Unveiling the Future of Driverless Cars
How Driverless Cars Will Transform Your Everyday
Will driverless cars be in your future?
Exploring the Future of Driverless Cars and Their Impact on Your Daily Life!
Imagine a car driving you to the airport while you read the paper, dropping you off, and then driving itself home or back to its car share pod – saving you money on taxis and parking fees.
How about telling the car to pick you up at work, navigating peak hour traffic for you or pick up your groceries or dry cleaning? Or what about a night out? Autonomous vehicles mean you always have a designated driver. The autonomous vehicle, or robo car, isn’t just about a driverless car, it is about a revolutionary change in the way we will live and get around.
GoGet, Australia’s first and largest car share organisation, is helping to lead the way into this future. We launched Australia’s first industry-backed Autonomous Vehicle Research and Development program (AVRAD) in conjunction with the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 2014. The program was based on data being collected by Ethel the Yaris, a prototype robo car equipped with data collecting instruments vital to understanding autonomous vehicle use.
“Ultimately, the future is one in which everyone will have a chauffeur if they want one, thanks to vehicles that will drive themselves,” Bruce Jeffreys, GoGet co-founder said. “But autonomous vehicles are so much more pivotal than this. They will clearly reshape society. Today’s big question —one that I believe we have begun to answer— is how exactly will Australia reach that future?”
Not only did GoGet and UNSW learn provide a range of applicable insights into driverless vehicles, it served as a platform from which these insights and evolving technology can be integrated into car share in the future, making car share one of the top transport solutions of this century.
Director of the UNSW Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) Vinayak Dixit said of the project, “We’re getting information about how people drive and how they interact with different moving entities as well as other infrastructure. This information is extremely useful when you’re trying to develop algorithms for autonomous driving.”
Future generations will scratch their heads when their elders speak of road rage – it simply won’t exist. Hooning will also be a thing of the past as will bingles in the drive through.