Computer Science And Technology Assignment

Running head: COMPUTER SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
COMPUTER SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Autonomous Cars.......................................................................................................................2
Working of Self-Driving Cars....................................................................................................3
Features of Self-Driving Cars....................................................................................................3
Impacts of Driverless-Cars.........................................................................................................5
Competitive Advantage..............................................................................................................5
Porter Five Forces......................................................................................................................6
Advantages of Driver-less Cars.................................................................................................6
Current Uses...............................................................................................................................7
Future Use..................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Technological innovation is the flourishing deployment of an idea that is technical
and new to the institution developing it. The innovations are generally distinguished from
inventions, technology and research but it can arise from any of the three. A technological
innovation that will be described in this report is driverless car.
The self-driving vehicles are the cars in which the human drivers are not needed in
order to take control in order to safely operate the vehicle. They are also called autonomous
cars, these cars integrate softwares, and sensors in order to control navigate and then drive the
car.
The report discusses about the various aspects of the autonomous cars such as the
speed, features, pricing and other aspects of the cars. The report also focuses on the future of
the driverless cars.
Autonomous Cars
An autonomous car is a vehicle that is able to sense the environment and then operate
without the involvement of the humans. A passenger is not needed in order to take control of
the autonomous vehicle at any point of time. The passenger does not need to be present in the
vehicle (Frank et al 2018). A self-driving car is also called as an autonomous car as it able to
make its own choices. The cars those are self-driving integrate a variety of sensors in order to
perceive their surroundings that include radar, lidar, sonar, GPS and many more. The control
systems those are advanced interpret the information of the sensors to recognise navigation
paths and the obstacles in their paths (Kaur and Rampersad 2018). The trucking at long
distance is adopting and deploying the technology.

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Figure 1: Self-driven Cars
Working of Self-Driving Cars
The autonomous cars mainly depend on the sensors, complex algorithms and machine
learning in order to run software. The autonomous cars develop and then maintain a map of
the surroundings those are based on large number of sensors placed at various parts of the
car. The sensors of radar administer the position of vehicles nearby. The video cameras
present in the cars detect road signs, traffic signals and look for the people in the road (Kjær
2016). The sensors of lidar bounce light pulses off the surroundings of the car in order to
measure distances, edges of road and recognise the markings of lane. The sensors of
ultrasonic detect the curbs and the various vehicles when the car is parked
The software that is sophisticated processes all the inputs of the sensors and sends
some instructions to the actuators of the car that controls the acceleration, steering, braking