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Welcome to the first news website devoted to self-driving cars!


Here we regularly publish news, reviews, facts, and research on self-driving cars. You can observe the technical progress of any brand working in this industry, stay current on the technology development level, and discover what they will look like in the future.

The topic of self-driving cars gets more and more popular every day. Dozens of companies spend billions of dollars to get successful in the market. But not only automobile giants work on improving this sphere – brands that have never dealt with cars are getting more and more involved as well. They are leaders in electronics and software development. And self-driving cars improvement, first of all, implies the development of dedicated software necessary to drive them.

Most people do not even realize yet that the great future belongs to autonomous cars. And this future is not so far away.


Road tests

Texas enacts new law to allow self-driving cars on the roads

by Provizor-071 June 20, 2017

Greg Abbott, the Texas Governor, signed a law, giving permission to automakers and companies like Uber and Google to test autonomous vehicles…

Connecticut Legislators Pass Legislation on Self-Driving Cars to Allow Tests on Roads

June 6, 2017

Germany approves the road tests of driverless vehicles on its territory

May 12, 2017

Georgia allows tests of driverless vehicles on the state’s territory

May 9, 2017

NuTonomy has been approved to take road tests in Singapore paired with PSA Groupe, a country-city that welcomes driverless technologies

May 3, 2017

Studies

A new technology could cut off 99.9% of the road tests for driverless cars

by Provizor-071 May 31, 2017

It is all about safety. Driverless vehicles are about increased safety on roads comparing to human drivers. Researchers say that self-driving vehicles…

The truck driving industry in the US will suffer from the job losses caused by autonomous vehicles

May 24, 2017

Ford has the biggest chances to become the leader of producing of self-driving cars

April 5, 2017

The recent British study based on survey of 3600+ people show that their earnings could benefit from driverless technology

March 30, 2017

Hardware

The technology of driverless vehicles is rapidly becoming cheaper

by Provizor-071 April 19, 2017

Velodyne announced the focus on mass production of a new model of technical support for vehicles with autonomous control. The reason for…

Company Luminar introduced sensors for safe driverless driving

April 13, 2017

The sensor of Sony will allow cars to orient in the dark

April 10, 2017

Google’s sensor equipment produced in-house is to drop the cost of Waymo autonomous vehicles

January 16, 2017

Videos

Uber ATG’s upgraded trucks

by Provizor-071 June 29, 2017

Volvo Group made the self-driving garbage truck

by Provizor-071 May 16, 2017

Waymo launches public trial of self-driving cars in Phoenix

by Provizor-071 May 9, 2017

Cruise – travel around San Francisco at night.

by Provizor-071 April 19, 2017

The GATEway Project: UK

by Provizor-071 March 30, 2017

New Research Car Displayed by Toyota

by Provizor-071 March 3, 2017

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Key Advantages of Self-Driving Cars


1. Enhancement of traffic safety level

Around 40,000 people were killed on the US roads in 2016. This is about the same, if a plane full of people crashed every day. 90% of all road accidents were caused by a human factor. The main of them are concentration loss when using mobile devices while driving, over speeding, drunk or careless driving, failure to follow driving regulations, and driving after dark.

That’s why autonomous cars safety is one of their key advantages. At the same time, self-driving vehicles safety is also a very important and challenging objective, achieving which will let driverless cars on the road.


2. No necessity in a driver with a corresponding license and driving skills

Driverless vehicles allow physically and mentally disabled people, children, or persons without driving licenses to travel by car without a driver. There is also an opportunity to spend time efficiently while traveling or, what is even better, to have some rest from driving. This way you get a chance to travel and enjoy beautiful landscapes, have important meetings on the go, work on your PC, not to waste your time on walking from a parking lot/garage to your destination point and back, save your expenditures on a driver, as well as a whole lot of other advantages related to driving.


3. The decrease of traffic jams

Mass transition to self-driving cars will give us an opportunity to use roads more effectively eliminating traffic jams and decreasing our traveling times. Unlike a human driver, self-driving vehicles won’t waste time on taking numerous decisions. Thus, driving crossroads, for example, will be far more effective. Driverless cars will be connected to each other and it will give an opportunity to have higher traffic with higher speeds on roads. Moreover, your travel time will also decrease thanks to choosing the most convenient route.

But here we see the other side of the coin. Transition to self-driving cars will lead to greater demand for vehicles as a whole, and this can also cause traffic jams. So, in fact, this issue is still open for discussion.

Nevertheless, the transition to self-driving vehicles will get a number of other advantages – for example, to name just a few, a great motivation to live far away from big cities, as now you’ll have a number of options how to spend your time while your car is self-driving, and it can be a reason for the city outgrowth, or it can be a great incentive for creating big truck campers providing you with an opportunity to live and travel with comfort in different places.


What are the key tasks/problems on our way to self-driving cars?


1. To make an autonomous car “smart” enough and safe for traffic

The most serious and long-term task is to improve the dedicated software that will drive an autonomous car. To enhance this software, various traffic scenarios have to be worked out where it is taught to behave correctly. But to make a car always respond correctly to different road situations, the software needs to experience them, even if they are the rarest and most challenging ones. An example of such situations can be driving through the construction area, or over a ball, or over a skateboard on the road. That’s why a self-driving car needs to drive hundreds of millions or even hundreds of billions of miles to become really safe – and the main condition is to be tested in real city conditions and situations.

Another serious challenge for this technology is that a human behavior can be really unpredictable. So, the software has to be extremely sophisticated to be capable of both recognizing and classifying objects and predict object’s behavior.


2. Risks of hacking attacks on driverless cars

Since the very moment when various computing devices appeared, the humanity has witnessed numerous cyber attacks. One can barely imagine the consequences if any hacking attacks on an autonomous vehicle take place. One such an occurrence will be quite enough to draw the attention of all customers and policy makers in the state. Financially motivated criminals are the greatest hazard. Cyber terrorists are the same dangerous. So, cyber security of this technology has to be one of the most important issues on our agenda.


3. Snow and rain

Another serious problem of autonomous cars which has to be solved is self-driving at night and in heavy rain or snow – LIDARs, cameras, and sensors, used by driverless cars, are still not capable of working correctly in these conditions. But the technology is constantly improving and such weather and light conditions appear to be just a temporary obstacle.


Nevertheless, the autonomous driving technology will contribute much to the mankind development, and we’ve got no doubt this technology will change our world for the better. The technology of the future has appeared on the horizon!