To help with that, Waymo put together this video showing
how its autonomous cars work.
«However but, if it's an autonomous situation, it's headline news, and the media fails to mention that — actually they shouldn't really be writing the story, they should be writing the story about
how autonomous cars are really safe, but that's not the story that people want to click on,» said Musk.
The news media, he said, «should be writing the story about
how autonomous cars are really safe, but that's not the story that people want to click on.
Not exact matches
The following infographic comes to us from Get Off Road, and it shows the history of
autonomous vehicles,
how they work, the technical challenges overcome so far, and what the near - future of driverless
cars may look like.
CNBC's Phil LeBeau goes behind the wheel of several
autonomous vehicles at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to demonstrate
how Delphi's new V2E (vehicle to everything) technology allows
cars to communicate with each other and avoid accidents, while moving through traffic with greater ease.
The drawing - packed U.S. patent, awarded last week, sheds some much - anticipated light on
how Google's
autonomous car could interact with pedestrians.
Noting that Google's leadership greenlighted the
autonomous idea «before a time when anybody thought this would be thing,» Krafcik — who now looks less like the auto executive he once was and more like the forever cool keyboard player in a 1970s progressive rock band, goateed and with styled gray hair and a trimly fitted blue suit — stressed that Google understood from the beginning the need to partner with
car companies and early on sought to imagine
how that collaboration might work.
The importance of understanding
how drivers interact with
autonomous or semiautonomous vehicles was underscored year ago when a Tesla owner was killed while driving his 2015 Model S in Florida with the
car's Autopilot system engaged.
This «full package» of
autonomous technologies could then be sold to
car makers that want to create and then alter their own offerings, in a manner not unlike
how Google launched its Android efforts with both mobile software and hardware.
Unlike California, where Uber had been testing since spring of 2017, Arizona state officials had taken a hands - off approach to
autonomous vehicles and did not require companies to disclose
how their
cars were performing.
His apparent assumption that the debate is over — «Vehicles that we're producing are capable of full autonomy,» he said — is a little scary, considering
how much still needs to be learned about the functioning of fully
autonomous cars, and about the interaction of
autonomous systems with humans in the cockpit.
Streetsblog: «If Governor Cuomo is going to allow
autonomous car prototypes to operate in real city conditions, he needs to insist on a prototype for
how these vehicles will pay for access to public streets.»
A new report shows
how autonomous and connected
car technologies could begin to reduce the amount of pollution put out by vehicles
As
autonomous cars take to the streets with empty driver's seats, experts are still debating:
How safe is «safe enough» for self - driving vehicles?
Watch
how the Roborace team behind it imagine a new motorsport and
how the Robocar might accelerate the development of the consumer
autonomous car.
Trends such as electromobility,
autonomous driving, and
car sharing are changing
how we drive and opening up new markets for the future.
Herzog shows no interest in social media, instead aiming his curiosities toward more illuminating topics that we likely take for granted:
how a multiplayer game about biomolecules was able to crowdsource scientific discoveries, or
how an
autonomous -
car engineer must deal with the ramifications of a.i. not understanding the values of human society.
He pointed to Ford Go Bikes, its urban bike - sharing program, and plans to field fully
autonomous ride - hail
cars on city streets by 2021 as examples of
how the company is moving past its traditional role as an automaker.
Ford is hard at work testing
autonomous technology in a fleet of self - driving Fusion Hybrid sedan prototypes, and the automaker is pretty proud of just
how well the
car's sensors perform.
Despite headlines and a zeitgeist reinforcing the notion that driverless
cars are inevitable, there is no clear roadmap for
how we're going to get from contemporary automobiles offering
autonomous aids — adaptive cruise control, lane - following systems, and so on — to vehicles that require no human input other than providing a destination.
Musk has now announced details of «master plan, part deux», which shows
how Tesla vehicles will fit into a more renewable and
autonomous future — and one where Tesla doesn't just provide personal transportation in the form of
cars.
The partnership with Ford, in particular, aims to bring self - driving
cars to the mainstream as both companies collaborate to find
how to dispatch
autonomous vehicles as efficiently as possible; however, the Ford and Lyft partnership doesn't intend to put passengers in
autonomous vehicles just yet.
Volvo
Cars recently conducted a «Future of Driving» survey of 10,000 global motorists in order to learn more about what
car buyers want from
autonomous driving technology, and
how they expect to live with it.
ProPILOT Assist is a key component of Nissan Intelligent Mobility, the company's vision for changing
how cars are powered, driven and integrated into society and sets the foundation for the
autonomous vehicles of the future.
The video confirms it will have an
autonomous drive mode, and Renault says the
car «Explores the essence and technologies inspiring upcoming models that embody both a vision of
how mobility might be in the future».
It's part of our vision for
how a luxury
car brand could continue to be desirable, in a more digital and
autonomous age.
This experiment does demonstrate
how far
autonomous technology has advanced, but I doubt we'll be seeing any light-less
cars,
autonomous or not, anytime in the future.
One set of stars refers to the protection provided by the
car in standard form, while the second reflects
how safe the
car is when fitted with an optional safety pack; these tend to bundle together advanced systems like
autonomous emergency braking and a lane - departure warning system, which are two of the features we explain below.
LANE - KEEPING ASSIST SYSTEM This available safety feature proves
how the 2016 Acura RLX is getting closer and closer to being an
autonomous car.
But
how close are we really to fully
autonomous cars?
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autonomous vehicles and new mobility solutions.
We might have to wait many years for a fully
autonomous electric
car from GM to hit the dealerships, in part because the technology still has to mature, but also because legislation isn't ready and it's not quite clear yet
how fast - or slow - regulators will move on this (if it can be convincingly shown that it saves lives and is safer than human drivers, things might go fast).
California requires a number of things from
autonomous car makers, like special vehicle registrations for the
cars and the
car operators, accident report submissions as well as reports pertaining to when and
how often a safety driver needs to take over.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to Google that shows
how Google
autonomous cars would communicate with pedestr...
In 2016, Nvidia's deep learning algorithms, for instance, ran an
autonomous car that had learned
how to drive just by watching a human driver.
Still no word yet on the possible merger with rival T - Mobile... Auto parts maker Delphi is buying
autonomous car startup NuTonomy for $ 400 million... Overstock.com aims to hold the largest - yet initial coin offering, topping FileCoin's $ 257 million offering in August... Uber is adding a «long pickup fee» as part of an effort to make rides more attractive where drivers have to go a distance before starting the ride; the question is
how it will go over with riders... AMD returned to profitability driven by sales of its Ryzen processor, per VentureBeat... Apple acquired New Zealand - based wireless charging firm PowerbyProxi for an undisclosed sum... TechCrunch reports that Honolulu has given final approval to a law that fines pedestrians who are looking at their phones while crossing a street.
If you're looking for an example of
how far self - driving technology has to go before it's ready to be adopted en masse, take my ride in one of Lyft's first
autonomous cars: On a demo ride earlier this month, the vehicle came across a bus that had seemingly stalled out.
You might also remember that Faraday Future, at the very same event where they were showing off
how fast their
autonomous - capable
car could go in a straight line, managed to embarrass themselves when their self - parking demo turned into a demonstration about
how their
car's
autonomous technology could emulate a panic attack.
I was surprised by the level of skill with which the
car drove itself, but also by
how many times it dropped out of
autonomous mode unexpectedly.
Next year's vehicle lineup introduces new safety features,
autonomous driving capability, and improved fuel economy — all of which affects
how you interact with clients in the
car.