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Self Driving Car

What Is Self Driving Car? It's a car without a human driver. This technology is helping to make transfer safer, faster and more comfortable. The history of autonomous vehicles starts in 1977 with the Tsukuba Mechanical Engineering lab in Japan with speed of 20 miles per hour. The Mercedes Benz robot van built during 1980s achieved a full speed of 60 miles per hour using vision guidance.



Why We Chose This Topic? We didn't hear it before, so we want to know more information and more details about our subjects. It's a new technology and it will be common to use in the future.

An Example of Self Driving Car From Toyota: Systems That Control Self Driving Car



Most of the self driving car looks same. In order to drive a car, a system would need to;

*Sensors Driverless cars are called mobility N.V. Mobility offers: a wide range of driver -Safety solutions -Combining artificial -Vision image processing, multiple technological-applications & information.

*Navigation The ability to plot a route from where the vehicle is to where the user wants to be has been available for several years. The more sophisticated systems also receive radio updates on road blockages, and adapt accordingly.

*Motion planning (traffic) A term used in robotics for the process of detailing. A task is into discrete motion. It should execute this task while avoiding objects like other cars.

*Actuation (operate the mechanics of the vehicle) Control of vehicle As automotive technology matures, more & more functions of the underlying engine, gearbox, etc are no longer directly controlled by the driver by mechanical means. It is controlled via computer, which receives instructions from the driver a inputs and delivers the desired effect by means of electronic throttle control. Therefore, the technology for a computer to control all aspects of a vehicle is well understood.

An Example Of Self Driving Car From Lucas Jaguar in 1994

How is it working

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Driverless Car from Germany

Google Testing Self Driving Car  ﻿﻿   Modified Toyota Prius as a Self Driving Car

Conclusinon According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents. This new technology will be cut the number to half. The Self- driving cars will transform car sharing and certainly reducing car usage, therefore that can cut energy and gas. Moreover, they can reduce traffic and car accidents. They can decrease air pollution as well. Because of the new technology we have to use modern things in 21st Century. Also, the Self-driving cars can be used in countries which make people over 70 years old pass a driving test and if they don't pass, they can't drive a car like Japan. The new technology helps those people who live in country side because they don't have any public transportation, so they can use Self-driving car.

Ford "Active Park Assist" for Parallel Parking
Ford Active Park Assist

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Active Park Assist will be featured in the rest of Ford's lineup in 2012.
*Lexus Car

*In 2008, General Motors announced that they will begin testing driverless car by 2015, and they could be on the road by 2018.

*Ford's Self-Driving Hybrid Darpa Car $89,000