Self Driving Cars

Computer Engineering

Self-driving cars have, in recent years, clearly become among the most actively discussed and researched topics. By all definitions, these systems, as a third robotic revolution, belong to the robotics field, despite the fact that people generally assign them to a specific domain of the automotive industry. Autonomous car/Driverless car can also be called as robotic car since it automatically operates by itself without the aid of any driver. This car senses environment such as traffic, weather, surface conditions, road infrastructure, adjacent cars, maps, sign boards etc with the help of cameras, radar, lidar, GPS and navigational paths. The advantages of autonomous cars over normal cars is such as fewer traffic collisions, increased reliability, increased safety, reduction of accidents, increased efficiency, secured human life etc. The main disadvantages of it, is the issues of cyber security, software malfunction, liability of damage and loss of driver related jobs. This paper gives the information on working of autonomous cars by explaining the working of various sensors used to control it.

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