How Software Will Teach Your Car to Drive Itself

Jul 25
08:41

2016

mandycheung

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Plenty of companies are making self-driving cars that use sensors or android car gps to find their way in the world. But a new self-driving car company has developed technology that will teach a car how to drive and play android car dvd player itself. It learns like a pet would, through repetition.

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Oxbotica,How Software Will Teach Your Car to Drive Itself Articles an offshoot of the University of Oxford in the U.K., made the software that acquires data on your driving by vauxhall sat nav routes over time. Ingmar Posner, an associate professor at Oxford and one of Oxbotica's cofounders, told MIT Technology Review:

 

"When you buy your autonomous car is settled in android car dvd or android 2 din car stereo and drive off the (lot), it will know nothing. But at some point it will decide that it knows where it is, that its perception system has been trained by the way you've been driving, and it can then offer autonomy."

Oxbotica's software, which it calls Seleniun, could be installed in current cars. Again, this is not an entirely new idea: Otto, a company based out of Silicon Valley, is focused on added self-driving capabilities to big rigs. But Oxbotica sees an expanded market, focusing on everything from warehouse forklifts to buses.

 

Selenium's tech lets the vehicles find its location and recognize what's going on around it , using a combination of GPS, Opel navi ,wheel odometry, LIDAR, and other systems. That flexibility will also apply to the car's driving conditions: if you "take it out in the snow and it's not seen it before, it keeps the ideas of snowy-ness around for the next time," says Paul Newman, another professor at the University of Oxford and cofounder.

 

Now that Oxbotica has left academia, the next step is the real world. Selenium's getting tested out in the Greenwich Automated Transport Environment, or GATEway, which is "conducting a number of different trials to understand how people respond to, engage with and accept automated vehicles with built-in android car dvd." Showing off its customizable nature, Oxbotica is also working on controlling two-seater "pods" for the UK's Low-carbon Urban Transport Zone. The company has offered vague suggestions about working with car manufacturers, but there hasn't been anything definitive yet about taking Selenium mainstream.