This document provides an overview of electric transport and automation, including:
- The requirements and benefits of automated vehicles, such as reducing traffic and increasing safety.
- The key sensors used in self-driving cars like cameras, lidar, radar, and speedometers.
- How automated vehicles make decisions through techniques like obstacle avoidance, path planning, and localization using maps generated from sensor data.
- Some of the top companies developing automated vehicle technology, including Google, QNX, and Delphi.
- Remaining technological barriers around issues like unreliable GPS and computer vision challenges in certain environments.