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The Test Driven Google Car – It’s a Robot, An Auto Driver

March 10, 2011 by Raj Agrawal 9 Comments

UPCOMING TECHNOLOGY – Google’s constant attempts to spread it’s arms above it’s search engine and advertisement placements has brought in an experimental robot car that drives all by itself (under the supervision of a human safety driver), just in case the car needs help. Google’s blog said that it all works with the help of video cameras, radar sensors and a laser range finder to “see” other traffic, as well as detailed maps collected by their manually driven vehicles to navigate the road ahead.’ The car drives quite well on it’s own.

google auto car
Goole Auto Car

The concept of autonomous cars is not new. It as been in talks and research since quite some time. The recent conference at TED gave the attendees an opportunity to experience Google’s autonomous car first hand.

The inside view of the car

The ‘Auto driving’ demonstration

Google is hard focused on road safety and minimizing carbon emissions with their “in research” autonomous car. There is yet much time to experience the actual implementation of such vehicles because building a robot, in such case, the Google car, needs steep programming complexity and stability, teaching the machine to aptly understand the physics of motion and sensibility. This is why the Google car isn’t unmanned yet.

Filed Under: Consumer Technology Tagged With: google

About Raj Agrawal

A professional Mobile Software Engineer by profession, an M.C.A and M.C.P by qualification. A guitar hobbyist and an appreciator of Indian classical, folk, metal and baroque music.

Comments

  1. Chirag says

    March 12, 2011 at 6:39 PM

    Google always does innovative things in the right places….good luck with this project as well 😀

    Reply
    • Raj Agrawal says

      March 12, 2011 at 9:56 PM

      Indeed. Google is very calculative with their actions, no wonder they hire the best people!

      Reply
  2. ajit shelar BARAMATI says

    March 17, 2011 at 7:24 PM

    google car is the very important technology for safaty driving which is current issue. I wishes to google to complete this . Thanks
    raj sir to write such.

    Reply
    • Raj Agrawal says

      April 2, 2011 at 7:49 PM

      You are very welcome Ajit.

      Reply
  3. mas raden says

    March 19, 2011 at 8:26 PM

    very nice technology of google car. . .
    thanks for sharing

    Reply
    • Raj Agrawal says

      April 2, 2011 at 7:50 PM

      😉

      Reply
  4. Chris says

    March 21, 2011 at 12:29 PM

    Amazing. Simply Superb. What a car it is. I just see such type of car in movies only.

    Reply
    • Raj Agrawal says

      April 2, 2011 at 7:51 PM

      Agreed. After all it’s a Google product!

      Reply
  5. Antoni says

    April 4, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    Simple… i love google!!!!!

    Reply

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