If you do n’t enjoy driving in the dark , Ford ’s late autonomous gondola trial will cheer you up . The company ’s announced that it ’s been successfully testing its elevator car at nighttime , a scenario that brings its own set of fairly obvious challenges for ego - driving vehicles .
Autonomous automobile use a wide cooking stove of sensors to navigate , including tv camera — which are obviously passably useless at night time . But they do also use lidar sensors , which — while theycan be fool by Baron Snow of Leicester and rain — work out well in the dark . Ford bear witness that to be event in this telecasting , shot at its Arizona proving terra firma . In these trial run , the car utilise lidar sensors to define its position on a prior function , allow it to navigate a psychometric test track without its headlight shift on .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc15Ox8UzEw
It ’s arguably a more telling - sounding achievement than it is in world : This is the kind of task that an self-directed car should be good at , while avoiding humans and random events on the road is a rather more difficult task . But it is a reminder of how self - driving machine will make journeys of the future a little more safe , have some rather weighty obligation — like peering into the darkness to make out obstacles — out of human manus .
[ FordviaRecode ]
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