[nfbmi-talk] Audi's Self-Piloted Car Picks You Up

[Terry Eagle]

Great!  No more waiting for relatives and friends who cannot or will not
keep track of time.  Finally, a departure time that is truly a departure
time!

 

10 Years Away - Audi's Self-Piloted Car Picks You Up

 

 

Note:  Probably where the world will go one day - no driver cars!  Here is

Audi's offering in the works . . . 

 

 

Audi's Self-Piloted Car Picks You Up

 

 

 

For the video got to:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/ces-2013-audi-car-parks-itself-picks-t

ap-235507352--abc-news-tech.html

 

 

By Joanna Stern <http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/author/joanna-stern/>  | ABC

News Blogs <http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/>  - 2 hrs 42 mins ago

 

LAS VEGAS - Forget valet parking. The car of the future can find a spot for

you and then pick you up.

 

And the future has driven to CES 2013 <http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/> .

Audi's Connect car

<http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/video/ces-60-audi-pilotless-parking-181654

80>  not only drives and parks itself but the iPhone is its key.

 

"Imagine you are at a shopping center and you want the car to pick you up.

That's exactly what it will do," Annie Lien, Audi Senior Engineer, told ABC

News.

 

Click Here for Full Coverage: CES 2013 <http://abcnews.go.com/technology>  

 

We witnessed it firsthand. At a demo at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Las

Vegas, Audi set up a working demonstration of the technology. Press the

Pickup button on the Audi app, and you can set the time at which you want

the parked car to come pick you up. Tap the button again and it will turn on

the ignition and come get you. No one in the driver's seat.

 

How does it work? Audi has been developing its own self-driving technology,

which it prefers to call piloted parking or driving. (It says it wants to

stress that humans can take control at any time.) The car uses twelve

ultrasound sensors to navigate and avoid obstacles. It parks itself with a

combination of sensors in the car, the garage and roads.

 

The hope is that parking garages will have computers that communicate with

the car, telling it where there is open space. The car is able to make turns

on its own and knows how to maneuver around the garage with external laser

sensors.

 

Click Here: CES 2013 in Pictures

<http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/slideshow/ces-2013-photos-18148569>  

 

The road to autonomous cars isn't a short one. Today Audi announced that it

has become the first automaker granted a license to drive or operate

autonomous cars in Nevada. Nevada passed a law last year making it legal

<http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/watch-out-self-driving-cars-

approved-in-nevada/>  to test self-driving cars in the state, and other

companies, such as Google, have been granted licenses as well. Audi says it

expects the technology it's working on to be commercially available in the

next decade.

 

Until then, we'll continue to look for parking on our own.

 

 

 

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