Are driverless cars for real?
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DRIVERLESS BUSES ARRIVE IN PARIS
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/paris-driverless-buses/
While much of the talk recently has been about self-driving cars tootling about towns, an increasing number of companies have been impressing city governments with their designs for self-driving shuttle buses.
The latest metropolis to welcome such technology to its streets is Paris, a place whose ongoing struggle with smog has prompted it to look ever more closely at electric-operated public transportation solutions. And autonomous ones, at that.
It’s admittedly a tentative start, with only two “EZ10” buses trundling along a designated lane connecting Lyon and Austerlitz stations in central Paris – a distance of just over half a mile (1 km). However, the three-month trial, which started on Monday and offers free rides seven days a week, will be expanded to other locations in the French capital later this year.
“Autonomous vehicles represent a revolution for every city on the planet [that] will change our urban environment and public space in a spectacular fashion over the next 20 years,” Jean-Louis Missika, the city’s deputy mayor,told AFP.
Easy Mile
Built by French firm EasyMile, the small EZ10 vehicle can hold up to 12 people, and uses cameras, lasers, and GPS to get around. With a top speed of only 12 mph (20 kmh), the bus is better suited for short trips between facilities within particular locations, such as airports, shopping malls, and amusement parks. Indeed, EasyMile itself describes the EZ10 as ideal for covering “short distances and predefined routes in multi-use environments.”
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/paris-driverless-buses/
While much of the talk recently has been about self-driving cars tootling about towns, an increasing number of companies have been impressing city governments with their designs for self-driving shuttle buses.
The latest metropolis to welcome such technology to its streets is Paris, a place whose ongoing struggle with smog has prompted it to look ever more closely at electric-operated public transportation solutions. And autonomous ones, at that.
It’s admittedly a tentative start, with only two “EZ10” buses trundling along a designated lane connecting Lyon and Austerlitz stations in central Paris – a distance of just over half a mile (1 km). However, the three-month trial, which started on Monday and offers free rides seven days a week, will be expanded to other locations in the French capital later this year.
“Autonomous vehicles represent a revolution for every city on the planet [that] will change our urban environment and public space in a spectacular fashion over the next 20 years,” Jean-Louis Missika, the city’s deputy mayor,told AFP.
Easy Mile
Built by French firm EasyMile, the small EZ10 vehicle can hold up to 12 people, and uses cameras, lasers, and GPS to get around. With a top speed of only 12 mph (20 kmh), the bus is better suited for short trips between facilities within particular locations, such as airports, shopping malls, and amusement parks. Indeed, EasyMile itself describes the EZ10 as ideal for covering “short distances and predefined routes in multi-use environments.”
Yeah, I don't see how it could actually be a legitimate technology on a large scale.
Yes. Still work to do traini n g the AI for all the different driving situations but the technology seems solid.
Watch this video and see when you can detect the impending accident. If you hear the beeps before you can detect the impending accident then the car can detect impending accidents better than you can.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/...743ab4b833a1fcc0aae6fdcb8f0fa4ac&action=click
They're for real, they're good and they're getting better every day. The driverless car part doesn't worry me at all, what worries me is what all those people that drive for a living are going to do when technology makes their job obsolete.
Yes, technology has been making job obsolete forever with new jobs ultimately taking their place, but I'm worried that technology is becoming so good that the number of jobs being taken over by technology will become more than the new jobs that will be created. I hope I'm wrong.
