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Forget Google’s self-driving cars, here’s something totally different and unique. Researchers at Oxford University have developed a new auto-drive technology drive by Apple’s iPad which allows drivers to hand control of the wheel to the robot system to drive itself. Unlike Google’s self-driving cars, this technology combines the best of both worlds: drivers can control their vehicle themselves, but the iPad can optionally take over when the system determines it knows a route.
They built the tablet into the dashboard of a Nissan Leaf and the driver can activate the autonomous driving mode with a single tap. Of course, this technology is still in its infancy and far from commercialization. Currently, the prototype navigation system costs a whopping £5,000, or about $7,500, but researches believe that over time it will work its way down to about just a £100, or approximately $150. I’ve included a bunch of interesting clips just past the break…
CleanTechnica quotes Professor Paul Newman of Oxford University’s Department of Engineering Science who said that “it’s easy to imagine that this kind of technology could be in a car you could buy.”
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/03/01/nissan-leaf-ipad/#sthash.iLPTiqvk.dpuf
http://mrg.robots.ox.ac.uk/robotcar/
Forget Google’s self-driving cars, here’s something totally different and unique. Researchers at Oxford University have developed a new auto-drive technology drive by Apple’s iPad which allows drivers to hand control of the wheel to the robot system to drive itself. Unlike Google’s self-driving cars, this technology combines the best of both worlds: drivers can control their vehicle themselves, but the iPad can optionally take over when the system determines it knows a route.
They built the tablet into the dashboard of a Nissan Leaf and the driver can activate the autonomous driving mode with a single tap. Of course, this technology is still in its infancy and far from commercialization. Currently, the prototype navigation system costs a whopping £5,000, or about $7,500, but researches believe that over time it will work its way down to about just a £100, or approximately $150. I’ve included a bunch of interesting clips just past the break…
CleanTechnica quotes Professor Paul Newman of Oxford University’s Department of Engineering Science who said that “it’s easy to imagine that this kind of technology could be in a car you could buy.”
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/03/01/nissan-leaf-ipad/#sthash.iLPTiqvk.dpuf
http://mrg.robots.ox.ac.uk/robotcar/
