Car companies and tech companies such as Google are each racing to produce the self-driving car and the driverless technology is catching on pretty quick. Even appliance giant Samsung recently bought Harman International Industries, which will pivot towards the autonomous car concept. Soon, the road will be filled with driverless cars, competing with most conventional cars and be even safer than the driven ones.
How would driverless cars be safer, you say? Well, it all comes down to the sensors. While humans are limited to the five senses, an autonomous car will have multiple sensors capable of ensuring occupant safety better than a human-driven car. A good example is Google's self-driving car concept. It has sensors, radars, lasers and cameras to detect objects coming from every direction.
Top that with a computer that can process data several times faster than the human brain and you get an idea of how safe a driverless car would be. For Samsung, the company wants to use some of its tech to build smart systems that can tell a driver when their vehicle is due for service, when they need to be charged and where the closest charging point is, plus find parking spaces, according to ITPRO.
The supercomputer itself, the brain of the driverless car, will be fitted with a very powerful microchip specifically designed to collate the data fed into it and make potentially lifesaving decisions. It's no small task that a company called Nvidia is well aware of.
The size of a license plate, it uses machine learning where the car is driven on all known roads and streets under all driving conditions, and identifying all objects around it plus being fed data manually to perfect its learning ability. "In the brain of the car, it looks like a video game. We are essentially recreating the world in a virtual 3D space," Danny Shapiro, senior director of Nvidia's automotive business unit, told Business Insider.
It may sound like science fiction, but the basics are exactly how humans learn when learning how to drive for the first time. Of course, a lot of factors still have to be considered, like when to stop if the door is slightly ajar, which may confuse the computer if somebody wants to get in or out or it's just not being closed properly. Given time, the technology will eventually be perfected. One thing is certain: Driverless cars will be a lot safer than human drivers.
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