Technologies that Changed the World: Autonomous Vehicles

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Jaico Publishing House, Nov 20, 2023 - Technology & Engineering - 92 pages

Embark on a thrilling journey and unlock the secrets behind the driverless vehicles of tomorrow.

IN TECHNOLOGIES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES, author Jim Whiting traces the evolution of key innovations in an ever-changing landscape of automobiles. Through an attractive blend of captivating prose and photographs, he offers an engaging account of the past, present, and future of autonomous vehicles. 

In these pages, witness the splendid capabilities of adaptive cruise control, active steering, and GPS navigation technology, which enable these autonomous wonders to navigate effortlessly from point A to B in “autopilot” mode.

This book captures the tireless efforts of brilliant minds and companies that have contributed to this ground-breaking field.

 

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Contents

Dreaming Driverless
Prospects and Perils
Timeline
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

2018 study showed accidents According to estimates Artificial Intelligence automated system autonomous driving autonomous vehicles Carcraft Carnegie Mellon University cofounded cruise DARPA Grand Challenge DARPA Urban Challenge Dean Pomerleau detect by lidar domain name registry Dreaming Driverless driverless car driverless vehicles driving cars eliminate bank tellers Elon Musk feared that ATMs featured driverless Five vehicles finish founding in 2017 Global Positioning System Google unit Google’s autonomous cars googolplex graduates with robotics Hands Across America highways History of Self-Driving Houdina Houdina's office human driver Inventor Francis lane lines Larry Page million miles minivan from Pittsburgh Navigating NavLab number of fatalities on-board computer operations parking passengers radar Road Ahead roadway robotics engineering skills scale model scientist John McCarthy second Grand Challenge self-driving cars self-driving vehicles Sergey Brin Stanford startup steering TAKEAWAY Terregator There’s Todd Jochem traffic transportation urban areas Waymo wheel windshield

About the author (2023)

JIM WHITING has had a 17-year stint in publishing Northwest Runner, a regional magazine in Olympia, Greece. He’s authored over 100 titles on varied subjects ranging technology classical musicians, contemporary pop icons, saints, scientists, and explorers.

Bibliographic information

TitleTechnologies that Changed the World: Autonomous Vehicles
AuthorJim Whiting
PublisherJaico Publishing House, 2023
ISBN8119792769, 9788119792764
Length92 pages
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Technology & Engineering / General
  
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