Record: Autonomous Car Delphi travels 5471 km
Delphi, previously unknown manufacturer of electronic components to the general public, achieved the longest journey ever undertaken autonomous driving in North America. Throughout the crossing of the United States of 5471 km, the Audi SQ5 has adapted in real conditions to different situations (weather, highway exits, diversions, works etc.).
As it had announced, Delphi Automotive PLC completed a US crossing autonomous car. On March 22, a specially equipped Audi SQ5 is part of San Francisco to New York on a journey of 5471 km. Equipped with a multitude of radar sensors, cameras and microprocessors, it carried 99% of the way without human assistance. Based in the UK, Delphi already developing components for autonomous driving systems. This experience has enabled it to assess the extent of his expertise in a variety of driving conditions. The experience is recounted in a press release and on the Delphi Drive web page.
From month to month, car manufacturers and other brands multiply their ads on innovation in the autonomous car industry. At the New York Auto Show last Thursday, the CEO of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, has promised that autonomous cars would reach Japanese roads by the end of 2016 and they would be able to navigate on highways as on urban roads without help a human operator before 2020.
Six experts accompanied the Autonomous Audi
Given this context, it is surprising that Delphi is the first to cross the US from coast to coast. His journey is the longest ever done in autonomous driving on US roads. For nine days the SQ5 in question has crossed 15 states and, as expected, met many potentially difficult situations: bad weather, aggressive surrounding drivers deviations for work ... so that a human operator can understand and respond to these conditions, a computer system potentially more difficult to interpret.
Six Delphi experts accompanied the Autonomous Audi, either inside the vehicle or in a second car to receive and analyze the data produced by the sensors and systems responsible for autonomous driving. The trip has generated more than 2 terabytes of data on the capabilities of the car, including the automatic parking, highway driving, lane change, the outputs from the highway and city driving. "The performance of our car during this trip were outstanding and they have exceeded our expectations, observes Jeff Owens, chief technology officer at Delphi. The intelligence gained through this trip will help us optimize our existing security products and accelerate the development of future products. »
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