The Future of Road Travel – The Autonomous Car
The future is here, well almost! Have you every heard of the saying, technology is growing faster and faster everyday? What if you could be able to go on a trip, and never once touch the wheel! Well the future is here! The self-driving car or better known as the autonomous car is a vehicle that is capable of doing everything that our traditional cars do without any help from humans. Autonomous cars use radar, GPS, cameras, and sensors to navigate the roads and highways. There are many positive effects that come with the autonomous car, but every great thing has it downsides! Will the autonomous car be our future?
Autonomous control implies to good performance under certain situations in the …show more content…
The cars use the sensing capabilities and software to choose a safe speed, accelerate, brake and make turns, while anticipating other vehicle’s actions to plan its movements. Self-driving cars’ drivers can sit back, sleep, or eat while the car does the driving for them.
While some may think this is a new technology, experiments have been conducted on self-driving cars since the 1920s, it was General Motors’ Firebird II, which was described as having an, “electronic brain.” Which allowed it to move into different lanes with a metal conductor following behind it. Then the first autonomous car appeared in the 1980’s with Carnegie Mellon University’s Navlab experiment. Since then, many research organizations have continued to promote this idea, such as Mercedes- Benz, General Motors, IAV, Autoliv Inc. , Bosch, Nissan, Renault, Toyota, Audi, Volvo, and AKKA
The future is here, well almost! Have you every heard of the saying, technology is growing faster and faster everyday? What if you could be able to go on a trip, and never once touch the wheel! Well the future is here! The self-driving car or better known as the autonomous car is a vehicle that is capable of doing everything that our traditional cars do without any help from humans. Autonomous cars use radar, GPS, cameras, and sensors to navigate the roads and highways. There are many positive effects that come with the autonomous car, but every great thing has it downsides! Will the autonomous car be our future?
Autonomous control implies to good performance under certain situations in the …show more content…
The cars use the sensing capabilities and software to choose a safe speed, accelerate, brake and make turns, while anticipating other vehicle’s actions to plan its movements. Self-driving cars’ drivers can sit back, sleep, or eat while the car does the driving for them.
While some may think this is a new technology, experiments have been conducted on self-driving cars since the 1920s, it was General Motors’ Firebird II, which was described as having an, “electronic brain.” Which allowed it to move into different lanes with a metal conductor following behind it. Then the first autonomous car appeared in the 1980’s with Carnegie Mellon University’s Navlab experiment. Since then, many research organizations have continued to promote this idea, such as Mercedes- Benz, General Motors, IAV, Autoliv Inc. , Bosch, Nissan, Renault, Toyota, Audi, Volvo, and AKKA