I could still remember the day I watch the iRobot as a teen, and
being skeptical about my brother’s statement that one day, the driverless car
will become reality. And it’s now a reality, made possible by… a search engine company,
Google.
While the data source is still a secret recipe, the Google driverless car is powered by
artificial intelligence that utilizes the input from the video cameras inside
the car, a sensor on the vehicle’s top, and some radar and position sensors
attached to different positions of the car. Sounds like a lot of effort to
mimic the human intelligence in a car, but so far the system has successfully
driven 1609 kilometers without human commands!
“You can count on one
hand the number of years it will take before ordinary people can experience
this.” Google co-founder, Sergey Brin said. However, innovation is an
achievement, consumerization is the headache, as Google currently face the
challenge to forge the system into an affordable gem that every worker with an
average salary could benefit from.
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