Self-Driving Car Technology Is Getting Ready - But Will It Work In India?
Self-Driving car technology may make it to our four wheelers in near future as BMW and Continental have rolled up sleeves to make it work by 2025. The technology these companies are developing is called 'co-pilot' and it enables us to enter an era where the cars will drive themselves to the destinations while you eat pop-corn & listen to music. The companies aim to take the technology to road in the next few years. The automatic, self-driving cars will be tested on European freeways and German autobahns with a selected group of daredevil volunteers, but there's nothing to worry about as such.
Both BMW and Continental are experienced in the semi-automatic driving technologies. Continental has worked with leading luxury car makers like Mercedes on adaptive cruise control & emergency braking. BMW on the other hand has already demonstrated its capabilities with TrackTrainer - the car that rules the race tracks with high precision GPS sensors and high-resolution video cameras. The prototype car did much more than self-driving. It'd use biosensors to check the medical parameters of the driver and if it sensed an emergency (say heart attack or drowsiness), it'd take the control of the car from driver to itself. It'd even to emergency stop if required.
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The non-auto companies are also taking deep interest in self-driving car technologies. We've seen Google trying to develop its own self-driving car a few months ago. Audi too did a few tests in Nevada last year with their self-driving car and successfully did over 24,000 kilometres of automatic driving.
With the teaming up of BMW and Continental, we can expect some accelerated progress on this technological front. The aim of the JV between companies is to collaborate using their previous research and make the technology safer and ready for business.
The question I can't refrain from asking to our CEans - do you think self-driving cars will ever be successful in India? Having no one to blame and fight even for smallest collisions on the road ain't cool. Right?
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Both BMW and Continental are experienced in the semi-automatic driving technologies. Continental has worked with leading luxury car makers like Mercedes on adaptive cruise control & emergency braking. BMW on the other hand has already demonstrated its capabilities with TrackTrainer - the car that rules the race tracks with high precision GPS sensors and high-resolution video cameras. The prototype car did much more than self-driving. It'd use biosensors to check the medical parameters of the driver and if it sensed an emergency (say heart attack or drowsiness), it'd take the control of the car from driver to itself. It'd even to emergency stop if required.
The non-auto companies are also taking deep interest in self-driving car technologies. We've seen Google trying to develop its own self-driving car a few months ago. Audi too did a few tests in Nevada last year with their self-driving car and successfully did over 24,000 kilometres of automatic driving.
With the teaming up of BMW and Continental, we can expect some accelerated progress on this technological front. The aim of the JV between companies is to collaborate using their previous research and make the technology safer and ready for business.
The question I can't refrain from asking to our CEans - do you think self-driving cars will ever be successful in India? Having no one to blame and fight even for smallest collisions on the road ain't cool. Right?
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