The driverless car with its own sense of direction

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2925, 2013, pág. 23
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hodson introduces a geolocation system. If driverless cars are going to navigate safely, they need to know exactly where they are all the time--and if they rely on GPS they are likely to lose their bearings every time they enter a tunnel, go past a skyscraper or drive under a bridge. Now a new system can pin down the location of a travelling car to within 3 metres without the aid of GPS--just by looking around. The geolocation system, designed by Marcus Brubaker and colleagues at the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago, uses two simple cameras mounted on the car that survey its surroundings as the vehicle drives along.