BMW,as we all know belongs to the elite family of cars and everyone wants to have it at any cost just by seeing its looks and other fantastic features that encircles it.When you think about autonomous
cars, it is often in reference to the sensor technology making the car aware of objects and other vehicles around it. At CES 2014, BMW
showed off another key technology to make autonomous cars a reality, the
systems needed to steer, accelerate, and brake.
The most amazing part of the demonstration was the wet corner. To show
the system's car control, BMW turned off the vehicle stability systems.
As the car hit the wet, it lost grip and went into a sideways slide. The
system counter-steered to prevent the car from doing a 180, keeping the
slide under control until the car was back on dry pavement.
t may seem like cheating that, for this demonstration, BMW programmed
the car's route in through GPS, which gave it the path around the track.
But all the car control was handled by automated systems using sensors
and an accelerometer to see how close the car was to losing grip,
braking or steering to maintain its path.
Huber said that, before the introduction of a fully autonomous vehicle,
BMW would use this type of research to add features under what it calls
Highly Automated Driving.
