Sentences with phrase «autonomous vehicles on highways»

Professor Graham Parkhurst of the University added that autonomous vehicles on highways may need to slow to a safe speed — lower than 70 or even 50MPH — before handover is attempted.

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While no one expects a fully robotic car to become commercially available in 2013, it is entirely feasible that a vehicle that is almost entirely autonomous on the highway to start with will indeed be sold this year.

videos online since October, when Tesla updated its software with an «autopilot» feature that steers the vehicle on highways — not fully autonomous, but a strong start.)

That Monday's accident was the first fatal incident involving a fully autonomous vehicle indicates that arguments for their safety have merit, but much of that testing has occurred on highways, which are easier for self - driving cars to navigate than dense, urban environments.

The growing list of companies with state approval to test autonomous vehicles on city streets and highways highlights the race to turn the sci - fi technology into reality.

This budget proposal will empower the state commissioner of the department of motor vehicles (DMV) to «approve demonstrations and tests consisting of the operation of a motor vehicle equipped with autonomous vehicle technology while such motor vehicle is engaged in the use of such technology on public highways within this state.»

He said that by synchronizing autonomous vehicles so that they can communicate and share certain types of information — such as traffic density and flow velocity — with each other, the vehicles could react in a way that alters the flow of traffic on the highway.

Fortunately, while the fully autonomous cars may be another five to ten years away, semi-autonomous vehicles that can take over on the highway or in bumper - to - bumper traffic are just around the corner.

Volvo plans its test of Level 4 autonomy on about 31 miles of highway in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2017 and wants to next test somewhere in the U.S. California's Department of Motor Vehicles put the kibosh on that late last year when it issued operator rules for autonomous vehicles that require human drivers to always be in control.

Volvo remains the only automaker to claim responsibility for any of its vehicles involved in an accident while operated by its autonomous systems, but the Drive Me test program is being conducted with 100 Volvo XC90s on just 50 kilometers (31 miles) of limited - access highway in Gothenburg, Sweden, which, I am told, doesn't get much snow.

Out on the highways, vehicles with varying levels of autonomous capability mix with older, owner - operated cars and trucks, except when lanes dedicated to autonomous - only vehicles open up.

It won't be a fully autonomous vehicle, however, but Audi's system will be a traffic jam pilot and will be able to drive itself temporarily on the highway at speeds up to 37 mph (60 km / h).

INFINITI's autonomous drive technologies will act as a «co-pilot» for the driver, empowering rather than replacing them, and «delegate» more onerous driving tasks to the car — such as navigating stop - start traffic on the highway or keeping track of the positions of surrounding vehicles.

It will also feature Nissan's autonomous control features included in the ProPILOT Assist system, where the vehicle can help the driver on the highway with things like keeping in a lane, and reducing the amount of acceleration, braking and steering.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the United States is working on new guidelines, but currently regulates autonomous vehicles under a slightly different system that was adopted in 2013.

Of course there's a lot of leg work still be to done around other areas of regulation and on testing the tech before we can consider sending even an autonomous mobility scooter out on UK roads, let alone interconnected fleets of AVs vehicles capable of sharing vast amounts of data with each another and with the highway infrastructure.

Use this form to apply test or demonstrate motor vehicles equipped with autonomous vehicle technology on public highways in New York State.

Use this addendum when applying to test or demonstrate a motor vehicle equipped with autonomous vehicle technology on public highways in New York State.

For example, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) could require companies that want to test autonomous vehicles on public roads to submit more detailed data beyond disengagement reports that some states like California currently require.