It’s probably going to be within the next five years
Car technology is getting a lot of buzz of late, with the likes of Google and Apple both making their way into car technology, along with a host of other tech firms. IEEE Technical expert share insights on driverless car technology, safety issues and its penetration in the market
Please elaborate on the idea behind vehicle to vehicle technology and walk through some of the key technology that can make this happen.
The world as we know now is driven by wireless technology, so having vehicles able to talk to each other on the roadways is nothing new but the next logical progression that we have. There are cars already that act as hotspots and provide internet
access for passengers so vehicle to vehicle technology is just allowing two vehicles that are in the proximity to be able to communicate which is not difficult. We have short range personal networks like bluetooth, which are dedicated short range communication. Perhaps so the cars will communicate through this and when they hit one of the base stations, it comes back to communicate with other vehicles. The technology seems like it’s already there. It would require increasing the bandwidth and constantly improving the technology but it already does exist.
What are the challenges on the road to driverless car adoption?
We want the technologies to come forth but we need to be assured that the public is safe on the going be able to just program in where you’re going and it’ll just take you there without any human interaction.
What are the present perceptions about driverless cars?
People are relatively concerned about how the population accept the technology and stuff but there are the conservative views on the legal aspect and driver acceptance and so forth. And in this short 15 years, people actually have overcome them. As this kind technology penetrates to get into the market people’s view are going to change and manufactures will get more aggressive to get into the market place.
How will driverless cars interact with one another?
There’s a myriad of different ways you can do it. You can have some sort of haptic stimulation or you can have verbal command or some visual thing that would allow the driver to be alert if they need to take
over. Whatever gets developed, eventually needs to somehow be standardized across the board so that drivers are aware that that signal means for them to take over.
roads and therein lays the challenge. How are we going to do that? In addition, there is a mirrored of
other issues that we need to work our way through We kind of addressed the cyber security issue,
there’s the issue of privacy, data that is being collected, ownership of that data, there is also issues, more practical issues, insurance for instance and certainly liability, Brian’s favorite topic. All of those are being discussed, there being vetted and will come out with a set of regulations at some point in time but we have to work our way through these issues.
Throw light on the Evolution of Driverless Cars.
One starts with the kinds of technologies we see today, both for driver assistance and for driver safety and those systems become increasingly capable, they do more and more vis-a-vis to human driver until eventually the line between what the human is doing and the automated driving system is doing is pretty unclear and then we get to the fully self-driving car.
Comment on the penetration of driverless cars into the market
More advanced technologies are going to start coming out in the next few years, it’s going to be exciting. We will see automated vehicles in our lifetime; we absolutely are going to be seeing driverless vehicles. It’s probably going to be within the next five years even. We are going to see manufacturers who are selling it. Whether it’s going to be driverless 100 percent of the time, no matter what the conditions are and based on how many vehicles are on the road maybe not completely in that respect but for most people who commute on freeways that get to work each day, you’re going to be able to get into your car in the 5-10 years, you’re
