MIT intelligent car co-pilot

The Mechanical engineers and robotics that work at the MIT have developed a design of an intelligent automobile co-pilot . It will be sits in the background and it will only interferes if you’re about to have an accident. If you fall asleep, for example, the co-pilot will activate and keeps you on the road until you wake up again. Like other automation and semi-automatics

solutions, the people from the MIT co-pilot uses an on-board camera and laser rangefinder to identify obstacles, this is similar to some work done by the BMW in the past. These obstacles are then combined with various data points just like the driver’s performance, and the car’s speed, stability, and physical characteristics this help to create constraints. The software  of the co-pilot stays completely silent unless you come close to breaking one of these constraints which might be as simple as a car in front braking quickly, or as complex as taking a corner too quickly. When this happens, a ton of robotics under the hood take over, only passing back control to the driver when the car is safe.            

                                                                      
                                                              The video does a fairly good job of explaining the system.


The intelligent co-pilot created by MIT is highly contrasted with Google’s self-driving cars, which are completely computer-controlled unless you lean forward, put your hands on the wheel, and take over. This is a lot like an airplane’s auto-pilot, where the human pilot only takes over if something goes wrong, or there are adverse conditions that the flight control system can’t handle. The problem with the “human backup” approach is that you’re asking someone who has been leaning back for X hours to suddenly take over the controls, which results in panicky behavior. It recently emerged that the Air France Flight 447 accident was caused by the autopilot disengaging, and then the human pilot making a silly mistake.

                                                        

There is also an issue that create a disliking feeling,that will be that eventually no one knows how to drive a car or fly a plane. This is not so bad if every car in the world, on every road is automatic, and if steering wheels are removed altogether, but the in between period could be tricky. it kinda make me feel like we are getting to the era of "I Robot" remember that movie, well it's kinda scary. To this end, the MIT team admits that their co-pilot needs to be adjusted to deliver significant negative feedback so that drivers don’t get to feel too bad about a machine taken the fun part of a car.

Well i will say by to you until my next post but, i will no say by without showing you the video about the movie that i mentioned before. Even when i said that is kinda scary to see the future coming so fast to us, i still enjoy technology and i can't wait for more, and more amazing things to come and change our everyday.