The new cartographers

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3093, 2016, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Driverless cars carry many different kinds of sensors--including cameras, lidar and radar--but they are not capable of fully understanding what they see. They may be able to steer themselves around obstacles and brake to avoid collisions, but can have trouble reading unfamiliar objects in the way humans can. Because of this, driverless cars need highly detailed 3D maps of the roads they are to navigate. Here, Hodson discusses how rival companies that gear up to put driverless cars on the road are racing to map the world in more detail than ever.