Car Future Present And Past

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Past, Present and Future of the Technology ABSTRACT— Automobile has become the dominant transport mode in the world in the last century. In order to meet a continuously growing demand for transport, one solution is to change the control approach for vehicle to full driving automation, which removes the driver from the control loop to improve efficiency and reduce accidents. Recent work shows that there are several realistic paths towards this deployment : driving assistance on passenger cars, automated commercial vehicles on dedicated infrastructures, and new forms of urban transport (car-sharing and cybercars). Cybercars have already been put into operation in Europe, and it seems that this approach could lead the way towards full automation on most urban, and later interurban infrastructures. The European project CyberCars has brought many improvements in the technology needed to operate cybercars over the last three years. A new, larger European project is now being prepared to carry this work further in order to meet more ambitious objectives in terms of safety and efficiency. This paper will present past and present technologies and will focus on the future developments. KEYWORDS— Automated driving, automated vehicles, cybercars, Urban transport, intelligent transportation systems (ITS). INTRODUCTION Cybercars are fully automated road vehicles. A fleet of such vehicles forms a transportation system called CTS (Cybernetic Transportation System), for passengers or goods, operating in either a direct connection or an elaborate network, providing on-demand door-to-door transportation. The fleet of cars is under control of a central management system in order to distribute transportation requests efficiently and co-ordinate traffic in a particular environment. At the initial stages, cybercars are designed for short trips at low speed in an urban environment

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