Autonomous Opel’s go in 2016 the public road on

Posted on 11-09-2014 at 14:17 by JordyS – 8 Comments”

It took a while, but GM has been that autonomous driving sometimes the future can be.

GM made a number of days ago been announced that the new Cadillac CTS will feature all sorts of new hands-free technologies, but that gave us the reputation of the Americans is not really a safe feeling. Also Opel is to the neighborhood, but with the German cars is the concern a step further. About two years in fact, we have the first autonomous driving Opel expect.

GM presents the new techniques in Detroit, and demonstrates also how the system in the Opel works. The car has cameras and sensors, and can communicate with other road users and the infrastructure. So you need to be in the city and low-speed autonomous driving. Ground-breaking is that all is not, because virtually every manufacturer is experimenting currently with such systems. For example, the Renault Next Two, a half a year ago the road went.

The technique works as we all of various other brands to know: the sensors scan the environment for obstacles while the camera is the road markings in the monitor. Thanks to the communication with other vehicles arises in this way, a 360-gradenbeeld of the immediate surroundings of the car. GM’s system must have the public road and also for pedestrians a lot safer. The sensors show for example where small children behind cars play, so you can take action.