Nishant Sing presented on driverless cars for his final year seminar at KIIT University, guided by Dr. Prachet Bhuyan. Driverless cars can travel from point A to point B without human interaction using sensors and software to locate itself and monitor its surroundings. It works using GPS, radar, lasers and cameras while obeying traffic laws. The car is limited to 25 mph for safety and has redundant systems for steering and braking. Advantages include reducing accidents and increasing road capacity, while limitations include potential hacking risks and inability to handle some conditions like snow. Driverless cars aim to minimize accidents by addressing causes like human error.

1. School of Computer Engineering
KIIT University
Final Year Seminar Presentation
on
Presented by - Nishant Sing
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Guided by - Dr. Prachet Bhuyan
Associate Dean (T&P)

2. What is it ?
◻ Ability of a car to get from point A to point B
without human interaction.
◻ The Google Driverless Car is a project by
Google that involves developing technology for
autonomous cars, mainly electric cars.

3. How Does it Works ?
◻ Powered by an electric motor with around a
100 mile range, the car uses a combination of
sensors and software to locate itself in the
real world combined with highly accurate
digital maps.
◻ A GPS is used, just like the satellite
navigation systems in most cars, to get a
rough location of the car, at which point radar,
lasers and cameras take over to monitor the
world around the car, 360-degrees.
◻ The software can recognize objects, people,
cars, road marking, signs and traffic lights,
obeying the rules of the road and allowing for
multiple unpredictable hazards, including
cyclists. It can even detect road works and
safely navigate around them.

4. Prototype

5. How safe is it ?
■ The car itself is limited to 25 mph, which
restricts it to certain roads, but also
minimises the kinetic energy it could
carry into a crash if one should happen.
■ The front of the car is also made to be as
kind to pedestrians as possible with a
foam bumper and a flexible windscreen
that is designed to absorb energy from
an impact with a person’s body.

6. ■ Seat belts are also provided – a safety
requirement for vehicles on the road.
■ While the car has redundant systems, a “fault-
tolerant architecture” as Google calls it, for both
steering and braking, should the primary
systems fails; plus that emergency stop button
that passengers can hit at any time.
How safe is it ? (Continued)

7. Advantages
■ Managing traffic flow to increase road capacity.
■ Relieving vehicle occupants from driving allowing
them to concentrate on other tasks or to rest
during their journeys.
■ To avoid accidents.
■ Increasing roadway capacity by reducing the
distances between cars.
■ The current location of vehicle can be determined
using global positioning system (GPS).

8. Limitations
■ If the vehicle is using internet which is having
less security then from the hackers point of
view in some cases the vehicle can be switched
off on the road(in rare cases).
■ Hackers can change the route which is plotted
in the system(in rare cases).
■ In case of failure of main sensor and backup
sensors the vehicle can create a chance of
accident .

9. Limitations (Continued)
■ The vehicles are unable to recognise temporary
traffic signals. They have not proven
themselves in snow or rain.
■ They are also unable to navigate through
parking lots.
■ Vehicles are unable to differentiate between
pedestrian and policeman or between crumpled
up paper and a rock. Google projects having
these issues fixed by 2024.

10. Conclusion
■ The driverless car’s technologies improves
vehicle's stability helps to minimise loss of
control.
■ Driver less cars are designed to minimise
accidents by addressing the main causes of
collisions: driving error, distraction and
drowsiness.

11. References
◻ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J17Qgc4a8xY
◻ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/driverless car
◻ http://autocontrols.com.au/
◻ http://www.howstuffworks.com/cruise-control
◻ http://www.howstuffworks.com/electronic stability control

12. Thank You
End of Presentation