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Automobiles
Volvo Autopilot Cars
react faster than you
Picture this – You are driving
in a car to your workplace in
the bustling traffic that looks
quite like furious and not fast,
cut to, having a sumptuous
breakfast, after reading a
book, and throwing a glance
at your spreadsheets, with
hands free auto drive. Or you
might as well catch up on that
sleep
No Prizes for guessing as
Volvo is en route to making a
self drive car, will just make it
possible by 2017.
Volvo Cars’ Drive Me pilot
program announced last
week will push autonomous
driving a step closer to reality
by putting 100 self-driving
XC90 crossovers on Swedish
streets by 2017.
The vehicles will be driven
by ordinary people in Volvo’s
home city of Gothenburg
using a controlled 31-mile
route. They’ll be used for daily
commuting on roads with a
barrier between the lanes and
operate “in real traffic in a real
situation,” the company said.
The trial will run until the
spring of 2019.
Heard that Apple Inc., trying
to catch up, is also trying to
with the ambition to enable
ordinary people to sit behind
the wheel in normal traffic on
public roads, has never been
done before.”
Volvo is collaborating with
Swedish authorities. The cars
will be leased to drivers, but
they won’t be charged for the
full cost of the technology.
Volvo experts discussed the
project during an Internet
press conference.
So, What is the new
Autopilot system in Volvo
cars?
They’ll use a new Volvo
autopilot system that allows
the vehicle to take over
steering, turning, braking
and parking. The trial will run
on specific public roadways
“without oncoming traffic,
cyclists and pedestrians,”
Volvo said.
“It is relatively easy to build
and demonstrate a self-driving
concept vehicle, but if you
want to create an impact
in the real world, you have
to design and produce a
complete system that will be
safe, robust and affordable for
ordinary customers,” said Erik
Coelingh, a Volvo technical
specialist.
make a self driving car, but,
the Chinese-owned group
is locked in a race with
its Japanese competitors
Nissan and US Internet giant
Google to be the first to put
fully automated cars into
circulation.
The Technology behind
self driving cars
The technology is based
on communication between
transmitters in vehicles and
the road infrastructure, and
makes it possible to transmit
information about local icy or
slippery road patches from
one car to other vehicles.
Vehicles communicating with
each other and with road
signs, traffic lights and other
infrastructure enables vital
information to be shared --
creating a more comfortable
and safer drive.
The autonomous vehicles
will use a network of sensors,
cloud-based positioning
systems and intelligent
braking and steering
technologies.
“We are entering uncharted
territory in the field of
autonomous driving,” said
Peter Mertens, senior vice
president of r&d of the Volvo
Car Group. “Taking the
exciting step to a public pilot,
The driver will be able to take
control in critical situations,
Volvo said.
Volvo said it has built in fail-
safe systems, similar to those
in the aircraft industry, so that
the autopilot system continues
to work if an element is
disabled. For instance, the
vehicles will have a second,
independent brake system.
The system also will
prompt the driver to take
over during “exceptional
weather conditions, technical
malfunction or the end of
the route,” Volvo said. “If the
driver is incapacitated for any
reason and does not take over
in time, the car will bring itself
to a safe place to stop.”
And Who does it cater
to?
“The customer demand
future.”
“By putting it into the real
world, we will find limitations,
we will learn and we will
adapt,” said Coelingh. “Within
this limited scope, we can
verify if it is safe.”
The vehicles will have data
recorders similar to an
airplane’s black box so Volvo
can determine the cause if a
crash occurs.
In a bid to bring ‘the future’
to the present, technologies
are evolving beyond common
imagination with brilliance
not failing to to impress every
time. However, technologies
than challenge the Humans’
ability will have a testing
phase incurring some loss in
terms of disasters.
Kudos to the relentless efforts
to all the technicians and
engineers involved!
is high -- commuters in
megacities -- road conditions
are appropriate, and the
authorities are positive,” said
Karl-Johan Runnberg, director
of government affairs for
Volvo Cars.
Runnberg said the cost of an
autonomous-driving system
won’t be much higher than
that of today’s active-safety
and driver-support systems.
Volvo will disclose which
suppliers it is working with
closer to launch, he said.
The 2016 XC90 that goes on
sale in May already has some
of the systems -- including
three radar systems and
four cameras. The sensor
technology and algorithms will
be reused for the self-driving
cars.
Volvo experts said the
technology for the pilot project
is “producible in the near