Wednesday 29 August 2012

CAR DRIVE THEMSELVES -FUTURE CARS

   
This page features recent inventions about future cars, electric cars, air car, skycar and flying cars.
Sebastian Thrun, the director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford University, is passionate about his desire to develop a self driving car.

In 2004, Thrun heard about the Darpa Challenge by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

DARPA invited participants to create a self driving vehicle that could navigate a 132 mile course through the harsh Nevada desert.

Although there were numerous participants = there wasn't a winner. None of the entries successfully completed the course.

In 2007, Thrun togther with a team of engineers, programmers and designers from Stanford University entered their driverless vehicle in the Challenge. Their vehicle not only finished the course but came in first and won $2 million in prize money for doing so.

Today, with the sponsorship of Google, Thrun is closer to his goal of developing an intelligent car that could significantly reduce accidents. 




A fleet of modified Toyota Priuses have been driving themselves around California for the past couple of years. A noticeable feature on these vehicles is a 64-beam laser mounted on the roof. It generates measurements and detailed three-dimensional maps of the surroundings.
Other sophisticated sensors include an array of radars and cameras for vision; gps, inertia detectors, and wheel encoders for orientation and motion. Software programs with high-resolution maps, utilize a robot hierarchy where data is collected and utilized in a decision making process to control the vehicle.

These future cars can recognize and react to obstacles and traffic signs. They understand traffic laws and can evaluate and recognize traffic flow and driving conditions. An artificial intelligence learning algorithm also allows the vehicle to improve itself - to be more efficient, more accurate, quicker and so forth.

It's a given that one cannot rule out drivers from being distracted, attention deficient, perceptively challenged or lacking in judgement when controlling their vehicles.

Perhaps a perceptive, intelligent car focused on driving itself may be a plausible alternative to achieving efficiency and safety on our roadways.

As Thrun says, "Most automotive deaths are due to human error, not machine error."

See futuristic technology - Google Car.

Sources: http://www.inventor-strategies.com/recent-inventions.html

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