AUTONOMOUS CARS- Sarvesh Kumar Jha

Contents

• How will it run?• Other big players• Future market scenario• Future prospects

How will it run?• RADARRadar sensors are used to detect dangerous objects in vehicle’s path and trigger alerts if detect something.

• OPTICSCamera mounted near the rear-view mirror not only spots hazards like pedestrians and animals, but also identifies road markings and traffic signals.

• LIDARLight Detection And Ranging(LIDAR) consists of emitter, mirror and receiver. It generates a map of its surroundings and uses the map to avoid objects.

How will it run?(Contd.)• GPSGlobal Positioning System(GPS) keeps the car on its intended route with an accuracy of 30 cms.

• PROCESSORSProcessors are needed to make sense of the data collected by various car instruments.

Other Big Players• By 2020, GM, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Nissan, BMW, Renault, Tesla and Google all expect to sell vehicles that can drive themselves at least part of the time.

• By 2020, Google aims to have all outstanding problems with the autonomous car be resolved.

• Uber is working on a driverless taxi system aiming to make cab system so cheap that owning a car would seem to be expensive.

• By 2018, Elon Musk expects Tesla Motors to have developed mature serial production version of fully self-driving cars, where the driver can fall asleep.

• By 2024, Jaguar expects to release an autonomous car.

Future Market Scenario• 1st quadrant denotes the auto industry today which is exposed to major forces of change.

• The sharing economy leads to the emergence of companies which provide mobility as a service.

• In parallel, the auto industry faces the trend toward autonomous driving.

• The future of the auto industry can be found in this fourth quadrant.

Future prospects• Cause unprecedented job loss and a fundamental restructuring of our economy

• Solve large portions of our environmental problems

• Prevent tens of thousands of deaths per year

• Save millions of hours with increased productivity

• Create entire new industries that we cannot even imagine from our current vantage point

References1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car

2. http://zackkanter.com/2015/01/23/how-ubers-autonomous-cars-will-destroy-10-million-jobs-by-2025/

3. http://www.driverless-future.com/

4. http://www.techinsider.io/ubers-future-is-driverless-cars-2015-9

5. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/541046/toyota-investing-50m-with-stanford-mit-for-autonomous-car-research/

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