(Original title: Next step in driverless cars: Boot the driver)
Netease Technology News January 11 news, according to the "USA Today" website reported that automotive companies and technology companies are rushing to achieve a completely unmanned driverless car, which may be seen as soon as this year.
Many companies have tested small, self-driving car fleets on roads and city streets, but so far almost all of these vehicles are equipped with test drivers or engineers to prevent accidents and they are ready to take over the steering wheel.
One of the hottest topics at CES (International Consumer Electronics Show) this week is when companies will drive so-called safe drivers out of their self-driving cars.
A Toyota executive explained that the company’s goal is to promptly display the true sense of driverless cars before the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics — driverless cars without human nanny.
General Motors said that as part of a taxi service, it plans to launch a fleet of Chevrolet Bolt unmanned electric vehicles in specific urban areas, far less than the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Michael Ableson, GM’s vice president of global strategy, said in a seminar on driverless cars on Monday that the company still plans to put these greatly improved Bolts vehicles into commercial operation sometime in 2019.
Gill Pratt, president of the Toyota Research Institute, told reporters that their company's future car - a true self-driving car - will be considered "Level 4" automation.
Under the widely followed National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) classification system, Level 4 autonomous vehicles can be driven automatically most of the time, but still have steering wheels and pedals for manual driving in harsh conditions or Tricky manipulation.
In contrast, Cadillac's new Super Cruise feature and Tesla's "autopilot" autopilot mode are considered Level 2 automation and can be manually driven in many situations, such as on highways in good weather conditions.
Platt said, "Know that if you test a Level 4 car with security personnel in the car, it is not really a Level 4 test, but a Level 2 test."
Toyota did not specifically talk about what type of self-driving car it wanted to have before 2020, nor did it say whether the vehicle would be ready for production by then.
Toyota is the main sponsor of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, so its driverless cars may be used to carry people and shuttle between sports venues, just like the BMW unmanned car that was modified by Aptiv (formerly Delphi). Zhou is carrying CES attendees between the exhibition hall and various places in Las Vegas.
General Motors plans to launch more than 300 Bolt unmanned cars, the exact size of the team has not been announced. In the cities it will enter, those vehicles will operate within a specific geographic area.
Albertson said that driverless cars do not have safe driver care, "is a big step forward."
At the opening of the 2018 Korean Olympic Winter Games next month, Waymo, owned by Google, will let its Chrysler Pacifica unmanned car team carry passengers on the road.
Waymo has made Pacifica without any safety drivers drive on the road in the Phoenix area. In November last year, Waymo announced that local passenger services using driverless cars will be launched in the coming months. A spokesman for the company said on Monday that the project is still on schedule.
Ford, its goal is still to begin production of Level 4 unmanned cars in 2021. The company’s chief executive, Jim Hackett, will deliver a keynote speech at CES and expects to announce more information about the auto-driving car business strategy.
Toyota's Pratt warned in an interview with reporters that do not pay too much attention to which level of automation each company achieves. The highest level of automation is Level 5, which can automatically drive at any time, and may not even require a steering wheel.
Albertson said, "I think people should talk more about what the self-driving car can handle. How much unpredictable it can handle? For example, can it respond to other vehicles suddenly turning left?"
“In the face of the traffic congestion that needs to be negotiated with human-driven vehicles, can it cope? This is a very difficult task for cars. I think we all have a lot of work to do,†he said. (Lebang)
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