DRIVSCO
Florentin Wörgötter and his colleagues have now created a prototype vehicle which can actually learn how to drive. DRIVSCO, which is an EU-funded research program, is a system that follows a driver’s every move then matches those actions with what it “sees” down the road and then learns how that driver usually handles the situation such as upcoming curves or other vehicles ahead.
“What we wanted was a system that learns to drive during the day by correlating what it sees with the actions a driver takes, then at night the system could say, ‘Slow down, a curve is coming up!’ – a curve the human didn’t see. Now we have a prototype that does this.”, says Wörgötter.
The prototype has infrared headlights, stereo cameras, and advanced visual processing the system which enables it to see better at night than the human eyes can. With these features, it can provide early warnings of danger to a human driver that he had not yet seen or reacted to.
Click here to read more about DRIVSCO.
