Artificial Intelligence has already weaved its way into many
of the technologies that humans are using in their everyday life. AI
technologies are being improved everyday influencing our everyday life in a
better way. For most of us, driverless cars will be one of the first domains
where we will be able to check if it is good decision to trust AI systems.
Every day people around the world are in traffic jams, get
into car accidents, and this is one of the problems over which people are already
finding a solution. One of these solutions is a driverless AI car. Driverless
cars is the next generation technology that can help us to automate traffic,
make driving safer, better and better every year.
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A driverless (sometimes called a self-driving car, an
automated car or an autonomous vehicle)
is a robotic vehicle that is designed to travel from A to B without a human
interaction. Nowadays a lot of big international companies are developing
driverless cars (Audi, BMW, Ford, Google, General Motors, Volkswagen and Volvo).
Proponents of driverless cars are saying that they would like to eliminate
accidents caused by driver mistakes, which is currently the cause of almost all
traffic accidents. Greater precision of an automatic system could improve
traffic flow, drastically increase highway capacity and lower or even
absolutely eliminate traffic jams. Finally, the systems would allow commuters
to make whatever they wish while travelling.
To make a car fully autonomous engineers have made a 5 level
study model according to which in those five steps they will reach the goal of
fully automated car driving. Driverless cars is a technology that will help us
prevent a lot of current problems.
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We are still far from fully automated
driverless car system, due to two often-talked up sensors of this
technology: lidar and cameras.
Lidar doesn’t see through some
objects such as snow, steam coming off a manhole. Cameras can be fooled by
long-distance conditions and glares.
First of all, the sensors need to get
better. Secondly, cars have to be taught well until they will be able to
predict and understand complex web interactions going on the road.
For example:
· Is the human with one arm up a police
officer, in which case the gesture would quash a green-means-go rule, or
someone pretending to be a traffic cop?
· Is the person on a unicycle doing a
stunt, or ready to move forward?
· Will the pedestrian at the corner
obey walk/don’t walk signs?
Questions:
1) Do you trust AI driverless car
technology?
2) Would you like to see driverless cars on our roads in the nearest years?
Are you interested in developing such
complicated automated systems as the driverless car?Sources:
Comments
I would like to see Gal Gadot, but driverless car would be ok.
I'm not interested in that field, but I think that I will study more on AI in near future.
On the other hand, if the technology gets really advanced, I guess it's not a bad idea to replace all the cars of people, who found their licences in a cereal box with autonomous ones, even though I don't think it will happen very soon.
I think it doesn't matter if I would like to see those cars - they will appear sooner or later. But I hope it will be later.
In some moments, AI doesn't know what should do and it's dangerous for drivers.
Will be cool if AI will feel and think how people, but this will never happen.
I prefer to drive and don't use any technology or AI.
As I said in the comment for the similar last week's presentation, I don't trust AI-cars, not yet. Technologies don't stand still, so it's possible that such cars will appear and become something ordinary in several few years.
And, of course, I would like to see self-controlled cars on the roads, and even buy one :)
2. 2) Would you like to see driverless cars on our roads in the nearest years?
Of course I would like driverless cars to appear in the nearest future as it will be a huge advance in people’s transportation. I can only hope that it will not cause normal cars to be banned completely as I love driving a car.
3. I would be interested in being involved into development of autonomous cars as I would enjoy working on algorithms which are facing challenges of accident avoidance and can contribute to reduction of traffic jams.
I wouldn't like to see such cars in the near future. I need to know that their functioning is absolutely perfect, before I'd be okay with driving anywhere near to them. Only time will prove if the technology is already nearly perfect or still needs a lot of improvements.
I would love to work in such sophisticated projects. I find everything related to the AI technology really interesting as it makes our world better to live in.
I believe that in the future years will be driverless technology that almost everybody will trust, now it is only the beginning of that technology.
Would you like to see driverless cars on our roads in the nearest years?
Of course yes, I also will want one of those. Already there are more and more cars that have sensors intended to autonomous car. Maybe they already collect data, processing and learning from drivers.
Are you interested in developing such complicated automated systems as the driverless car?
Of course, that would be amazing.
Seeing driverless cars on our roads could be interesting.
If all moving cars use such technology, I think that after previous positive tests I would trust them. The amount of technology that is currently used in cars is enormous. Each car is packed with technology and sensors. I believe that such cars will come into effect soon.
Completly not. It would be a literally killer technology when something that is not implemented yet happens on the road.
2) Would you like to see driverless cars on our roads in the nearest years?
Yes but only in the closed enviroment - where all cars are automated.
Would I like to see driverless cars on our roads in the nearest years? Of course I would like! I hope that some day in the nearest future I would have to drive only when I feel like it, and when I’m tired my car can drive me.
On the one hand, I think it is a great idea and very developmental. On the other hand, technology can also fail. This doesn't convince me enough to start using it and depending on it my or somebody's life. I believe that the process of creating such cars is very interesting and definitely is a great achievement for engineers and scientists. It is good that humanity is doing more and more, but at the moment I don't want to such cars to appear on the streets.
Yes, I would like to see driverless cars on our roads. However, I have one condition. This technology must be safe.
But I must admit, that the idea is interesting and it was obvious that one day it's gonna happen. For now I prefer to drive myself.
As I mentioned above, I would like to see driverless cars on our roads in 5 years, but I think people aren't mentally ready for this. Also, I guess, big manufacturers are not ready for the big demand. So, more likely we will see driverless cars on our roads in 10 years or later.
I am interested in developing driverless car, because I am not a fan of cars generally.
it would be intersting experience but i am not sure it will decrease amount of road accidents
when this technology will be tested enough, I think that buying such a car will be good investment not only for the customer,
but for us all. The more driverless cars there are, the more synchronization will be on the roads. It means smaller number of car accidents. In addition, if the cars equipped with AI conquers the world, lights in cars will be unusable. This would surely bring us some energy benefit.
I am mainly interested in this theme. However I like cars with a traditional clutch and steering wheel, I realize that
that the disappearance of such cars is a matter of time. That's why I try not to waste time and be up to date.
2) Yes, I would like to experience being driven by an AI. Besides few disadvantages of driverless cars we can surely trust in the technological development until everything is under the human control. Personally I’m more into apps for mobile devices, but this new technology seems very exciting and maybe one day I’ll focus more on it.
I strongly believe that if we all had selfdriving cars there would be much less, if not at all accidents on roads...
Question is would we give up "control" and fun coming from being a driver for our safety?
I've heard about driverless cars testing and the fact that all the accidents were caused by humans, not autonomous cars. I wouldn't want to own an autonomous car but I'd like to own a car that "helps" a driver - for example when it "sees" you closing your eyes for more time than usual it alarms you. I think we should develop such complicated automated systems, but I wouldn't like to do it.
I would like to have steering wheel just in case and I would like to have a driver behind it. But maybe some day I will change my opinion :)