Imagine sitting inside your car, sipping a cup of tea and reading the morning newspaper, while your car drives you to your office...all by itself without any human interference. Driverless or self driving cars are already here being tested by companies round the world.
The car would have the capability to drive it's passenger by automatic means through pre-set commands or self-instructional inputs. Technology pundits consider them as a paradigm shift in the human auto-mobile relationship. When fully operational, they are set to become the game-changer, revolutionising the way we drive and commute. Within just a few years, these autonomous cars have become a reality, emerging out of the realms of science fiction. It is now predicted that the fully automatic or self driving vehicles will hit the market between 2020 and 2025.
Driverless cars are based on a very simple concept. The automobiles run either on their own with preset commands or with the partial intervention of a person sitting inside. A self driving car, also called a driverless car or autonomous car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing it's environment and navigating without human input and hence designed to travel between destinations without a human operator or driver.
While it may seem that the technology emerged all of a sudden, the path of self-driving vehicles has taken a lot longer time than most of us think. The journey began in 1925 when Francis Houdina demonstrated the first radio controlled car driving through the streets of Manhattan in the USA. Today, major giants round the world, including Google, Honda, General Motors and many other car manufacturers have jumped on to the bandwagon.
The car would have the capability to drive it's passenger by automatic means through pre-set commands or self-instructional inputs. Technology pundits consider them as a paradigm shift in the human auto-mobile relationship. When fully operational, they are set to become the game-changer, revolutionising the way we drive and commute. Within just a few years, these autonomous cars have become a reality, emerging out of the realms of science fiction. It is now predicted that the fully automatic or self driving vehicles will hit the market between 2020 and 2025.
Driverless cars are based on a very simple concept. The automobiles run either on their own with preset commands or with the partial intervention of a person sitting inside. A self driving car, also called a driverless car or autonomous car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing it's environment and navigating without human input and hence designed to travel between destinations without a human operator or driver.
While it may seem that the technology emerged all of a sudden, the path of self-driving vehicles has taken a lot longer time than most of us think. The journey began in 1925 when Francis Houdina demonstrated the first radio controlled car driving through the streets of Manhattan in the USA. Today, major giants round the world, including Google, Honda, General Motors and many other car manufacturers have jumped on to the bandwagon.
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