{"id":869,"date":"2016-04-06T05:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T05:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2016-04-06T05:47:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T05:47:43","slug":"self-driving-cars-confused-by-some-u-s-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/self-driving-cars-confused-by-some-u-s-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Driving Cars Confused By Some U.S. Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Google_self-driving_car_in_Mountain_View.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-684\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Google_self-driving_car_in_Mountain_View-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Google_self-driving_car_in_Mountain_View\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Google_self-driving_car_in_Mountain_View-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Google_self-driving_car_in_Mountain_View.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Autonomous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">vehicles<\/a> struggle to cope with shabby U.S. roads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Self-driving vehicles might not be ready by 2020 and this was made more than evident\u00a0when Volvo semi-autonomous prototype refused to drive itself during a press event at the Los Angeles Auto Show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It can&#8217;t find the lane markings!&#8221; <!--more-->said Volvo&#8217;s\u00a0North American CEO Lex Kerssemakers, as he was frustrated by the company&#8217;s self-driving prototype&#8217;s confusion. Kerssemakers added: &#8220;You need to paint the bloody roads here!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Autonomous cars use cameras, radars and lasers \u2014 all known as sensors \u2014 as their eyes and ears to collect data via artificial intelligence software. Shoddy infrastructure has become one of the big hurdles to the development of autonomous vehicles forcing the automakers to add more sophisticated sensors and maps to their self-driving cars to compensate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the lane fades, vehicles know how to handle \u201cthese weird circumstances\u201d and they \u201chave three different ways of doing things in case one fails\u201d, according to Christoph Mertz, a research scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even Tesla CEO Elon Musk has recently admitted to the great challenge that is ahead of the autonomous-vehicle development. He called faded lane markings &#8220;crazy&#8221; complaining they confused his self-driving cars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poor markings and uneven signage are found throughout three million miles of paved roads in the United States. They are only putting more pressure on tech companies and automakers in the development of autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Transportation Department\u00a0estimated\u00a0only a few months ago that 65 percent of United States roads and 69 percent of California roads were\u00a0in \u201cpoor \u00a0or mediocre condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Boston Consulting Group\u00a0autonomous car manufacturers\u00a0will spend more than $1 billion over the next several years in research investment for even more sophisticated autonomous features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autonomous vehicles struggle to cope with shabby U.S. roads. Self-driving vehicles might not be ready by 2020 and this was made more than evident\u00a0when Volvo semi-autonomous prototype refused to drive itself during a press event at the Los Angeles Auto &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/self-driving-cars-confused-by-some-u-s-roads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,32],"tags":[34,58,25,10,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}