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
kilometres without human commands!
