One major breakthrough about which I got to learn was the Google's new driverless car.
The internet giant is already famous for its various services and now has ventured into the automated car technology.This revolutionary technology has been developed by Google X
and the software installed in it is called the Chauffeur, a pretty interesting name in my opinion.
Many states in the U.S. have passed legislation to allow people to use these cars on the road. However, majority of them are still thinking whether to introduce the tech.
No doubt that this is a huge change in which people commute, there is still a question mark about the complete trust of people in these vehicles.
The positive and much desired features that it provides are 1) Using of the LIDAR tech and a special camera known as "Velodyne 64-beam laser" to map the trajectory and the connect with the maps to form a high resolution 3D trajectory to drive itself. It is like using google earth feature of street view to map the cars path.
2)It has an amazing ability to sense obstacles and obtrusions in the path and veer around them as safely as possible. On many road testing incidences it has proved to be more efficacious than experienced drivers.
3)In many testing incidences with the disabled, google has found that people who are legally blind or are unable to drive have heralded this technology as ''pioneer'' not only in cleaner fuel etc., but also in satisfying and really fulfilling the customer.
However, as does every new technology have, this too had some limitations. The most important of them all was that sometimes the sensing ability of the car was not extremely accurate. On one testing incident the car sensed sandbags lying on the road and so it veered to the left to avoid them but instead crashed into an overtaking bus. Further the LIDAR tech is not so well developed as to sense every pothole on the road thus a few bumpy cases will always exist.
So, in my view google X has launched a revolutionary product which more and more countries should adopt; however only when the sensing tech will have improved a bit more. No doubt that this car/ a kind of A.I. will change the roads of this world but after a few years.
Google is making groundbreaking discoveries and once it has further perfected its model, the self-driving car will hit the roads in massive numbers.
The internet giant is already famous for its various services and now has ventured into the automated car technology.This revolutionary technology has been developed by Google X
and the software installed in it is called the Chauffeur, a pretty interesting name in my opinion.
Many states in the U.S. have passed legislation to allow people to use these cars on the road. However, majority of them are still thinking whether to introduce the tech.
No doubt that this is a huge change in which people commute, there is still a question mark about the complete trust of people in these vehicles.
The positive and much desired features that it provides are 1) Using of the LIDAR tech and a special camera known as "Velodyne 64-beam laser" to map the trajectory and the connect with the maps to form a high resolution 3D trajectory to drive itself. It is like using google earth feature of street view to map the cars path.
2)It has an amazing ability to sense obstacles and obtrusions in the path and veer around them as safely as possible. On many road testing incidences it has proved to be more efficacious than experienced drivers.
3)In many testing incidences with the disabled, google has found that people who are legally blind or are unable to drive have heralded this technology as ''pioneer'' not only in cleaner fuel etc., but also in satisfying and really fulfilling the customer.
However, as does every new technology have, this too had some limitations. The most important of them all was that sometimes the sensing ability of the car was not extremely accurate. On one testing incident the car sensed sandbags lying on the road and so it veered to the left to avoid them but instead crashed into an overtaking bus. Further the LIDAR tech is not so well developed as to sense every pothole on the road thus a few bumpy cases will always exist.
So, in my view google X has launched a revolutionary product which more and more countries should adopt; however only when the sensing tech will have improved a bit more. No doubt that this car/ a kind of A.I. will change the roads of this world but after a few years.
Google is making groundbreaking discoveries and once it has further perfected its model, the self-driving car will hit the roads in massive numbers.
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