Our next stop on the road to
autonomous cars is a look at the lane departure warning and prevention technology that helps modern drivers stay safely in their lanes.
Not exact matches
Ever since Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that the company
is working on «
autonomous systems» for
cars, details have trickled out as well as a few public sightings of the technology Now, thanks to the co-founder of self - driving
car startup Voyage, we
're getting an up close
look at — and some expert insight on — Apple's Project Titan.
The organizers of the Formula E electric racing series want to launch a driverless support series called Roborace, and these illustrations
are our first
look at the concept for what these
autonomous racing
cars would
look like.
Suppose for a minute that electric drivetrains and
autonomous feature will
be the new «normal» in the next years and
looking at their track record so far, all the usual performance
car suspects will need to comply with the norm to some extent and concentrate on raw numbers insteead.
While everyone else
is busy designing
autonomous cars, Nissan
is taking a closer
look at your chair.
At first glance you will notice that the xChangeE concept
looks like nothing more than a customized Tesla Model
S, but underneath Rinspeed has created its vision of a future electric
autonomous car.
If that isn't a sign of things to come, then maybe the Japanese automaker
's plan to reveal a new concept model
at the Tokyo Motor Show, one that will prominently showcase the company
's goal of marrying «
car intelligence» and «electrification,»
is the kind of validation that Nissan
's looking for to show that it
's serious about becoming a big player in the race to bring
autonomous driving into public roads.
I
was really
looking forward to drive this
car because I
'm keenly interested in
autonomous technology, and Mercedes
is bragging that this
car is at the bleeding edge.
We know every major
car manufacturer
is looking seriously
at autonomous driving technology but they
're being a lot less gung - ho in their claims and ambitions for it than, for example, Google.
You
're looking at Smart's
autonomous, pure - electric concept
car from the Frankfurt Motor Show.
Something unexpectedly entering the vehicle's path
is pretty much the first emergency event that
autonomous car engineers
look at.
If that proves true, it will
be a full year after Faraday Future made big headlines with big promises as about a world - changing (and Tesla - killing)
autonomous electric vehicle, only to
be widely panned for unveiling a futuristic race
car -
looking concept
at CES that they don't plan on making instead of an actual vehicle.
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are looking at their phones while crossing a street.