Since spring, Volkswagen is driving through Hamburg with automated e-Golfs and is now drawing its first conclusions.
Five automated e-Golfs go by Hamburgwhere a test field pulls right through the city. Well could Volkswagen Report that the vehicles have always behaved correctly. Even in complex traffic scenarios, the vehicles were convincing.
Automated eGolf
The research results that have been collected in Hamburg will be transferred to the newly founded company VWAT flow into it, so its boss Alexander Hitzinger. The output goal is a commercialization of technology from the middle of the next decade.
The autonomous e-Golfs can predict traffic behavior over a period of ten seconds, based on experience in the test field. This reduced the reaction time and one could anticipate the dangers. These included vehicles with excessive speed, wrong-parked vehicles, red light defying foot traffic or cyclists on the wrong track.
The traffic forecast allows different approaches Artificial Intelligence, which were used in Hamburg and come from the home Volkswagen.
About David Fluhr
I’ve been writing about Autonomous & Connected Driving since 2011 and also talk about it on other sites like the Smart Mobility Hub. I studied social sciences at the HU Berlin and since 2012 I am a freelance journalist. Contact: mail@autonomes-fahren.de