About autonomous cars

1. The Future is Autonomous
George Brown College
August, 2018
Erman Akyol

2. • Autonomous cars
• History
• Classification
• Companies
• Advantages
• Disadvangates
• Conclusion
• Discussion
Content

3. What is an Autonomous car?
• A vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating
without human input.
• A convergence of spaces
• Perceives its surroundings by means of radar, laser light, GPS, odometry,
computer vision.
A future car from 1950s Benz Concept Car, ©2015

4. Classification

5. History of Autonomous cars
• Experiments were first conducted 1920s
• Promising trials took place in the 1950s
• The first truly autonomous car was developed in 1977
• Autonomous prototype cars appeared in the 1980s
• In 2015, the US states of Nevada, Florida, California, Virginia, Michigan, Washington, D.C.
General Motors' Firebird II of the 1950s was described as
having an "electronic brain" that allowed it to move into a
lane with a metal conductor and follow it along.
1960 Citroën DS19, modified by TRL for automatic
guidance experiments, on display at the Science
Museum, London.[18]

6. Which companies are making
autonomous cars?
https://www.techworld.com/picture-gallery/data/

7. Why do we need autonomous cars?
• They will change
• Safer
• Less traffic congestion
• Inclusive and easy driving
o the way we travel
o the ways we work and live
Prototype of Rinspeed’s Xchange self-driving car. — credit | Rinspeed
http://www.kurzweilai.net/automobile-the-arrival-of-autonomous-cars-examin

8. • Human error is believed to cause 94 percent of all traffic crashes
in the U.S. and 75 percent in the U.K (2018).

9. Why do we need autonomous cars?
• Human skills and behaviours
• Lack of experience
• Consumption of intoxicating substances
• Ego and emotional changes
• Stress, health and fatigue
• Age, disabilities
• Other distractions

10. Why do we need autonomous cars?
• Take the passenger to the hospital
• Transfer the information
• Contact with other cars
• Choose the closest way
• Even detect a heart attack
before it happens
• Supplies treatment information
• Relaxes the passenger on the way
to hospital

11. Why do we need autonomous cars?
• Less traffic congestion
• Fewer traffic violations
• Informs your position and anticipates your
next move
• Reduces spaces between cars
• Non-stop flow of traffic
• Chooses the most efficient route
• Ride-sharing

12. Why do we hesitate using autonomous cars?
• Adaptation
• Worry about
• Lost of human control
• Privacy concerns
• Legal liability
• Recent accidents
o system/equipment failures
o hacking
o misuse

13. Will we accept these cars?
• Advantages in evidence
• Adaptation
• Interest in what is new
• Trends
• Improvements in software
and technology
• No improvement in
human skill and abilities

14. Conclusion
• Their benefits (road safety, reduced congestion, inclusive driving)
are greater
• They will o revolutionize the auto industry
o make big changes in our lives
o evolve and earn our trust
o offer us freedom
o open the door for a new culture of autonomous driving

15. Discussion
• Have you ever had an accident on the road? What was the reason
for it? Was it human failure?
• Do you want your kids or grandkids to learn to drive?
• Have you ever hated being on the roads, driving? What could you
have done being doing instead?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car