Autonomous mining equipment years ahead of car development

摘要

A rich assortment of technologies is available to autonomous vehicle designers-radar, GPS, GNSS, LiDAR, ultrasonic, infrared, and video. The suitability of each depends on the vehicle's surroundings. Although some driverless-car development programs, such as Alphabet's Waymo (formerly Google's self-driving car project), have accumulated years of actual on-the-road test data, a number of obstacles to deployment remain. In addition to legal restrictions and cost, the variability of the operating environment continues to challenge current sensors and algorithms.