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2.  An autonomous vehicle is fundamentally defined as a passenger vehicle that drives by itself. An autonomous vehicle is also referred to as an autopilot, driverless car, auto-drive car, or automated guided vehicle (AGV).

3.  The first known worthy attempt to build an autonomous vehicle was in 1977.  Another important milestone in the history of autonomous vehicles was AHS’s revolutionary demonstration made in 1997 that included more than 20 fully automated cars.  The demonstration was carried out on a California highway and completed without a glitch.

4.  Autonomous cars,these are the cars which drive themselves with out driver.  These are also called as ‘ DRIVER LESS CAR ’.  Just we load our destination in a dashboard computer.

5.  Autonomous vehicles sense the world with such techniques as laser, radar, lidar, GPS and computer vision.  The Navigation includes a Heading sensor, Velocity Sensor and a Processor.

6. The control mechanism of an autonomous car consists of three main blocks as shown in Figure 1.

7.  The vehicle transmitting system continuously provides information about its position and velocity to its participants

8.  There must be seamless integration of both lateral and longitudinal control systems.  The earliest fully autonomous system is a low speed version.  Efficient for use in highly congested traffic.

9.  Implementation of autonomous cars will allow the vehicles to be able to use the roads more efficiently.  Saving space and time.  Traffic patterns will be less problematic with the integration of autonomous cars.

10.  Better fuel economy.  Improved safety.  More efficient traffic flow.  Time savings.

11.  Expensive.  Required proper programming.  Drive only in pre defined path.

12. Currently, there are many different technologies available that can assist in creating autonomous vehicle systems. Items such as GPS, automated cruise control, and lane keeping assistance are available to consumers on some luxury vehicles. The combination of these technologies and other systems such as video based lane analysis, steering and brake actuation systems, and the programs necessary to control all of the components will become a fully autonomous system.

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