"The primary goal of GM's autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle development is safety, " Capp said.
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Each car receives a special red license plate emblazoned with the infinity sign and the letters AU, for autonomous vehicle.
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"We are introducing autonomous vehicle technology to improve people's lives by making driving safer, more enjoyable, and more efficient, " the company said.
He eventually found his way to Stanford, leading the university team's entry in the 2005 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) Grand Challenge to create an autonomous vehicle that could navigate 132 miles through a desert.
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Audi unveiled its new futuristic LED headlights, which the company claims will increase visibility and reduce the chances of a collision and Lexus unveiled a new high-tech autonomous vehicle that could pave the way towards self-driving cars.
For those who think we should only focus our effort in developing technologies for driverless cars, my thought is that even if you ride in an autonomous vehicle, you will want to -- and sometimes have to -- switch to "manual mode" from time to time.
The focus of autonomous vehicle research is on developing intelligent vehicles, or artificial intelligence for cars in some sense, while the focus of the blind driver challenge vehicle is developing methods to convey a vast amount of information to the driver through nonvisual means, fast enough and accurately enough for safe driving.
There are plenty of people in industry and the military who want to solve the autonomous-vehicle problem, says Ms Walker, and they will be watching the race closely.
The company deployed the sonar on its torpedo-like Bluefin-21 autonomous underwater vehicle and then used a video-equipped remotely operated vehicle owned by Submersible Systems Inc. to inspect any promising radar targets.
With this in mind Dr Hover and Mr Englot, along with a team of colleagues, used a robot known as the Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (HAUV), which was developed at MIT and has since been commercialised by a company called Bluefin Robotics.
But oddly enough, no automaker yet has public plans to fit such a fully autonomous system to a showroom vehicle.
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Important roles for Europe include assembling the rover on its side of the Atlantic and using a British-designed autonomous navigation system when the vehicle is on Mars.
By adding in wireless communication, the vehicles in the platoon "mimic" the lead vehicle using Ricardo autonomous control - accelerating, braking and turning in exactly the same way as the leader.
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Without driving one, 37% of drivers aged 18 to 37 would definitely or probably buy a vehicle capable of fully autonomous driving, according to a JD Power research survey.
Continental's highly automated vehicle, however, is an intermediate step toward autonomous driving.
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The sensors we use for the blind driver challenge vehicle are almost identical to the ones we use for autonomous vehicles, and we have used for this project many of the technologies we have developed for our autonomous cars for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
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