As of late, the car industry has seemed more akin to the
technology industry, specifically when it comes to developing smarter and
smarter cars that are capable of amazing things that will soon become the norm,
such as communicating with other cars, reading traffic lights, and making
updates automatically via the Internet.
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To reach this new digital reality, there has been clear
cooperation between car companies and tech giants to develop the future nature
of cars and the way they are driven. In short, an “online” car capable of
communication, recognizing its surroundings, and driving itself.
The goal is to reduce the number of accidents to zero, this
is the goal that many car manufacturers have announced, as the car will become
smart and able to process the images sent by its cameras to its “brains” in
real time. Of course, Apple is developing its smart car with self-driving
technology, as are Google and other tech giants.
One of the facts that
senior officials from major auto companies such as Mercedes-Benz and BMW have
talked about is that the transportation of the future represents a growing
market for software developers to demonstrate how transportation can work in
the future.
One such idea is that software can send route reports to
other cars, which would require enough computing power to process large amounts
of data, some of which might reach 100 megabytes.
The trend now is towards eliminating gasoline vehicles, and
many governments are planning to ban the sale of all cars and trucks that run
on gasoline, diesel, and various other fuels by 2040, based on mounting
concerns that rising levels of carbon monoxide and air pollutants will pose a
growing public health risk and further contribute to climate change.
The French government has officially announced its intention
to end the sale of diesel and gasoline by 2040 as part of the ambitious goals
it set at the Paris Climate Conference. The Swedish car company
"Volvo" also announced its intention to focus on manufacturing
electric cars during the current decade 2020–2030. The Netherlands decided to
ban fuel and diesel starting from 2025, while some federal states in Germany
are seeking to phase them out starting in 2030. All of this gives us an
indication for the beginning of the end of the internal combustion engines dominance
after more than a century of production.
There are many systems inside smart cars to make them
capable of self-driving without a driver, most notably the American EV company
Tesla’s Auto Pilot system, as it has remote sensors that can draw a
three-dimensional map to allow the car to see potential dangers.
This is done by a laser that’s emitted from the car to
determine accurate distances, identify the features of objects and people, and
monitor nearby parking lots. However, while the sensors can make maps, they are
not able to accurately determine the speed of surrounding cars in real time.
So, the radar's role is to send a signal to the processor to apply the brakes,
or get off the road when needed to avoid accidents.
Cameras in self-driving cars provide overlapping images of a
car's surroundings, not unlike the work of the human eye, which produces overlapping
images before determining the surrounding depth of field, spurious motions, and
object dimensions. Each camera provides a 50° viewing angle, with an accuracy
of about 30 meters, while ultrasonic sensors located in the car's wheels enable
it to detect other vehicles in the parking lot, and a central computer analyzes
all the available data from the sensors to control the vehicle, including acceleration,
stopping, and other operations.
Faced with competition and the development and transition to
the era of electric and self-driving cars, Daimler (
Mercedes Benz) and
BMW have
strengthened their alliance to share the cost of developing technology for
automated driving.
However, each company is making an independent effort to
develop fully autonomous cars. The high cost of designing and manufacturing
computer-powered vehicles has prompted BMW and Daimler to develop a model that
covers a number of automation stages, including technology that enables
automated driving on highways.
The focus will initially be on developing next-generation
driver assistance and automated driving technologies.
The Japanese giant —
Toyota, in turn has managed to acquire a
famous robotics expert from Google to enhance its artificial intelligence unit,
and Toyota says that another type of machine may solve an Auto shop issue.
“Robots in homes may eventually become much more personal in
the future than cars were in the past,” Pratt says. Toyota has confirmed that
it wants to take advantage of its acquired skills in order to build driverless
cars to keep pace with the development of home robots, which are likely to
herald a major transformation in its work.
A smart car that is able to drive itself without driver
intervention is closer to reality than we think.
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