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During a recent trip to London, I had a great meal of fish and chips. That isn’t unusual on its own—I always love to eat some when I’m in the UK. But how I got to the restaurant was a first to me.
I rode to the chip shop in an autonomous vehicle made by Wayve, a company with a fairly novel approach to self-driving cars. It’s hard to imagine a more challenging environment for an AV than downtown London. The car I was in had to dodge pedestrians, cyclists, and a lot of traffic on its way to our lunch. (Don’t worry: We had a safety driver in the car ready to grab the wheel if needed.)
While a lot of AVs can only navigate on streets that have been loaded into their system, the Wayve vehicle can drive anywhere a human can drive. The company uses AI and deep learning techniques to teach their cars how to respond in real time to their surroundings.
Wayve is one of many companies trying different approaches to AVs, and their vehicles are still in the testing phase. While it’s too soon to tell which approaches will ultimately be the most successful, I believe we’ll reach a tipping point with autonomous vehicles within the next decade. You can read more on my blog about what I think will happen once we have a truly self-driving car.
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