Guido Castellano and Marco Morello
Barcelona
Do not get distracted by reading a notice of WhatsApp or yelling at a pedestrian crossing away from bold stripes. They respect in pedantically speed limits, obey the signals, do not drink, do not take drugs, do not fall asleep at the wheel. In summary, much better guide us. It’s the car without driver, future protagonists of the streets , the designated master asphalt roughly from 2023 onwards. The forecast is signed by Elon Musk, Tesla’s number one, construction company of electric sports cars. The volcanic entrepreneur is not limited to outline a vision: he peppered his Model S luxury of sensors, cameras and assorted technologies that enabled them to go from Los Angeles to New York Guided for 96 percent of the way by technology. While prototypes of Google Steering devoid have already accumulated over 2 million kilometers of public trails totaling just 17 incidents. Each caused by human error, not by their chips and algorithms. The car that drives itself went from prototype to reality . Here are the things to know.
are already here
will upset our daily habits becoming, at the same time, more useful, ecological and infinitely safer . From Audi to Mercedes , which has unveiled a sedan with armchairs that have their backs to the controls and turn the cabin into a sitting area, BMW to Toyota (most optimistic Musk, has as goal 2020), the major giants of the four wheels participating in the construction site of a revolution that will save countless lives: will avoid 4.2 million accidents the year, according to one estimate American entity no profit “Eno Center for Transportation.” With savings record of 5.6 trillion dollars every twelve months between damage, injuries and deleted collateral costs. Word of Morgan Stanley bank.
The need for standards
” The technology is already ahead, traveling faster than the rules that should comply. We need precise and uniform laws on the subject “reasons with View Mark Fields, Ford’s global CEO. In the US unmanned cars are legal in four states out of fifty , thirteen are launching ad hoc measures, in Europe it is London move that would accommodate these robots traveling in the streets of the City. “The virtual guide system” summarizes Fields “is a brain that thinks. It should be considered a driver to all human intervention will be secondary or superfluous.
the latest news
at the Spanish event, the US manufacturer was in good company. Volvo , in collaboration with Ericsson, has shown “Concept 26″, changing the car with extra large screen and luxurious recliner, where sprawl, read or watch a movie while the autopilot will lead us to the destination . Seat, SAP and Samsung have got together to give form to a connected car, equipped with typical functions of a smartphone: for example, you can open it from the phone, the keys into retirement, or pay off a car park just resting your finger on a fingerprint reader located next to the transmission. Exactly as with the way mobile payments already spread abroad and arriving in Italy.
what does
” The car that drives itself will live a kind genetic mutation also from the aspect and use point of view, “he told view Enrico Salvatori, vice president of Qualcomm . A company little known to the less technological, but which produces Snapdragon, silicon heartbeat of most smartphones on the market and microchips that make intelligent and connected to the web many vehicles. “Today the cars are designed to protect passengers from accidents. They have steel plates, airbags, safety bars. They are very heavy, consequently consume much. Those in autonomous driving, do not make accidents and can be made with lighter materials. Will be electric and non-polluting “continues Salvatori. “They will not need batteries that rival the existing fuel tanks,” adds the manager, “why will recharge whenever that will be parked in the office, in the supermarket, in the garage. Like
the ethical stumbling
It also changes the way you think l ‘ Use of the four wheels: “it seems to us to use the car much,” says Salvatori “but in practice always remains parked and little-used . The one on the autonomous driving, look like more of a family taxi. He will take us to work, will take their children to school, take them to the football field and then they bring back home before coming back to us in the office and escort us to the theater with our wife. ” The technology to achieve this type of cars, as demonstrated by the Barcelona Fair, is ready. The next step will be to make it mandatory by law. A scenario not without shadows. In the program the computer that scalzeranno us from the steering wheel, will be crucial to address a number of ethical problems. For example, in an extreme case, we will save our life or sacrifice to dodge a group of pedestrians sending the car that welcomes us into a wall? The philosophy of the lesser evil , accessed from a selfish point of view, is not so satisfactory.
the economic impact
in addition, these mobile boffins will result in the loss of many jobs work . According to a study by the consulting firm KPMG, the insurance market will leave the street up to 40 percent of its value over the next 25 years: more virtuous cars, immune to accidents or near, will lower considerably the premiums and, consequently, the armature of the sector. To be equally penalized will be workshops: a few clashes mean less body shops to repair , glasses and change tires to replace. Good news for our pockets, but also a social emergency with which it will be mandatory to reckon within an unexpected chapter of the old titanic clash between man and machine.
The pirate alarm
Not to mention that a computer, no matter how advanced and responsible, is not inviolable. Last year, hackers demonstrated to a reporter of the journal Wired as it can take control remotely Steering and brakes of a Jeep, turn on the radio or the ‘conditioned air. While other hackers managed to extinguish a Tesla or block the doors becoming part of the software that manages the on-board electronics. Woe to slip on apocalyptic tendencies, but it is clear that such tools represent unpublished weapons for terrorists or activists, to stage demonstrations, they might decide to paralyze the streets of a city by disabling dozens of cars at the same time.
the weaknesses revealed by hackers were quickly resolved by the manufacturers with a software update, but the potential flaws are undeniable. There is a fair amount of time in which to blot and the major players in the industry are already working hand in hand to ensure common standards of safety and high. In the game of the future of the car without driver, also played their fate.
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