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Innovative Driverless Vehicles

In todays world everything turning to be automated and this is considered to be the

competitive edge for the product or the process. Most importantly systems are giving

space to make them automated. Since the artificial intelligence has come up and doing

miracles in different industry sectors at commercial and individual level, the expectations

of the industry and market raised and the demand is been realized by the manufacturers.

The artificial intelligence in the automotives has set the expectations more high for

driverless cars.

In automotives the trend is bringing up many changes, innovations and autonomous

driving cars are no more science fictions. The recent result is Googles Driverless Car

that stood as a revolution in the field. However, driverless or autonomous cars footage is

since 1939, when GMs sponsored Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama was showcased at the

1939 Worlds Fair. This was followed by Mercedes-Benz robotic van and DARPA-

funded Autonomous Land Vehicle in the year 1980, twin robot vehicles VaMP and Vita-

2 of Daimler-Benz and Ernst Dickmanns of UniBwM during 1994 and in the year 1995,

Dickmanns re-engineered autonomous S-Class Mercedes-Benz. Meanwhile, Carnegie

Mellon University Navlab and University of Parma also came up with the projects which

achieved 98.2% and 94% of the time the car was in fully automatic mode.

US Government has funded for military efforts that are known as Demo I & Demo III for

US Army and Demo II for DARPA. In the 2001, Demo III proved the ability of

unmanned ground vehicles to navigate miles of difficult off-road terrain. An

intercontinental trip, which was the longest autonomous vehicle trip of four driverless

electric vans for 13,000 km from Italy to China took place and reached the Shanghai

Expo on 28 October, 2010. All these milestones show the significance that autonomousor driverless cars have in the market, irrespective of commercial, security, defense or

personal end purposes.

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Motivation for these trends

Current average vehicle is having more

advanced computer work implanted

compared to the Apollo 11 landed on

moon in 1969. So, the average vehicles

are employed with sensors to do

automatic Parallel Park, warn drivers if

another car is in the driver's blind spot,

distance control assist to automatically

slowdown a vehicle when an object is close ahead, and lane departure technology that

redirects a car if it begins to veer out of its lane and so on.

Recently released project, Google Driverless Car is equipped with an array of sensors on

the car that monitors the surroundings, the road and traffic conditions at 20 times a

second, rigid safety systems along with cameras, radar and laser sensors, enabling them

to monitor the lead vehicle and other vehicles on the road. While the information is

assessed by the computer intelligence to decide whether the car should speed up, slow

down or change lanes. Another advantage of this car is that the computer doesn't get

distracted by incoming phone calls or roadside advertisements like humans. This vehicle

is based on the Toyota Prius that cant break the speed limit without their extra

involvement, for instance. Mr. Bruce Breslow, Director - Nevada's Department of Motor

Vehicles, approved license for this car in May, 2012 and said that "I sat in the back seat

first, looking at the laptop that shows what the vehicle is seeing. My apprehension

disappeared after about five seconds. Once I felt confident that the car could see better

than I could, they allowed me to get behind the wheel."

The core advantages of the Google Driverless Car are

Right configuration and sensors on this car makes it automatically calculate the

optimal distance to begin slowing down before a stop sign or turn and also be able

to carefully modulate speed and acceleration rates to optimize use of the engine in

use and ultimately results less fuel consumption.

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360 degree cameras monitoring reduces the traffic jams because merging,stopping, and turning would become much more precise.

Lower auto insurance rates for the statistics the self-driving car has proved as a

safety feature during long trips

Optimized routing have access to databases of information on speed limits for

each road, and potentially at some point on the timing of each traffic light and this

gives options to the car to reach the passenger to a destination with a minimum of

stops and slow-ups.

Less maintenance is the result of driving the car respectably that last longer and

require fewer repairs.

BMWs Track Trainerwith a modified 3 Series built on the standard production of the

330i model was also tested. The car used

a built-in GPS

a signal booster

accompanying repeater for increasing bandwidth and accuracy down to the

centimeter

a custom map of the track

In the next iteration BMW 5 Series was showcased with ConnectedDrive Connect (CDC)

system that allows the driver to keep hands off the wheel of the 5 Series while speeding

down on the Autobahn. So, with the CDC system, the car can brake, accelerate and pass

other vehicles while analyzing the traffic conditions by using radar, cameras, laser

scanners, and ultrasound distance sensors to get the information it needs.

Technology Company Intel, car manufacturers BMW, Ford, Toyota and General Motors

are on the mission looking for ways to improve the driverless motor car they already

developed and these efforts increasingly adding some more automation in their new R&D

labs. These manufactures have already made huge advances in the past decade and much

of achievements are already applied in commercial vehicles. While, a convoy of self

driving cars for the first time in the world are experimented by Volvo Car Corporation on

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a public motorway in Spain at normal traffic. This Volvo project is named as SARTRE

(Safe Road Trains for the Environment) that has many other research partners.

The race to roll out autonomous or driverless cars took faster pace in the recent times

with Googles Diverless car that gained license from Nevada Department of Motor

Vehicles and the three Volvo saloons cruised the highways of Spain. Business plans are

framed on the concept and manufacturers are looking for reliable suppliers. So, this

driverless car has opened the horizon of business opportunities and technical challenges

to other industry sectors too, like camera manufacturers, sensor manufacturers, safety

systems manufacturers, custom computers, softwares and others.