On October 15th, 2017, at 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time, Johanna Buyyan.
[Netease smart news October 17 news] Alphabet's company Waymo is training law enforcement agencies to deal with automatic car crashes, the company has taught its car to see, listen to the siren, and then follow the instructions to stop.
What happens when an auto-driving car crashes?
Waymo, the autonomous automotive division of Alphabet, has been testing its robot fleet in the four states of the United States, including Washington, California, Arizona, and Texas. The company has begun to cooperate with local law enforcement agencies and emergency personnel to find out countermeasures and formulate new agreements after a collision accident.
This includes actions that the self-driving car should take after hearing the alarm. That's right, Waymo's self-driving car can hear the alarm. It also contains guidance on how the police and emergency personnel can approach accident vehicles in an emergency.
In a 44-page PDF report published by Waymo on Thursday, the company described in detail its handling of collisions and how to avoid them. Waymo's measures can be divided into three parts: how cars stop in unsafe working conditions, how cars respond to regular or emergency vehicles, and what happens after an accident.
Backup system
In the event of a collision or system failure, all fully autonomous driverless cars must be able to drive safely. Simply put, if a car is completely unmanned, there will be no safe driver to manually control the vehicle, so the system itself must know when to stop and make adjustments again.
And in some cases there is no need to stop. In the event of a system failure, spare sensors, computers, brakes, and power are automatically activated.
The software in the car can determine whether the sensor or other parts of the system are malfunctioning, and can also determine changes in the driving environment, such as in a snowstorm environment. This is also the event that occurred in a collision. The car will automatically detect the accident and find a place to park.
Communication after a collision
Once the car automatically detects an accident, it sends this information to the remote operations center in Waymo. The Waymo team will dispatch experts to the site as needed and will also communicate with local law enforcement agencies.
Because there is no driver and the car is equipped with related hardware and other technologies, Waymo has been conducting on-site training in the local police department of the city that is doing automatic driving tests. The company is training police and emergency personnel on how to identify and use self-driving cars.
“We plan to continue on-site training and expand the scope of our training program as our self-driving cars will become more and more powerful and the field of operational design will also expand,†the report said.
Listen to the alarm
For example, by cooperating with a police station in Chandler, Arizona, Waymo was able to train his car to make a slight stop or stop while hearing or seeing an alert. This is obviously helpful when the rescue vehicle tries to reach the scene of the accident quickly. Other cars will hear the sound of the alarm and then give them way out.
However, this is equally important when Waymo’s self-driving cars themselves fall into an accident. By using audio data, these vehicles can detect the direction of the rescue vehicle. This helps the car react efficiently and safely.
“Our sensors collect samples at different speeds, distances and angles, and build a visual and audio database to help autonomous vehicles safely respond to incoming rescue vehicles,†the report wrote.
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