ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the language of the technology used in driverless vehicles, focusing on cars, and identifies current practice and status of forthcoming driverless vehicles (DV) projects, and considers strategic partnerships between market developers, countries, and consumers. In general terms, the vast majority of the individual technology components needed to attain these advanced levels of DV are and available today. The devices, which combine hardware and software, all contain some elements of artificial intelligence. Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) is light detection and ranging. LIDAR emits light rays and waits for them to bounce back. It has excellent depth perception in 3-D, but does not perceive color. Radio detection and ranging (RADAR) and LIDAR play the same role in the DV’s set of tools, and some consider them redundant. Driverless trucks have a huge amount of economic potential, as a large percentage of US goods are moved by truck.
