Self Driving Cars Research Paper

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Imagine a world where you can get into a car, push a button, and go where ever you want to go without the hassle of driving. Several car companies, such as Tesla and Honda, have been rumoring about self-driving cars (also known as autonomous cars). The real question people ask is how do they work and when are they coming out? These self-driving cars work by including various sensors and cameras built into the chassis of the vehicle. The vehicle also includes a Global Positioning Unit (GPS), an Internal Navigation System and a laser rangefinder. A laser rangefinder is the spinning part on the top of most self driving cars that tells the car how far away something is to the car. Laser rangefinders emits laser beams that then bounces off objects.
To tell where the car is, the car uses positional information from the GPS and the Internal Navigation system to restrict itself to a particular place, meaning is gets a baseline reading of where the car is in the world using GPS like your phone would. Then the car reads the information from the sensors to refine its position. After that, the car then gathers all of that information and creates a digital image of the environment around the car. This image includes all still and moving objects in its vicinity. This could range from buildings, traffic lights, stop signs, other cars, cyclists, and pedestrians. Also, the blinker of the other cars in its range. All of the map making is handled by the control system, along with many other tasks. The control system is computer in the car that is able to make all of the intelligent decisions like where to turn, to stop if there is a car in front of it or if it's at a stoplight and the light is red, it will stop on the line. This computer must know everything that is around that car and also everything that is going on around that car. For example, a car pulled up to a stop sign next to a self-driving car. The computer in the self-driving car must be able to see the car pulling up and it must know when it stopped. It must also know how far away the car is to the side of it. Self-driving cars also has a model to
Because of that, self-driving cars will not be released this year, though it depends on the company. Several different car manufacturers have had multiple release dates. From Waymo, a company working with Google, saying their self-driving car will be released in 2018, to Nissan saying that their self-driving cars will be available by 2020. Tesla’s CEO is now promising by the end of 2017, he will have a Tesla that will be able to drive itself from Los Angeles to New York City, no human assistance needed. Ford is also now saying that its company will have a selection of Self-driving cars by 2021.
In conclusion, Self-driving cars are a very sophisticated project. Because of that, people ask how do they work and when are they officially being released? Now that car manufactures have developed the technology, different companies are rumoring about self-driving cars. They are coming soon, but sooner that you

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