Ford: Autonomous driving until 2021

2021 at the latest autonomous driving Ford's first in the series to be built. New test car already show that the complex high-tech sensors can be always better hide.

Autonomous driving is currently the most exciting topics in the world of cars, more powerful systems promise the relief of driver in more and more situations of everyday life. Ford wants to swim in at the top of the field and has now announced to bring a first vehicle with the ability to autonomous driving on the road until 2021. The current Ford Mondeo, which is on the road in the United States as a merger and already diligently collects test kilometers is used as the basis for the development and testing. The previous prototype with four eye-catching LiDAR sensors were fitted on the roof to make a most accurate picture of the car's surroundings, upcoming test car, only two of the large sensors to wear. On the way to series production Ford will always continue working, unassuming in the overall design to integrate the necessary cameras and distance meter - and if all goes well, we'll see the autonomously driving Ford by 2021 only on second glance which highly complex technology under the outer skin is and quietly ensures that the driver relaxed lean back.

Ford wants to bring autonomous driving by 2021 in series

Although the LiDAR sensors are much slimmer and only in the double - instead of the four-pack are installed, they can earn the same amount of data as the previously used Quartet. More Enwicklungsschritte of this type should provide until 2021 for this, that the complete sensor system of autonomously of cars can be discreetly hidden. In addition to the technology to capture all relevant environmental data, the processing and analysis of the obtained data represents a major challenge for the developers. So autonomous driving safe and reliable working even in unusual situations, must within fractions of a second huge amounts of data process a powerful software and interpret correctly. That "virtual driver system" programme aimed at Ford this after similar premises as a man decide, in contrast to this but never by trivialities distracted or be distracted by fatigue. A basis for this ability represents a high-definition network of 3D cards that betrayed hundreds of details about his immediate surroundings the car and deliver to a precise knowledge of the own position. These maps integrated also conduct and rules of the road that are completely familiar human drivers. In addition to these static data, create an exact image of the traffic situation to the autonomously driving Ford around the sensors permanently and allow as an appropriate response to the behaviour of other road users. And if the development is actually runs according to plan, be you first self-propelled Ford already 2021 along our roads roll - and behave not only as a human being, but in many situations be even better drivers.

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