Automatic driving still has a long distance

Recently, a "Google automatically driving a car in the United States be allowed on the road" message of concern. According to foreign media reports that Nevada motor vehicle management department has granted Google's automatic driving a motor vehicle licenses, and allow the car to test driving on public roads.

    It is understood that the car's license plate color is red, to serve as a warning. The car's license plate number is 001, next to a mathematical symbol "infinity", meaning "the future of the car the best way. Autonomous vehicles in the future the majority of residents recognized the license plate will be changed to green. To automatically drive a car, but according to the regulations of Nevada, the vehicles on the road, the car must have two crew, one person sitting in the driver's seat to prevent an emergency, another person responsible for monitoring the traffic routes of the computer planning. Interestingly, Google requires, Nevada government should be allowed to participate in testing the two crew of the legitimate use of mobile phones to send text messages in the car during the test.

    It is reported that Google's automatic driving a car can obtain a license through a rigorous review at the same time, Google also paid a deposit of one million U.S. dollars for the test driving. In the United States, some states, including California, Oklahoma, Hawaii and Florida, is also intended to test given the green light to the auto-driving a car on the road.

    Nevada vehicle management bureau Bray Slobodan said in an interview, autonomous vehicles is expected to push the market in 3-5 years after the formal. It is understood that not only is Google, in fact, including BMW, Toyota, General Motors and other car manufacturers already begun the study of autonomous vehicles, and has been related outcomes announced.

    Not only in the United States, in fact, more than 20 years, China has also been on autopilot technology launched a study in which the outcome is the most prominent is the Tongji University and the car dvd and car gps National Defense University. Unmanned technology, the National Defense University for urban roads, the speed on the highway can reach 160 kilometers per hour, and Tongji University research directions are more inclined to the autopilot of the electric car.

    Industry insiders said, automatically driving a car into the homes of ordinary people still have a long distance product launch is not difficult, but the difficulty is mainly concentrated in the price. Expected to 2030, auto driving a car to be possible to completely take over the driving duties, and used in the production vehicle.

    Also at the end of last year's Tokyo Motor Show, Toyota publicly for the first time the Prius prototype automatic driving experiments car AVOS (AutomaticVehicleOperationSystem) driving demo. The experimental car driver to avoid obstacles, and at low speed on a circular track.

    According to reports, the demonstration vehicle, the Prius, on the basis of additional five test vehicles surrounding the status of laser radar, GPS antenna for the two test vehicle location, and can detect road signs line the camera.