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AUTOPILOT’s Automated Valet Parking Feature Presented At InterTraffic
Automated valet parking (AVP) is one of the key driving modes in the AUTOPILOT project. In AVP, IoT (Internet of Things) technologies enable a vehicle to drive unmanned to a parking spot and to return to the driver upon command. This aspect of the...
Self-Driving Cars Will Profoundly Change The Way People Live
Road trips. Drive-throughs. Shopping malls. Freeways. Car chases. Road rage. Cars changed the world in all sorts of unforeseen ways. They granted enormous personal freedom, but in return they imposed heavy costs. People working on autonomous vehicles generally see...
What Self-Driving Cars Could Learn From Air Traffic Control
In a city 15 years from now, someone will cross the street unexpectedly and step out in front of a self-driving car. The car will be forced to make a split-second decision–swerve into a lamp post on the end of the curb, potentially injuring its passenger? Or stay the...
IoT and Big Data – AUTOPILOT Presented at TransformingTransport Plenary
AUTOPILOT seeks to leverage the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) to develop new automated driving services. The TransformingTransport project works to demonstrate the benefits of Big Data for automated driving. Recognising AUTOPILOT’s essential link with IoT,...
Sensors, Data and Evaluation – From IoT to Automated Driving
From 23 to 25 January 2018, members of the AUTOPILOT project met at the Automotive Campus in the Dutch city of Helmond. Throughout the so-called Plugfest, they worked on three essential parts of the AUTOPILOT adventure: sensor set-up, data processing and...
Smart Mobility Discussed At The Connected Smart Cities Conference 2018
The annual Connected Smart Cities Conference (CSCC) took place this year on 11 January, bringing together representatives of cities, international institutions, academia and industry to discuss this year’s theme “Cities Driving the Digital Transition”. The...
Are You Still Searching, Or Parking Already? Sensors Enable Automated Parking
From automated to remote-controlled parking [...] Current developments now allow the parking process to be started from a distance. In what is known as Remote Parking, the driver selects the parking space in the car and activates the remote mode. They can then leave...
Finnish Autonomous Car Goes For A Leisurely Cruise In The Driving Snow
It’s one thing for an autonomous car to strut its stuff on a smooth, warm California tarmac, and quite another to do so on the frozen winter mix of northern Finland. Martti, a self-driving vehicle system homegrown in Finland, demonstrated just this in a record-setting...
