This is how a driverless car sees you

Driverless car trail blazer Elon Musk is confident that technology capable of dealing with real world roads is less than two years away from production, but predicts that regulators will take up to five years to approve it.

The computers being developed for driverless cars need to recognize objects no less quickly and effectively as the human brain can. The technology has the potential to to dramatically reduce road danger. The World Health Organisation estimates that over one million people are killed each year on the roads.

Engineers at the University of California recently demonstrated a pedestrian detection system that performs in near real-time. The film below demonstrates how a driverless car detects pedestrians on urban roads.

The advent of autonomous cars has the potential to reduce congestion, emissions, fuel costs and, most importantly, road deaths.

Road traffic collisions are the number one cause of death globally among those aged 15-29 years – If autonomous car technology can bring an end to this senseless carnage, it cannot come soon enough.

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