Everybody’s working on self-driving cars! Google, Ford, Volvo and now even the ultimate driving machine, BMW, is trying their hand at hands free driving. BMW’s self-autonomous system uses four types of sensors, radar, cameras, laser scanners and ultrasound distance sensors and can even change lanes to zoom past a slowpoke car. BMW. The ultimate lazy-driving machine.
The BMW team created special algorithms to handle every situation and uses the car’s position in pre-mapped highways to navigate and the location of other cars to avoid. It’s cruise control on mother freaking steroids, basically. The coolest part about the ConnectedDrive Connect system is that if the car feels its going too slow, it’ll move over to an open lane, speed up, pass the slow car and move back into the original lane.
Blake
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 7:12 PMI wonder how a bunch of these would go next to each other, like whether all their ultrasonic signals would horribly interfere with each other and such.
Robercollums
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 8:46 PMLots of companies have been making cars that drive themselves for years, trouble is they’re all shit and crash into things like those cars that ‘reverse themselves’ when in all actuality they’re inaccurate as fuck
Azza
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 10:09 AMI wonder how close we actually are for when this will become practical.