Google Car become intelligent, children recognize and manage the risk – Contattolab

They travel between Texas and California and to date have covered more than two million kilometers in range. The developers have taken advantage of Halloween to “teach” the car as riconscere children, even if masked, and to behave with due prudence.

Machines increasingly technological and intelligent progress in this area it is growing with a consistently impressive. In the US, are being tested new driverless car, when they circulate on the roads of California and 48 have traveled over 2 million kilometers autonomously, ie without human intervention, and 1.5 million kilometers driven by a driver. The vehicles were for an “intelligence” out of the ordinary are indeed programmed to be prudent, if there are children around, the cars slow down. The company claims to have chosen the day of Halloween to the entry road, in fact, the car can recognize even less disguised, explains one of the designers; “We teach our cars to drive with greater caution in the presence of children, if the sensors recognize the figure of a child, masked or not, the software is able to manage themselves and therefore you comporteri otherwise (by adults). Their movements can be unpredictable – suddenly crossing the street or running along a sidewalk – and their presence can be hidden by parked vehicles . “

Google driverless car

it is a Google project that uses technology to create autonomous cars. The project is currently led by engineer Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View, whose Stanford team created the robotic vehicle Stanley who won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and its prize of $ 2 million from the Department of Defense of the United States. The team developing the system was made up of 15 engineers working for Google, including Chris Urmson, Mike Marlboro, and Anthony Levandowski who had worked on the DARPA Grand and urban challenges. In parallel, similar projects are being carried out by other companies in California, including Apple.