Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Alphabet creates a division on issues of Autonomous drive – Waymo – Onet.pl

Google conducts research on samosterującymi cars from seven years. At this time, the company tests their cars, in particular in urban traffic conditions. For a long time, the American group was the leader in this technology, however, for some time measures with growing competition, e.g. by companies from the automotive industry and other technology giants such as Uber and Apple.

today, the work on Autonomous vehicle was conducted by the Department of scientific and Google X. according to the project Manager samonawigujących machines John Krafcika Waymo will be “a new step in mobility”. He added that the company will work within the group, however, will enjoy complete independence.

“Is a sign of maturity of our technology. (…) We imagine a situation in which our solutions to Autonomous driving find application in many areas,” said Krafcik.

In may, the car maker Fiat Chrysler (FCA) announced that it wants along with Google to introduce Autonomous driving technology minivans, produced by FCA. Due to the fact that Fiat Chrysler should not lead their own research on the technology of self-driving, and he can use the experience of Google. This will automatically reduce the cost of introducing the technology into mass production car.

As it reminded Google, their Autonomous cars have driven to date, more than 3 million kilometers. Ordeal found checking vehicles in complex traffic situations. Currently, the cars are tested on four streets of American cities. In cooperation with the FCA group wants to double the fleet of cars investigated by adding 100 to the current Chrysler minivans. This will help in the implementation of the Google – zero-involvement in the process of driving a car.

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