INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
tech company has bought into the driverless car industry
millions of times in a single second, the light waves create an instant, constantly updating 3D map that will spot obstacles
gathered the latest details on which countries allow public driverless car testing, which companies are developing the smartest AI models,
car must be capable of navigating to a destination, avoiding obstacles, and parking without any human intervention.To accomplish this, a
driverless car must have an artificial intelligence system that senses its surroundings, processes the visual data to determine how to avoid
collisions, operates car machinery like the steering and brake, and uses GPS to track the car's current location and destination
its AI inside virtual cars and have the vehicles 'drive' billions of virtual miles, throwing every perceivable obstacle at the cars to see
are feeling safe enough to leave the driver's seat while their car's in motion, putting pedestrians (and themselves) at risk
done or watch Netflix instead of spending hours navigating through traffic
But why have companies invested an estimated $80 billion and years of work into this technologyFor starters, it could simply be a case of
Pretty much every major car company has developed or implemented some kind of autopilot technology into their cars
Not having that tech available could make a brand look out of date.But at least some companies have bold business plans for self-driving
tech beyond just fitting in with everyone else.Most car brands are very concerned with their crash safety ratings
If driverless car tech will truly reduce the rate of accidents, car companies will want to push this tech forward
AI safety ratings could even become a future metric for prospective car buyers to look at.Ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft,
Khosrowshahi said he wanted to have self-driving taxis picking up passengers by 2019, and that 20% or more of Uber's fleet could be
packages and pizza in a car that's not actually self-driving, but pretends to be in order to gauge the public's reaction.Most of these
self-driving car companies have convinced many state and national governments to let them test their AIs, nearly all governments strictly
limit the cars from driving outside of testing tracks.In the United States, 33 states have enacted legislation to allow for limited
both because Silicon Valley hosts so many tech companies and because California no longer requires a human behind the wheel if companies can
In the Netherlands, Amber Mobility plans to launch a Zipcar-like service of electric driverless cars in several Dutch cities in
the UK Autodrive initiative to push autonomous innovation, but, at the same time, the government is also conducting a three-year review of
Singapore have enabled companies to begin testing self-driving taxis, but always with a human behind the wheel
find that in pretty much every nation, although most road laws dictate that drivers keep their hands on the wheel and eyes on the road at
