Since the 1886s, a car has been a very important thing in everyone’s daily life, a car helps you get to distant places faster, not to mention the convenience that the car gives to its owner. In 1886 Carl Benz never thought that after almost 200 years we would have cars that drive alone, without the help of anything, you can be sleeping and the car. Elon Musk, but a lot of people don’t know that the first smart car was invented in 1977 first smart robotic vehicle created at the University of Tsukuba. Ernst Dickmanns and his team develop the VaMoRs vehicle, a Mercedes-Benz van equipped with various sensors. A very cool subject to talk about is how the world has been changing with these types of cars, helping people with disabilities who “couldn’t” have a car because they couldn’t drive and now with these cars these types of people can have.
Not everything in this life is perfect, we have the other side of the coin, what level of trust do you have in a robot? A few months ago there was an accident with a tesla model S, the auto pilot of the car failed and the driver was not paying attention and ended up crashing, we also have the problem of rain and storms, the rain can reduce the range and accuracy of laser-based Dealing sensors, obscuring the vision of on-board cameras and creating confusing reflections and glare.
In a bid to improve the performance of driverless technology in soggy conditions, which side of the coin are you on? To trust or not to trust robots? Is it 100% safe to drive cars like these? Or is it better to wait 10 years before we can make that decision?
“Tesla Model S” by cdorobek is marked with CC BY 2.0.