Driverless Car: The Road Technology of the Future
Posted at 07:28, 2008-Jun-26
Real life is fast catching up with the movies when it comes to automotive technology. A dream of sitting in a middle of road traffic and letting the car itself do the driving is now somehow being realized. Honda as well as the Volkswagen has launched a car model that really can automatically drive!
The said Honda car detects whether you’re gripping the steering wheels and if you let go for a few seconds it kicks in to actually steer for you! Recenlty a Volkswagen Passat drove around in some part of
With the use of Global Positioning System and robotic technology, making future cars contain an Auto Pilot feature had became a reality. The navigation system guides the car to its destination. It has cameras and radars to avoid collisions, and preprogrammed manners to allow other cars on the road to pass through stop signs before proceeding itself.
This new technology can prove to be safer than the conventional automobiles. The computer relies on more than 500,000 lines of code used to create perception, planning and behavioral software to" reason" about traffic and take safe actions while driving to its destination.”
The developers of this modern vehicles aims to save every driver and passenger from accidents due to driver errors. It is perceived that this is going to be the main technological advancement in car technology by 2020.