How dealt an autonomous car is actually with snow?

Posted on 14-03-2016 at 15:04 by rynnus – 40 Comments”

Because where is the wegbelijning?

The autonomous car is a noble pursuit. It takes all the work out of the hands of man, and is doing a lot better and safer. That is, in any case, the intended. Nowadays, most manufacturers are still in the very extensive testing. Each circumstance must be extensively examined and tested.

So is that also with snow, which is capable of the whole road network to be transformed into one big white placard where cars over will have to drive. The autonomic functions that we now already see, such as Lane Assist, Active Cruise Control and Rijbaanwisselassistent, working primarily with radar – and camera-controlled techniques. All beautiful of course, but an additional disadvantage is that the camera functions, for example, by heavy rains, snow or low sun can considerably be prevented.

Digital wegenplan
However, there are techniques in the making that show how a car also in bad weather conditions just to chug. It is for example possible to provide the environment in ideal weather full 3D scan, and to use this information in times of bad weather. Tesla release all of its cars collect data about the way in which this autonomous driving. Ford is using a similar something. So you get a huge extensive and detailed, up-to-date and digital wegenplan.

You can also thanks to that digital wegenplan your location very accurately measure. The car scans real-time environment, and compares this with the data of the wegenplan, and the current GPS data. This allows the car to one centimetre places. With GPS, this can be approximately with a precision of 10 meters.

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With the help of very powerful lasers and LiDAR sensors can snowflakes and raindrops through an algorithm to be filtered out, so that the ‘image’ of what the car can not be bijinvloed by such obstructions.

All in all, not bad developments on the oh so dreaded autonomous driving. The technology is coming-even if it’s snowing – the question is just how quickly it arrives. The above techniques allowed Ford to us hints, but we will undoubtedly go back to see it on other brands.