autonomous vehicles: the driverless fleet of the future?
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Eventually, autonomous cars could allow you to call your car to your exact location, enabling you to use driving time for more productive tasks. They could also make their own way to fuelling or recharging stations. Not only this, but they could limit the need for some of the current restrictions on drivers, making a number of traditional safety and behavioural considerations obsolete. For more information, visit the blog: https://blog.business.tomtom.com/autonomous-vehicles-the-driverless-fleet-of-the-future/TRANSCRIPT
Intelligent vehicles that make decisions
without driver input are being tested
around the world
£10Million
saying it is currently their top selling point
Up to
15%
Maps need to become ultra detailed, so that cars are able to effectively navigate by themselves
MOST MANUFACTURERS AND ANALYSTS PREDICT THAT FULLY AUTONOMOUS CARS WILL NOT BE DRIVING ON OUR ROADS UNTIL 2020, AT THE EARLIEST.
THE NEXT STEP IN VEHICLE
INTELLIGENCE
The government has pledged
for a UK city to es-tablish itself as the country’s first test-ing area for driver-
less cars
Current prices range from £120,000 to £170,000 per vehicle
Cars still need a human driver ready in case something goes wrong, due to the current legislation
Until every car on the road is autonomous, there are still safety risks
Motorway speed limits might need to be reduced and overtaking rules for ordinary motorists changed
Barriers to adoption
What are the benefits?
AEBS could lead to
27% fewer accidents
to
in 2020
which means
8,000fewer road
deaths per year
What could more ubiquitous connectivity in cars mean?
Instant transfer of driving data could lead to real time insurance, calculated based on how you were driving around the time of a collision
New sensor-based collision detection features that prevent accidents automatically, in the form of Advanced Emergency Braking Systems (AEBS), are already mandatory in new heavy vehicles
Cars could eventually communicate this data to each other and work together to provide even more effective collision prevention
Information about road conditions and delays can be passed between cars, further improving the accuracy of network intelligence, cutting insurance costs and time lost in traffic
A single vehicle could steer many others in a ‘car train’, with a single human driver to take over in an emergency, with safe distances between vehicles reduced to as little as five metres
over
500,000miles
Some driverless vehicles have
recorded
of safe tests drives on US
roads
200km single trips
‘Car trains’ have been tested on
on roads in Spain
lower fuel consumptiondue to autonomous
driving