Is There Room for Self-driving Cars in Luxury Motoring"Â
Fully autonomous cars are on their way to becoming a reality in our world, but does being self-driving qualify as being luxury"
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The Tesla Model S. Photo: Tesla.
The word ?automobile? entered the English lexicon from French in the late 18th century, a compound of the Ancient Greek autós (?????) which means “self” and the Latin mobilis which means ?movable?. Originally referencing how manmade vehicles transitioned from relying on external sources of power, such as horses, to being powered by their own engines, it seems ironic now that the word foreshadowed in itself the advent of truly ?self-driving? vehicles.
Self-driving vehicles are becoming more and more of a reality in the automobile industry today. To qualify as fully autonomous, a self-driving vehicle must be able to both chart a path from point A to B and navigate the route by itself safely, free from human intervention. Currently, these works-in-progress rely on a combination of sensors which read the external environment (i.e. cameras, radar, lidar etc.) and artificial intelligence (AI) to make sense of the feedback to do so.
Companies developing self-driving cars range from Audi to Google, though Google’s Waymo in partnership with Lyft has already launched their own fully autonomous commercial ride-sharing service, Waymo One. The service is ongoing testing but is currently availabl...
The post Is There Room for Self-driving Cars in Luxury Motoring"Â appeared first on LUXUO.
The Tesla Model S. Photo: Tesla.
The word ?automobile? entered the English lexicon from French in the late 18th century, a compound of the Ancient Greek autós (?????) which means “self” and the Latin mobilis which means ?movable?. Originally referencing how manmade vehicles transitioned from relying on external sources of power, such as horses, to being powered by their own engines, it seems ironic now that the word foreshadowed in itself the advent of truly ?self-driving? vehicles.
Self-driving vehicles are becoming more and more of a reality in the automobile industry today. To qualify as fully autonomous, a self-driving vehicle must be able to both chart a path from point A to B and navigate the route by itself safely, free from human intervention. Currently, these works-in-progress rely on a combination of sensors which read the external environment (i.e. cameras, radar, lidar etc.) and artificial intelligence (AI) to make sense of the feedback to do so.
Companies developing self-driving cars range from Audi to Google, though Google’s Waymo in partnership with Lyft has already launched their own fully autonomous commercial ride-sharing service, Waymo One. The service is ongoing testing but is currently availabl...
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