SUPREME MOTORS, INC.
MEMORANDUM
Date: November 14, 2017
To: Harv Mock
From: Rijul Chawla, Executive manager
Subject: How driverless car works and when will we get them.
The purpose of this report is to put light on the topic driverless car – The car that can think. I have used case study research method to find details about the report below. This report tells you how Google’s Driverless car works, how driverless cars are tested, its’ Safety and when it can hit the road.
Mechanism of driverless cars
First step toward driverless cars came in the 1980s, and it's still with us today: Anti-lock brakes (ABS). Google’s driverless car has eight sensors. The most noticeable is the rotating roof-top LIDAR – a camera that uses an array of 32 or …show more content…
This also looks for nearby hazards - such as pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists – and reads road signs and detects traffic lights.
How are Driverless cars tested?
Any test begins by sending out a driver in a conventionally driven car to map the route and road conditions. The car always has two people inside: a qualified driver with an unblemished record sits in the driver’s seat, to take control of the car by either turning the wheel or pressing the brake, while an engineer sits in the passenger seat to monitor the behaviour of the software. Four US states have passed laws allowing driverless cars on the road, and Google has taken full advantage, testing its car on motorways and suburban streets.
Is it Safe?
A question that pops up in everyone’s mind is that is it safe? Supporters of self-driving car technologies are quick to point to statistics that highlight how unsafe the roads are at the hands of non-autonomous cars – in 2013, 1,730 people were killed because of car accidents in the UK alone, and a further 185,540 people were injured, according to the Office for National Statistics. In April, Google announced that its driverless cars had covered over 700,000 miles (1.12 million kilometres) without a recorded accident caused by one of its vehicles - one was hit from behind, but the other driver was at
MEMORANDUM
Date: November 14, 2017
To: Harv Mock
From: Rijul Chawla, Executive manager
Subject: How driverless car works and when will we get them.
The purpose of this report is to put light on the topic driverless car – The car that can think. I have used case study research method to find details about the report below. This report tells you how Google’s Driverless car works, how driverless cars are tested, its’ Safety and when it can hit the road.
Mechanism of driverless cars
First step toward driverless cars came in the 1980s, and it's still with us today: Anti-lock brakes (ABS). Google’s driverless car has eight sensors. The most noticeable is the rotating roof-top LIDAR – a camera that uses an array of 32 or …show more content…
This also looks for nearby hazards - such as pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists – and reads road signs and detects traffic lights.
How are Driverless cars tested?
Any test begins by sending out a driver in a conventionally driven car to map the route and road conditions. The car always has two people inside: a qualified driver with an unblemished record sits in the driver’s seat, to take control of the car by either turning the wheel or pressing the brake, while an engineer sits in the passenger seat to monitor the behaviour of the software. Four US states have passed laws allowing driverless cars on the road, and Google has taken full advantage, testing its car on motorways and suburban streets.
Is it Safe?
A question that pops up in everyone’s mind is that is it safe? Supporters of self-driving car technologies are quick to point to statistics that highlight how unsafe the roads are at the hands of non-autonomous cars – in 2013, 1,730 people were killed because of car accidents in the UK alone, and a further 185,540 people were injured, according to the Office for National Statistics. In April, Google announced that its driverless cars had covered over 700,000 miles (1.12 million kilometres) without a recorded accident caused by one of its vehicles - one was hit from behind, but the other driver was at