems and infrastructures. A number of technological solutions, notably those installed in autonomous cars (Google Car, Audi), have proven that certain crucial functions (such as trajectory control on highways, geolocation, and safe spacing) are attainable by relying on perception-based technology (like cameras, radars, and e-maps). Also essential to safety will be radio communications technologies, to be replaced by cognitive technologies further down the line. The goal of this session is to show the limitations of solutions currently being deployed, standardized, or undergoing testing in the US, Asia, and in Europe.
Particular focus will be put on hazards caused by transitory or permanent failures of on-board equipment or infrastructure nodes. What driverless car entrepreneurs can learn from the aviation industry - Future Tense. The former vice-president of research and development for General Motors is a champion of the ‘driverless car’. He sees a time when traffic in our cities will swarm like insects, with cars communicating with each other to eliminate human error. But others point to the experience of automation in the aviation sector, which has caused pilots to forget basic flight skills, increasing accidents when systems crash.
Antony Funnell investigates. Harry McCracken has seen quite a few of them cruising around his neighbourhood in southern California—cars that drive themselves. Not empty cars—these cars have passengers in them, including someone positioned where the driver normally sits. But they’re fully-automated nevertheless. No-one is steering, working the accelerator or touching the brake. Google claims its driverless test vehicles have clocked-up more than 500,000 accident-free kilometres, self-navigating the highways and major roads of America’s most populous state. Google declines to back NHTSA guidelines on self-driving cars. Washington Search engine giant Google Inc. on Friday declined to endorse the Obama administration’s guidelines on self-driving cars, including the government’s recommendations that states shouldn’t allow general use of self-driving cars. “We are introducing autonomous vehicle technology to improve people’s lives by making driving safer, more enjoyable, and more efficient.
We have already driven over a half million miles and expect the technology to continue to progress rapidly,” Google said in a statement. The new guidelines from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say states — if they eventually allow the sale of self-driving cars — should require special licenses for drivers of autonomous vehicles and require that they sit in the driver seat ready to take over if the vehicle fails. A company spokesman, Jay Nancarrow, declined to say if Google supports the recommendations. Google has said it thinks the technology could be commercially available within five years. Publication:- Global Land Transport Infrastructure Requirements. Over the next four decades, global passenger and freight travel is expected to double over 2010 levels. In order to accommodate this growth, it is expected that the world will need to add nearly 25 million paved road lane-kilometres and 335 000 rail track kilometres.
In addition, it is expected that between 45 000 square kilometres and 77 000 square kilometres of new parking spaces will be added to accommodate vehicle stock growth. These land transport infrastructure additions, when combined with operations, maintenance and repairs, are expected to cost as much as USD 45 trillion by 2050. This publication reports on the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) analysis of infrastructure requirements to support projected road and rail travel through 2050, using the IEA Mobility Model. It considers land transport infrastructure additions to support travel growth to 2050. Michigan governor urges 'automotive capital of the world' to welcome self-driving cars.
Self-driving cars may soon hit the roads of Michigan — home of US automakers Chrysler, Ford, and GM — as Governor Rick Snyder continues a push for his state to join California, Florida, and Nevada in allowing driverless vehicle testing. Snyder said yesterday that autonomous vehicles will eventually increase road capacity and improve driver safety throughout the state — but the governor is also looking to pit Detroit against Silicon Valley. Industry around autonomous driving technology has continued to grow in the California tech hub, where Google, Nissan, Toyota, and Volkswagen have all located nearby research facilities, and Snyder has previously called out Michigan's need to act as the industry develops elsewhere. "They’re ahead of us and aren’t we the automotive capital of the world?
" To pass legislation that's been introduced to Michigan's Senate, Snyder has been working to quell safety concerns around allowing self-driving vehicles onto the road. Bertrand (1494) On the Road in Mobileye’s Self-Driving Car. Photo JERUSALEM — Last month, on a freeway from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea, I sat in the driver’s seat of an Audi A7 while software connected to a video camera on the windshield drove the car at speeds up to 65 miles an hour — making a singular statement about the rapid progress in the development of self-driving cars. While the widely publicized Google car and other autonomous vehicles are festooned with cameras, radar and the laser range finders called lidars, this one is distinctive because of the simplicity and the relatively low cost of its system — just a few hundred dollars’ worth of materials.
“The idea is to get the best out of camera-only autonomous driving,” said Gaby Hayon, senior vice president for research and development at Mobileye Vision Technologies, the Israeli company that created the system in the Audi. The Mobileye car does not offer the autonomy achieved by Google’s engineers. Continue reading the main story Video With two Mobileye engineers, Dr. Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being? | Technology. Suddenly a robotised, automated economic reality is moving off the science fiction pages and into daily life.
The growing use of unmanned battlefield drones is encouraging the growth of pilotless commercial aircraft – the first ever flew in British airspace last month. Google's driverless car is completing ever more trials ever more successfully: the world's major car companies are all hot in pursuit, working on their own prototypes of their own versions. The automated checkouts at supermarkets are becoming as familiar as bank cash machines. From staff-free ticket offices to students who can learn online, it seems there is no corner of economic life in which people are not being replaced by machines.
This is the "Great Reset" – a cull of broadly middle-class jobs with middle-class incomes that is apparent across the west, but with little current sign of what industries and activities will replace them. The omens are all around. Think through the implications of the driverless car. Experts agree: Your next car will be smarter than you. It's all about speed – processing speed, that is One requirement for keeping Ng-Thow-Hing alive, of course, is making sure that an augmented-reality interface operates in real time. "If you think about something that differentiates computer vision for ADAS and computer vision for other areas, you can think of stability and robustness and functionality," said Victor Eruhimov, CTO of the Nizhny Novgorod, Russia–based computer-vision company Itseez .
"But another key factor is the speed. " ADAS tasks, Eruhimov emphasized, must run in real time, and they must run on embedded systems. Other embedded tasks such as robotics – another area in which Itseez has been active – aren't as dependent on real-time activity. "And it's challenging to be real-time in the embedded environment," he said. "Their resources are really limited compared to desktop and server environments. " OpenVX will speed software for CPUs, GPU-enabled parallelism, and dedicated hardware (source: Khronos Group) So do we, Mr. Why? Nissan Opens Silicon Valley Center for Self-Driving Car Research. Nissan Motor Co. opened a research center in California’s Silicon Valley that the Japanese carmaker plans to make its hub for research on self-driving vehicles and Internet-connected auto technology.
The facility will be staffed by more than 60 engineers and technicians within three years, Carla Bailo , Nissan’s senior vice president for North American research and development, said in a phone interview. Work on so-called autonomous vehicle systems will move from an R&D center in Japan to Sunnyvale, she said, declining to provide investment details for the project. “We’re going to focus on this technology really in the heart of where it lies today,” Bailo said in the Feb. 15 interview. “We are going to be shifting work that’s being done in our Nissan Advanced Technical Center in Atsugi, and moving that work over to the heart of the industry.”
Google has tested a self-driving Prius in California for years, and the U.S. Nissan Opens Silicon Valley Center for Self-Driving Car Research. Silicon Valley refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States . The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations. [ 1 ] The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the American high-tech sector. Despite the development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United States and the world , Silicon Valley continues to be the leading hub for high-tech innovation and development, accounting for one-third (1/3) of all of the venture capital investment in the United States. [ 2 ] Geographically, the Silicon Valley encompasses all of the Santa Clara Valley including the city of San Jose (and adjacent communities), the southern Peninsula Valley , and the southern East Bay .
Origin of the term [link] History [link] Law firms [link] Automated Vehicles are Probably Legal in the United States. Cross posted from the Robotics and the Law blog . “One of the most significant obstacles to the proliferation of autonomous cars is the fact that they are illegal on most public roads.” That’s what Wikipedia tells us—at least until I change it. I can’t change a New York Times op-ed that declared “driverless cars” to be “illegal in all 50 states” or the many articles that have repeated this claim. To the extent that such pronouncements of illegality reflect assumption rather than analysis, they are inconsistent with our nation’s entrepreneurial narrative: An invention is not illegal simply because it is new, and a novel activity is not prohibited just because it has not been affirmatively permitted. So to determine the actual legal status of the automated vehicles that may someday roam our roads, I reviewed relevant law at the international, national, and state levels.
Nonetheless, significant legal uncertainty does remain, even in Nevada, Florida, and California. Take two examples. Mov'eo : Pôle de compétitivité > Accueil. Laugier_presentation.pdf (application/pdf Object) I-Mobility Network. Schedule | Center for Automotive Research. Governors CD Inspired by vehicle manufacturers and suppliers, Google, and other innovators, the race to develop self-driving, or automated, vehicles is underway.
The automotive industry continues to innovate and deploy more advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that form the basic building blocks of self-driving vehicles. Such systems include lane-keeping, adaptive cruise control, back-up assist, parking assist, traffic-jam assist, and so on. Meanwhile, several states have enacted legislation that addresses the licensing and operation of automated vehicles, at least for testing purposes. At the federal level, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is developing roadmaps for regulation of sensor-based safety systems, and NHTSA and other units of the US Department of Transportation are developing research plans to address these technologies.
Thus, the future automated highway system will be a joint product of industry innovation and regulatory mandates. Co-Chairs: Hitachi Unveils ROPITS, a Tiny Self-Driving 'Car' Pushing the boundaries of what we already know about self-driving vehicles, Hitachi unveils a new kind of robotic vehicle designed for the sidewalk. The self-driving car prototypes from Google and Toyota offer the promise of safer highways, fewer accidents, and possibly even less traffic congestion. But a new vehicle from Japan's Hitachi has radically reduced the form factor, essentially delivering a personal chariot that doesn't require the passenger's direct control or attention. Dubbed the ROPITS (Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System), the vehicle was designed to address the needs of Japan's rapidly increasing population of elderly citizens, and otherwise physically challenged individuals.
What makes the ROPITS particularly unique is that it can be remotely directed to drop off and pick up passengers, all from a tablet computer. Earlier this week, the ROPITS was demonstrated for members of the local media in Tsukuba, Japan. Intel readies for programmable smart cars. Computerworld - BARCELONA -- Intel researchers envision a future of driverless smart cars that can be updated at any time with the latest technology and apps. Intel hopes to play a major role in the new age, creating small, energy-efficient multi-core chips that can make cars more intelligent. "In the next generation, we are talking about quad-core," said Michael Konow, an Intel engineering manager based in Germany. Enno Luebbers, a research scientist at Intel Labs Europe, shows an Intel-based smart car system. Running a low-power processor similar to Intel's Atom chip, the system is running car- and driving-related apps, such as a navigation system, along with an Android-based entertainment system that has games and movies.
(Photo by Sharon Gaudin/Computerworld) "We are looking far ahead to safe driving cars," he said. "A car that drives autonomously and has a 100% guarantee that an accident won't happen would require a lot more compute performance," he said. Multimedia Imaging Portal. Self-driving, laser-equipped Audi A2 drags us, kicking and screaming, into the future. How the 2013 Lincoln MKZ Drives Itself | New Car Pricing Insider | Tips on buying a new car from insiders. January 8th, 2013 by Jesse Sears The 2013 Lincoln MKZ is a sharp new luxury sedan that offers drivers a couple of cutting-edge new active safety systems that, when combined, take us one step closer to a world of fully autonomous cars.
Making use of a forward-facing camera mounted in the rearview mirror, Lincoln’s Lane-Keeping System promises the ability to correct the vehicle’s path within the lanes if the driver falls asleep or otherwise begins to wander. Other automakers offer tech that makes similar claims, but here’s the difference. Instead of simply using the stability control system to brake the inside wheels, Lane-Keeping System actually turns the steering wheel autonomously. The result is much smoother in its operation, especially mid-corner. Add the Lincoln Motor Company’s Adaptive Cruise Control to the mix and we’re one step closer to fully autonomous driving. BMW self driving software: Robo car needs four sense and not a driver to drive down the autobahn (video) Audi Self-Driving Car: Hands-on at CES 2013; Watch It Park By Itself (VIDEO) : Tech.
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