Dream into reality: driverless cars closer and closer

US technology blog TechCrunch wrote that today, due to the automotive industry has always been conservative have begun to promote the development of unmanned vehicle technology, and even Ford CEO is expected to be released within five years of such products, so our actual driverless cars Perhaps distance closer than imagined. "It was launched five years will driverless cars." Ford CEO Mark Fields (Mark Fields) at CES said. 
　　Over the years, we always somewhat distant unmanned distance - a lot of people think that this car have to wait at least a decade to market. If even the conservative automotive industry are considered to be within five years of unmanned vehicles will be listed, we work with the actual distance of the dream perhaps even closer. 

　　CES 1 January this year is no longer the Samsung, Toshiba and a public Chinese iPhone mobile phone manufacturers in the world, all the major car manufacturers have also set up a booth - they are also very unified purpose, is to come to explore the unmanned automotive technology.But in fact, this market is not just optimistic about the automotive industry, but also a lot of chip manufacturers. 

　　Nvidia's keynote is very tedious to explain the latest developments in the company's next-generation chips and depth of learning technology: In how without using expensive sensor, the camera directly to the autopilot with the car. NVIDIA display all products are focused on the automotive industry. 

　　While Qualcomm has not invested so much energy, but also announced that there were a variety of concept cars using the company's chips. Intel talked about UAV autopilot, but the company will no doubt these sensors in your car. 

　　Google obviously want to play a role in this field, Tesla same. However, despite these projects sparked widespread concern, but the auto industry is still possible to beat them in the market.These companies are testing a variety of unmanned vehicles, Audi and even driverless car carrying five reporters all the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Ford said the company's driverless cars now on the road, other companies have already launched a similar attempt. 

　　But five years is not far away, but there are still many areas of driverless cars did not answer the question. For example, if an accident occurs, the responsibility of who is responsible? How to avoid the driver's negligence, and how to manually control back to the driver? How to avoid motion sickness driver? Are there any fun to drive? In the long run, as well as car makers may therefore at greater risk: driverless cars will change the relationship between humans and vehicles, makes us more dependent carpool service. If this happens, car sales will undoubtedly be affected. 

　　But there are other issues to be answered. Because almost always rely on unmanned vehicles highly accurate map, the driver must always keep in touch with the manufacturer in order to receive regular updates. Does this mean that the driver must subscribe to these services? If car manufacturers will form alliances with each other to share map data? 

　　In addition, there are many regulatory hurdles to overcome. I communicate all objects at CES are considered truly not hinder the development of unmanned vehicle technology. 

　　But the United States established automobile manufacturers may not be the first company to launch unmanned vehicles. "The key to whoever may no longer listed, but rather who is the last of an accident." Ford spokesman said this week. In countries like the United States this lawsuit, you only need a few serious accidents will make the entire industry back a few years. At 100% before to ensure safety, consumers will not buy these cars - because of all drivers that their driving skills are good, so driverless cars have outstanding in this regard. 

　　Therefore, the next few years will gradually add more cars may autopilot function. Adaptive cruise control will gradually evolve, enabling the autopilot when traffic jams. Lane departure warning will become a real lane keeping function, on the highway to help the driver. Auxiliary parking will evolve into a true automatic parking. All of these technological advances will gradually pooled. I hope to make this gradual growth regulators recognized industry trends, and ultimately allow driverless cars on the road. 

　　One day, some city roads or highways may even prohibit someone driving a car into, after all, the human ability to predict and driving efficiency is much lower than the PC.