Sentences with phrase «autonomous vehicle movement»

The momentum behind the autonomous vehicle movement has been growing rapidly as the major technology vendors, and new players, seek to define the future of road transport.

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«I think it makes a lot of sense to have a fairly rapid movement towards autonomous vehicles,» says Ken Giles at the University of California, Davis, who is working on a human - controlled helicopter for spraying.

While many are obsessing about new horizontal transportation technology like self - driving cars or autonomous vehicles running on roads, in much of the world the real problems involve mass public transport and vertical movement.

For example, autonomous vehicle sensors will likely include: a wheel encoder sensor for monitoring the movements of the car; GPS for navigation; cameras near the rear - view mirror for colour and other identification; radar on the front and rear bumpers for identifying traffic; lane departure, rear collision and pedestrian alerts; and a spinning light detection and ranging sensor on the roof that will be used for generating a 3D map of the environment.