futurama - What We're Reading - StockBuz2024-03-29T07:25:36Zhttp://stockbuz.ning.com/articles/feed/tag/futuramaEverything You Need to Know About Autonomous Vehicleshttp://stockbuz.ning.com/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-autonomous-vehicles2017-03-06T19:07:07.000Z2017-03-06T19:07:07.000ZStockBuzhttp://stockbuz.ning.com/members/1t2xbcvddkrir<div><p>Believe it or not, autonomous vehicles have been many decades in the making.</p>
<p>Even in 1939, General Motors had an exhibit called “Futurama” at the New York World’s Fair that presented a model of the world 20 years in the future. Central to this display was a system of automated highways and vast suburbs, with a focus on how automation could reduce traffic congestion and lead to the free-flowing movement of people and goods.</p>
<p>Since then, many autonomous vehicle concepts have popped up at various times – but they have always fell short due to technical limitations. Only recently, due to advances in technology, have self-driving cars been able to overcome three primary engineering challenges: sensing the surrounding environment, processing information, and reacting to that environment.</p>
<p>Today, the future for autonomous vehicles is bright, and it is expected that there will be millions of self-driving cars on the road by 2035, creating a multi-billion dollar market.</p>
<h2 style="margin-top: 0;">Autonomous Vehicles: What You Need To Know</h2>
<p>The following infographic comes to us from <a href="https://www.getoffroad.com/">Get Off Road</a>, and it shows the history of autonomous vehicles, how they work, the technical challenges overcome so far, and what the near-future of driverless cars may look like.</p>
<p><img src="http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/autonomous-cars.jpg" alt="Autonomous Vehicles Infographic" /></p>
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