Autonomous driving & egrave; a sector on which many companies are working. More times we have talked about the progress made by reality; like Mobileye, Argo AI and many others. Now, in this scenario fits & quot; Social Self Driving & quot ;. It is an Italian startup born from an idea of Luigi Mazzola who has a very long past with Scuderia Ferrari (20 years and 14 World Championships). This new reality will begin in the coming weeks the first round of financing and the development of the project that will be able to count on an exclusive patent.
THE PROJECT
The startup is developing a system capable of record the driver's driving style and have it reproduced on self-driving or semi-autonomous cars. Basically, it will be; You can set up a personalized driving profile to match that of a person. Driver parameters will be recorded, such as how to tackle curves, how to manage gear changes and much more. Once the driving style is been saved, will be able to be used by car. But there is much more.
The most great news & egrave; that all the driving styles that will be stored can then be shared externally, allowing them to be used by other users on other vehicles equipped with the & rsquo; app & ldquo; Social Self Driving & rdquo;. It will be therefore it is possible to create a sort of online store where car manufacturers, professional drivers, safe driving instructors, expert motorists and public figures will be able to market their own personalized driving programs, their own driving profiles .
The system relies on the following hardware and software equipment already; normally present on vehicles with different levels of assisted or autonomous driving and integrates them. Steering angle, torque applied to the steering, speed sensors of steering, of action on the accelerator and brake pedals, of yaw, roll and pitch angles, of lateral and longitudinal acceleration. To the sensors is added the software for processing visual signals, sonar and radar that allows these vehicles to understand the surrounding environmental situation. By recording the data carried out on these sensors, a driving style is profiled. The driver of the self-driving or semi-autonomous vehicle will be able to then set up this driving profile.
The system & egrave; was patented on April 22 last. Potentially, on paper, this is an interesting idea. We will see how it will evolve; this project. Among the co-founders of the startup also Guido Ciapponi and Francesco Zanazzi . Luigi Mazzola, comments on this; this new solution for autonomous driving:
With Social Self Driving we can customize our self-driving car and teach it to behave as if we were driving. Or we could have them replicate the driving style of our idol and car manufacturers, professional drivers, safe driving instructors, well-known personalities and social influencers can create and review their own personalized driving programs and promote them directly in & ldquo; Social Self Driving & rdquo; for immediate download in the system, like any App.
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