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Running head:INNOVATIONS TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIETYTo: The Senior ManagerFrom: [Employee name]Date: [DD/MM/YYYY]Subject: Autonomous VehiclesNegligence of the humans are the main cause of the accidents that are taking place now aday. These accidents are the main cause behind the development of the concept of autonomousvehicles. The main reason for developing this concept is to save human lives and to make abetter plan for the future, aiming at reducing the number of accidents along with other benefits.Driving a car by the humans is not the future of the cars. Autonomous vehicles or AV are thecars that are customized for performing its operations without any human assistance.Autonomous vehicles can sense the environmental conditions along with providing assistance tothe vehicle with a proper navigation without any human interference.AV uses a number of ways of detecting the various environmental situation and thisincludes the use of different techniques like “RADAR”, “laser lights”, “GPS”, “Odometry” andthe “computers vision”. Certain navigation paths are chosen by the systems that are accurate andalso helps in detecting and avoiding the obstacles faced by the car on its path.The CEO of “QNX Software System” John Chen of Canada wants to turn the cars into acomplete autonomous vehicle by making the cars full of applications along with self-controllingof the cars. The car platform of the QNX comprises of a real-time OS. The architecture providedby the company helps many applications to run securely and simultaneously in a stable form.Thereby, helping the company to produce cars that are crash free in case of any technicalfailures. In the month of December QNX formed an centre for new innovations in the

INNOVATIONS TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIETY1autonomous vehicle in “Ottawa”. They have kept a prototype of the AV in the centre for thepurpose of testing the software’s and the new architectures related to AV. The “Ministry ofTransportation” of Ontario has given the approval to the company for the purpose of testing theautonomous vehicles on the roads of Ontario.The software required by the autonomous vehicles are very much sophisticated and aremore secure than any systems of a normal car. The main aim of the company is to produce carswith high security features aiming at dominating the future market of the cars. They are alsotaking an initiative for providing employment to the local software engineers.The CEO John Chen also stated the various obstacles that are causing problems for thedevelopment of the autonomous technology are listed below:Dependability on the softwareIn a disordered city condition the artificial intelligences are not able to function properly.Compromise of the cars computer for example the communication system that existsbetween different cars.The sensing and the navigation system of the car are susceptible to different weatherconditions or due to deliberate interference like the jamming or the spoofing.Recognition and the tracking of the large animals are needed so as to avoid them. For proper operation of this type of vehicle there is a need of high-quality specialisedmaps.The presence of competition in the radio spectrum that are needed for the carscommunication systems.

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