To form a new corporate structure, Google Inc. hopes to optimize costs and improve the manageability of individual functional units. The development of systems for the autopilot responds division Google X, but in the following year, car in the direction of Google can get an independent division .
Over time, this unit will begin to offer services on short-term. As prototypes of such vehicles is actively tested in San Francisco and Austin (Texas), and the first services using robo car will be provided in these cities. True, at first they will be limited to all closed areas such as the perimeters of enterprises, business centers, campuses and military bases.
The advent of robotic taxis will enable this technology to meet a wide range of consumers, which in the future should change for the better public attitude to the autopilot system - currently, only one in three Americans ready to move in a car without a driver. Google also will be able to earn on advertising to geo-referenced, showing offers its customers on the monitors inside the automatic taxi.
Automakers more impressive track record also did not lag behind the pace of market newcomers development autopilot. Hyundai Motor Company said this week that it had received a license for the operation of two prototype vehicles with autopilot in Nevada, USA. One of them will be electric vehicles KIA Soul EV, a second - version of the Hyundai Tucson in the hydrogen fuel cell. Developed Koreans autopilot system must learn to confidently recognize traffic lights, road signs, pedestrians, cyclists and other objects of the road network. Related Products :
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