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California is the latest state to allow testing of Google's self-driving cars on the roads, though only with a human passenger along as a safety measure.
Gov. Edmund "Jerry" Brown signed the autonomous-vehicles bill into law last month alongside Google co-founder Sergey Brin and State Sen. Alex Padilla, who authored the bill, at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. The bill, SB 1298, will set up procedures and requirements for determining when the cars are road-ready.
Brin hopes that self-driving cars will be able to drive on public streets in five years or less.
"Anybody who first gets in the car and finds the car is driving will be a little skittish. But they'll get over it," said Brown when asked if the California Highway Patrol was on board with the plan.
The cars use a combination of technologies, including radar sensors on the front, video cameras aimed at the surrounding area, various other sensors and artificial-intelligence software that helps steer. Google is the most visible company working on these types of vehicles, but similar projects are under way at other organizations.
Google has already been testing the cars on the road in Nevada, which passed a law last year authorizing driverless vehicles. Both Nevada and California require the cars to have a human behind the wheel who can take control of the vehicle at any time.
So far, the cars have have racked up more than 300,000 driving miles, and 50,000 of those miles were without any intervention from the human drivers, Google says.
There have been no accidents while the cars were controlled by the computer. The only documented accident with one of the Google vehicles was a fender bender that took place while a human was in control.
Brin, who sported a pair of Google glasses at the media event without comment, said the cars could address a variety of current transportation issues. First and foremost, he said, the self-driving cars would be safer than human-driven cars. There were just under 33,000 deaths from motor vehicle accidents in the United States in 2010.
They also could ferry around people who are usually unable to to drive, such as blind people.
"Some people have other disabilities, some people are too young, some people are too old, sometimes we're too intoxicated," said Brin.
Ideally, a car that drives itself can minimize traffic by chaining together with other self-driving vehicles and using highways more efficiently. Drivers wouldn't be limited to listening to NPR and honking during their morning commute; instead they could use that time to be productive, like the millions of people who take public transit currently do.
Brin also discussed the many parking lots in urban and suburban areas, calling them "a scar to the surface of the Earth." Self-driving cars would be able to drop you off at work and then pick up another person instead of idling in a parking lot. If you did opt to own your own car, it could park itself in the most efficient way possible.
Consumer Watchdog, a consumer-rights group, has expressed reservations about the cars on privacy grounds, saying they would allow Google to gather personal information about passengers.
Google's fleet of vehicles started with Toyota Prius Hybrids. The project is directed by Sebastian Thrun, who also co-founded Google Street View.
There are many legal and technical problems still to be worked out before the cars are commonplace. Asked who would get the ticket when a driverless car runs a red light, Brin replied, "Self-driving cars do not run red lights."
-Courtesy of CNN
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A single passenger vehicle has been on every automaker’s mind, and Toyota is the one who has finally materialized that thought. At CEATEC Japan 2012 last week, The Company was seen with this ultra-compact, single passenger electric vehicle called the “Smart INSECT”. Short for “information network social electric city transporter,” it connects the home, vehicle, and people in new ways through Toyota’s cloud services. The Smart Insect concept seems like a thinner version of city cars like the Smart ForTwo or Scion iQ, with some kind of battery-electric drivetrain. The interior has an aircraft-like yoke rather than a traditional steering wheel along with small doors which open upwards.
The Smart INSECT incorporates new features like face and voice recognition. Motion sensors and cameras identify pre-registered drivers as they come closer and it will also welcome the person with blinking lights, messages and sounds from the instrument panel. It also has the capacity to connect to the driver’s home via a smartphone to manage systems like door locks and air conditioning. It can also apparently predict the driver’s intentions like opening doors automatically when driver reaches out to the door etc by tracking body movements. In the interior, a large display is featured above the steering wheel which offers a detailed GPS mavigation system which is connected to the cloud-based Toyota Smart Center, which hosts a virtual agent that provides navigation instructions through voice command.
As of now, the Smart Insect is only a concept, but the regular Coms do give us a detail regarding its abilities. Unfortunately, Toyota says they have no plans to take the Smart Insect concept car to production.
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Toyota has put its proverbial powertrain eggs in just the hybrid basket in recent years, but it looks like the automaker is going add of downsized engines and direct injection to help increase non-hybrid efficiency.
According to Automotive News, Toyota will introduce a slew of revised engines and new transmissions over the next two years. Toyota has quickly become one of the few automakers not to take advantage of the efficiency gains of variable valve timing direct injection, and turbocharging.
Toyota is hoping to begin rolling out two new engines and two new transmissions starting next year. AN reports the first of which will be a new 2.5-liter Atkinson-cycle I-4 with direct injection, slated to find its way into the brand’s hybrids. Coming in 2014 will be a 2.0-liter turbo-four, along with a new continuously variable transmission for small-to-midsize cars and six- or eight-speed transmissions for larger vehicles. Currently, only Toyota hybrids use a CVT and the Lexus LS and IS F are the only models in the company’s portfolio to use eight-speed automatics. It’s also been rumored that Toyota may introduce a CVT in the next-generation Corolla to replace the current car’s four-speed auto.
According to our source close to the matter, Toyota originally planned on introducing a direct-injection V-6 in the 2013 Avalon, but delayed that to 2015. The automaker has had direct injection-equipped engines on sale outside of North American since 2006, and only recently introduced the technology in the U.S. in the Lexus GS and LS and Scion FR-S.
-Courtest of MotorTrend
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