Autonomous (Self Driving) Cars - Where Will They and Their Drones Go From Here?
From steering wheels that fold into the dashboard when on auto-pilot, to also having all the features of a race car these cars go from basic to very future-forward. The drones can be used for deliveries or documenting travels via video, or for providing up to the minute entertainment, comfort, safety and serve as a personal assistant, syncing with a bunch of applications. With HD cameras on the outside to provide not only mirrors but points of interest info along with a great view of surrounding terrain, etc.
One of the designs is actually called an airbus because it is a plane, train and automobile. Transforms from car, flying car, to train without lifting your backside. The whole system is, theoretically, powered by artificial intelligence, which Airbus says will develop a “seamless travel experience” by dodging congestion. Not surprising then that this neat idea that is more likely to show up in a video game before it ever crosses into a reality, that Airbus hasn’t announced a time frame for the project.
French auto parts maker Valeo plans to draw on drone software and other military technologies from partner Safran to offer self-driving vehicle platforms to carmakers by the end of the decade. Most anticipate the changes will take lots of needed time and adjustments, but be that as it may, all are stretching forward to do what they can to be riding shotgun when it all unveils.
Terrestrial drone is the preferred title used by some to demonstrate its usability. Cars that complete whole journeys without human input are still many years away, but creeping automation is well underway, with models already on sale that can pilot themselves through slow traffic and hit the brakes when a pedestrian steps out. As collaboration often does, the outpouring of ideas and potential for these vehicles is phenomenal. The changes to the transportation industry as well as service industry are unlimited.
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In short, after almost a hundred years in which driving has remained essentially unchanged, it has been completely transformed in just the past decade with ...2008 World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems—the VW Passat went 25 miles per hour down two closed-off blocks. Its signal achievement seemed to be stopping for a stop sign at an otherwise unoccupied intersection. Now, just ten years later, we are driving close to 70 mph with no human involvement on a busy public highway—a stunning demonstration of just how quickly, and dramatically, the horizon of possibility is expanding. “This car can do 75 mph,” “It can track pedestrians and cyclists. It understands traffic lights. It can merge at highway speeds." And just about every traditional automobile maker is developing its own self driving car.
Briefly some were nervous when the first hands were taken off the wheel and a synthy woman’s voice announced coolly, “Autodrive.” But after a short time, the idea of computer-driven cars seemed much less terrifying than the panorama of indecision, cell phone fumbling, rule-flouting, and other vagaries of the humans around us—including the weaving driver who struggles to film us as he passes for a quick video selfie.
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