Self - guided cars are an area in which the Google has put special emphasis, and continues to do so by improving its software.
As the company announced, since its last update until now, it has recorded thousands of miles of routes on the roads of its Mountain View California (where its headquarters are located).
“A mile of city driving is much more complex than a mile of driving on the open road, with hundreds of different objects moving according to different road rules in a small area. We've improved our software to be able to detect hundreds of distinct objects simultaneously – pedestrians, buses, stop signs from traffic police, or cyclists doing turn signals. A self-driving one car it can attend to all of this in a way that a human cannot – and never gets tired or distracted,” writes Chris Ermson, director of the company's self-driving car program, on the company's official blog.
As he points out, what appears chaotic and random to the human eye on city streets is predictable to computers. “As we faced thousands of different situations, we created models software for what is expected, from the probable (a car stopping at a red light) to the improbable (a car running a red light). We still have many problems to solve, including teaching the vehicle to drive on more roads in Mountain View before going to another city, but thousands of situations on city roads that two years ago would have given us problems can now be handled autonomously,” he adds. .
According to Erson, the company's vehicles have now recorded about 700.000 miles of autonomous course.
At the same time, in a similar context, the pilot project "Drive Me", with the support of the Swedish government, with 100 self-guiding Volvo, starts in Gothenburg, Sweden. The aim is to examine the economic, environmental and social advantages of using the stand-alone vehicles and to familiarize the public with new technology. The first vehicles are expected to start running on 2017's streets.
Source: naftemporiki.gr
