《《Making cars safer through technology innovation》.pdf

W H I T E P A P E R Roman Staszewski Distinguished Member Group Technical Staff Texas Instruments Hannes Estl Worldwide Systems Marketing for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) Texas Instruments Making cars safer through technology innovation TI technology enables advanced driver assistance, Introduction paving the way toward autonomous vehicle operation. Today, automotive manufacturers are introduc- ing new vehicle control features to save fuel, Cars that drive themselves have long been a dream of futurists. Experiments with remote control date back nearly a century, and automated highways were talked about in the 1939 New York add security and convenience, and above all World’s Fair as part of “The World of Tomorrow.” But hopes for fully autonomous vehicles remained make cars much safer to drive. These changes, out of reach until recently, when the availability of new electronic technologies suddenly turned the fantasies of the past into present-day realities. designed to assist drivers and make vehicles more autonomous in operation, are based on new The general public is aware of Google’s development of self-driving technology, which has been