Driverless cars are on the cusp of widespread production. The technology exists, test trials are routinely run, and the success rates are higher than ever. Only a few factors (which, admittedly, are fairly large) are preventing fully scalable prototypes from entering the consumer market. Let’s explore some of them. High …
Read More »Mercedes driverless cars to save driver instead of pedestrians in crash
Mercedes’ self-driving cars will be programmed to save the driver, not the person or people they hit in an accident, according to the company’s manager of driverless car safety, Christoph von Hugo. Speaking to Car and Driver in the U.S., Mr von Hugo said that’s the design decision behind the …
Read More »UK government approves driverless vehicle public road trials
Autonomous vehicles are one step closer to reality in the UK, with the British government giving the green light for driverless car testing on public roads by the end of 2013. So far, driverless cars, or autonomous vehicles, have only been tested on private land, where the car is controlled …
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