E&T Engineering Technology Magazine March 2017 [antikvár]

Are you ready to give up control of the wheel? We investigate drlverless vehicles i: our cars of the future special issue. Edttor'sLe by Dickon Ross BSME Awards 2016 Shorlllsled: Dickon Ross, Edilot, business bianij. monlhly, John Rooney, Art Director, business brand: iuslln Pollaid, Columnist, business biand TABBIE; Awards 2016 Gold Award, Best Special Section: Dickon Ross, John Hooney, Chris Edwards, Crispin Andrews, Caioline Ellioil, -Speclium' Gold Award. Best Regular Column: Vitali Vitaliev. Älter All' Sitver Award. Front cover, digital imagery: John Rooney, David McCullough, Nadia Ahdout. Gillian Abbott, 'Immigration' itlon. Feature Article: Ctiris Edwards. 'Recipe lor BSME Rising Stars 2016 Shottllsled: Best Art Team: Best Features Team: Best PrinI Writer (Crispin Andrews) PPA Awards 2016 Shortlisted: Clem Chambers, Columnist of the Year, Business Media: t,^tali \riialiev. Columnist ol the Year, Business Media: Amanda Williams. 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The moment when the steering wheel turned by itself was as shocking and unnatural as that scene in 'The Exorcist' when the child's head rotates 180 degrees. It's something you feel in your stomach. After my initial response, the sensation of being driven by an AI was weird, marvellous and exciting, all at once." That's how our correspondent describes her first trip in a driverless car. The prototype (p42) looks like a transport 'pod' from science fiction, which is where driverless vehicles have been parked for well over a century That's all changing. Lawrie Jones looks at who's winning the driverless car race and where on p36. "Everybody is talking about autonomous driving" says TomTom's Willem Strijbosch. "It's going to happen even sooner than some expect. If you dream X years away then nobody will need to do their own driving any more, we won't have parking places in the cities, we won't have congestion, we don't lose time because we can work in the car The societal benefits are just enormous." Most people will experience this car of the future from the outside first. Autonomous cars are going to have to learn the rules of the road, which is not as straightforward as it first sounds. What is acceptable in one city may be considered outrageous in another. Car companies employ anthropologists to work out how their algorithms can adapt to these cultural differences (p46). Car crime has declined steadily over the last few decades thanks to technology but is on the rise again as thieves learn the technical tricks of the trade (p32). In a driverless future, cars wiU be one part of a complex networked system that includes traffic control such as variable speed limits and traffic lights as well as vehicle to vehicle communication (p64). That should help to keep everything moving and get everyone to their destinations faster but it presents a new security risk too (p54). Will cars of the future be any fun? Electric and hybrid cars are certainly getting faster and slicker (p28). Driverless cars could break completely with the accepted idea of how a car should look. We show you where car design could go in the future (p48) - personal and powerful or cool and convenient? You decide. It may be the glamorous interiors that provide the real fun anyway. What else will lose its drivers? First we'll get used to convoys of lorries trundling down our motorways at night and we'll soon be hopping onto driverless airport shuttles without a second thought. There's everything from city buses to ships. But bicycles? Really? WeU, Google Netherlands ran it as an April Fool's joke last year (https://youtu.be/8LYygdBQ-WA) but a team at Tsinghua University were shortlisted for a National Instruments student competition with their self-balancing bike (https://youtu. be/G3ntcx6ywS4). It's really quite impressive, if a little spooky Did you know? student engineers in Clnina built tlnis riderless bike National Insliumenls Gontiollei (cRIO-9024) Mini PC Gyioscope (MTi-SOO) Lasei-based lachymelei Acluatoi S Moloi Gopley/Maxon Oynamixel EX-106 actuatoi S molot Laser scannei (lidaiSIGK LMSIIl) Aiduino Mega 2580 micieconttollei leceivei (FlySky)