Autonomous Cars Concepts

An autonomous car is an independent vehicle capable of fulfilling the transportation capabilities of a standard car on its own by navigating and sensing the environment without any human intervention or input.

They use techniques such as computer vision, lidar, GPS and radar to sense their surroundings. The sensory information is then interpreted using advanced control systems in order to identify appropriate paths for navigation, relevant signals and any obstacles. This implies that they always update their sensory information based on sensory input making them able to detect their positions even when they enter into undocumented areas or even when the conditions change.

The automotive industry is on the brink of a major transformation as various car concepts hits the streets of various cities. The artificial intelligence used by them is changing the relationship between the driver, the car and future transportation. The technology used in these cars shifts the various roles which initially performed by humans to be performed by the car.

From Google self-driving car, Volvo autonomous vehicle, PSA Peugeot-Citroen, LUTZ Pathfinder to the recent unveiled Nissan IDS concepts, and Honda, Apple and General Motors already making ways for the development of those cars seems like the future where all the automotive industry may be headed.

Various manufacturers are already facing in technologies such as automatic braking system which allows the car to apply brakes automatically in the face of an imminent collision. This can be seen as the one of the first steps toward the adoption of autonomous cars and the technology that the come with.

This new technology may offer such potential benefits as: Reduction in accidents and traffic collisions since they have more accurate situational awareness and can always monitor their surrounding using a broad range of sensors and avoid potential hazard by determining a safe reaction with much accuracy than humans could. Accidents and traffic collisions could also be reduced since they are not prone to aggressive or distractive driving, or other forms of human errors which could lead to accidents when driving.

Also those cars could alleviate parking scarcity, reduce the size of physical space required for parking and lead to reduction in the number of cars since they could drop off passengers and go pick up others in other spaces, the car could drop off passengers then go park in other locations and only return when needed and can also lead to an increase car sharing since they can pick and drop off passengers at different places.

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