I could
still remember the day I watch the iRobot as a teen, and being skeptical
about my brother’s statement that one day, the driverless car will
become reality. And it’s now a reality, made possible by… a search
engine company, Google.
While the data source is still a secret
recipe, the Google driverless car is powered by artificial
intelligence that utilizes the input from the video cameras inside the
car, a sensor on the vehicle’s top, and some
radar and position sensors attached to different positions of the car.
Sounds like a lot of effort to mimic the human intelligence in a car,
but so far the system has successfully driven 1609 kilometres without
human commands!
“You can count on one hand the number of years
it will take before ordinary people can experience this.” Google
co-founder, Sergey Brin said. However, innovation is an achievement,
consumerization is the headache, as Google currently face the challenge
to forge the system into an affordable gem that every worker with an
average salary could benefit from.

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