The Development Of A Driverless Car

* Car child lock – this stops a child from falling out of a car if they should open the door

Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS) is a combination of vehicle hardware and software that work together to maintain steering control and vehicle stability during hard braking. Initially developed as a special option for topof-the-line models, today’s ABS units are compact, easy to service, inexpensive and widely available. Now every major automotive manufacturer offers some form of ABS vehicle control that provides safe, maximum braking under all weather conditions and road surfaces.

A driverless, or autonomous, car is a car that is able to operate and drive itself without the need of human interaction. Autonomous cars are able to navigate independently by using systems like GPS, radar and are able to sense the environment around the car by using sensors. Many major car companies, including Ford, General Motors, Audi, BMW and Volvo, have begun testing autonomous car systems. General Motors predict they could have a fully autonomous car on the road as soon as 2018[1]. There are many advantages to autonomous cars such as fewer traffic collisions, reduced congestion, relieves the occupants of navigation duties so they are free to do other things, and autonomous cars can be used by anyone even if they have a disability

“Our Driverless Future” is an article narrated in the third person point of view. In this article, Halpern expresses the many concerns with autonomous vehicles that will be created and used in the near future. She begins by stating that semiautonomous cars equipped with new technologies and safety features, such as “autopilot” mode, actually focus the driver’s attention to many areas but the road. It is already seen that due to these features, there is an increase in collisions and a lack of safety on the road. Therefore, Google and other companies proposed the idea of self-driving vehicles that eliminate split responsibility between the driver and the car. Although this mobility revolution might sound appealing to some people, especially young

Heads up Display, it is a very useful feature that can not be found normally on all cars. The display is a projector that is faced to your windshield and it has a picture of your navigation system and your speed so you don't have to look down all the time to check your speed and navigation. Lane keeping assist is a feature that keeps your car in the lanes, if your car leans over off the lane to the other lane your car will automatically steer itself to the opposite direction and keep the vehicle in its lane and preventing a collision. Active Cruise Control is a feature where you can set a speed for your vehicle to go with out you using pressure on the gas pedal. The feature also detects the cars in front of your car and adjusts the speed if the vehicle in front gets too close or slows down. Lane keeping assist is a logo on your side mirrors that light up when some one is on your blind spot, it also helps you change lanes easily. Tire pressure monitor is a monitor that is always active and it checks your tire pressure if you need more air or not. Forward Collision warning is a warning that comes up on your dashboard if a car is too close to you and you have to be careful of not.

From the story we can understand is that a driverless car can be the wonderful future innovation for all of us because it has the high possibility to change our daily life.

In the recent years, the United States government has been enforcing stricter mandates on auto manufacturers to create safer vehicles, and on construction companies to create safer roadways. Matthew Jensen wrote a dissertation for the Graduate School of Clemson University titled, A Methodology for the Analysis of In-vehicle Operating Data and Design of Intelligent Vehicle Systems for Improved Automotive Safety. In his abstract, Jensen evaluated the future of vehicle manufacturing and traffic-related incidents. Of course, every year more vehicles are manufactured, which in theory means the number of miles driven in vehicles increases. He points out how the World Health Organization (WHO) found that automobile crashes was the ninth

The addition of the Collision Mitigation Braking System™, standard on all but two of the models, makes sure that you stop by delivering brake pressure if sensors detect an obstacle in your path like another car.

Adaptive cruise control. We’ve all heard of cruise control, set you speed limit and voila your car maintains that speed, very useful on long trips. But what about adaptive? well as the word suggests, it adapts but to the speeds of the car in front of you and accelerate and decelerate accordingly, in some cases it can steer. Ever heard of Tesla (PICTURE TESLA P100D) we’ve all heard about it, a fully electric car and as fast as Lamborghinis and Ferraris. And you may have also heard that it basically drives by itself, all thanks to adaptive cruise control. This system is made up of infrared radars and cameras mounted either in front of the grill or on the rear-view mirror or

In recent discussions of growing technology, a controversial issue has been whether we are ready for the advancements of driverless vehicles. On the one hand, some argue that these advancements have already proven that we are ready. On the other hand, however, others argue that we need to have more experience with the technology before we can be ready. In sum, then, the issue is are we ready or not for driver-less cars. While others think that driverless vehicles can’t be trusted yet without a commission to help lawmakers with regulating the vehicles and government officials that know more about this technology to better watch over it, I believe that we are ready for this new evolving automobile because driverless vehicles already has too much potential beginning with its self-automated breaking system and warnings.

Your future has arrived, are you ready? Twenty years ago if you had told somebody that driverless vehicles would be driving us around our cities and on our highways, they would have smiled and said only in the movies. Now it is not so farfetched. Driverless cars are fast becoming reality. Just as computers did, driverless cars will change the way we live. And like any other innovation, it would free up time for more creative thinking. In recent years, we have seen small improvements to our cars, making them more automated. Bluetooth and GPS play a big role while driving our cars. GPS will navigate for us without using a map, and Bluetooth allows us to go hands free to concentrate on driving. So, is a fully autonomous car good or

a skid. But it is firm, continuous brake pressure that is required to activate anti-locks, which

It’s a dark rainy night. You and your family are coming home from a late night family party. As a car is coming through an intersection another car cut in front of it. The driver decides to hit the brakes so you can avoid the car, but as he presses the brakes, the car loses control on the slick wet road. He is not able to gain control and at that point he has endangered the lives of himself and many others on the road. This is just one example of the many types of things that occur in our streets everyday. All that would have been needed to avoid this situation would have been a traction control system in his car, which would have detected that the car was skidding and would have applied the brakes to

The reason for the development of anti-lock braking system is very simple. Under braking, if one or more of a vehicle’s wheels lock then this has a number of consequences: a) braking distance increases, b) steering control is lost, and c) tire wear will be uncommon. The tangible outcome is that an accident is more likely to occur. The application of brakes creates a force that impedes a vehicles motion by applying a force in the opposite direction. During severe braking scenarios, a point is obtained in which the tangential velocity of the tire surface and the velocity on road surface are not the same such that an optimal slip which corresponds to the maximum friction is obtained. The ABS controller must deal with the brake dynamics and the wheel dynamics as a whole plant.

When a car is being made it must follow three principles of safety “1. The impact from a collision is absorbed gradually by controlled deformation of the outer parts of the car. 2.The passenger area is kept intact as long as possible. 3. The interior is designed to reduce the risk of incident”. Active safety features are added to cars to reduce possible injuries, some of those features include braking systems, aerodynamic stability and bad weather equipment. Other features such as head restraints, bumpers, and auto aligning steering wheels help the driver stay