It appears that the driverless cars are becoming a hot commodity! Sadly, it appears that the US is lagging behind China and Japan dramatically. But, it appears that many of the designs are following the Drone methodology instead, letting the vehicles be piloted by a human \u201cin the loop.\u201d \u201cOur idea is not that a car should totally replace the driver, but that it will give the driver freedom,\u201d Yu Kai, Baidu\u2019s top AI researcher, told the South China Morning Post. (Wan, A. and Nam, W, 4\/20\/2015) \u201cSo the car is intelligent enough to operate by itself, like a horse, and make decisions depending on different road situations.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
That equine analogy has been used before, notably by design guru\u00a0Don Norman in a keynote speech last summer.\u00a0(Ross, 12\/30\/2014) \u201cLoose reins: the horse is in control and takes you home. Tight reins are to force the horse to do things that are uncomfortable\u2014but not dangerous.\u201d\u00a0 After a hundred years of automotive progress, we\u2019re still measuring the cars in relation to horses! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Baidu’s self-driving car project is on track, if you\u2019ll pardon my pun, to hit Beijing highways by end of the year, just as the company\u2019s CEO had suggested.<\/p>\n
References
\nRoss, P. (12\/30\/2014). Europe\u2019s Smart Highway will Shepherd Cars from rotterdam to vienna. IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved from http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/transportation\/advanced-cars\/europes-smart-highway-will-shepherd-cars-from-rotterdam-to-vienna<\/p>\n
Wan, A. and Nan, W. (4\/20\/2015). Baidu\u2019s Yu Kai talks autonomous cars, artificial intelligence and the future of search. South China Morning Post. Retrieved from http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/article\/1767799\/baidus-yu-kai-talks-autonomous-cars-artificial-intelligence-and-future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It appears that the driverless cars are becoming a hot commodity! Sadly, it appears that the US is lagging behind China and Japan dramatically. But, it appears that many of the designs are following the Drone methodology instead, letting the vehicles be piloted by a human \u201cin the loop.\u201d \u201cOur idea is not that a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureoftesting.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureoftesting.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureoftesting.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureoftesting.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureoftesting.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/futureoftesting.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/futureoftesting.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureoftesting.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureoftesting.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureoftesting.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}