Have you ever dreamt of a car that would take you home just pushing a button? Yes, I know… especially those days when you are tired or when there is not a designated driver…but you!
Well, (more than) apparently, the autonomous car is coming. But can an autonomous car be a better driver than a human being? Can an autonomous car avoid accidents?
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Dr. Chris Gerdes, Director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford is helping to develop these autonomous cars, and he is also researching the brainwaves of professional drivers… people trained to push the car to the limit once and again. The general idea is to get information from a professional driver’s brain and how it works, and to apply that knowledge to the autonomous car design.
So, they connected a driver to some sensors, and sent him to the track in order to get data… What they found surprised them! (I am pretty sure, we, racing lovers, suspected something like this will happen someday…)
Of course, when we saw this TED video the first thing we started talking about was if we will watch a race with no drivers. General answer was a big NO. Second question in our minds, how this technology will (if) affect future contract negotiations…? OK, OK… We are going to fast here…and of course there is good use for this technology.
Form his Bio at TED, “Dr. Chris Gerdes , the Director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (conveniently acronymed CARS), and his team are developing a robotic race car, capable of driving at outrageous speeds while avoiding every possible accident. Gerdes’ research focuses on the development of driver assistance systems for collision avoidance, as well as on new combustion processes for engines.”
“Prior to teaching at Stanford, Gerdes was the project leader for vehicle dynamics at the Vehicle Systems Technology Center of Daimler-Benz Research and Technology North America. His work at Daimler focused on safety analysis.”
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