It won\u2019t be too long before you get a chance to ride a public bus that drives by itself. Yes, that day is nearing, when the vehicles would be programmed to help you reach your destinations safely, sans a driver. The high-tech software would soon replace drivers, says Robin North, who is developing a technology that could control vehicles from the base.<\/p>\n
North is joined by three other engineers to help Immense Simulations blossom from its British government funded research group. Currently, they are selling technology that can control thousands of\u00a0 driver-less vehicles at one go. North points out that such fleets would be \u201cstrategically autonomous\u201d as they will be synched to a huge network system.<\/p>\n
Immense Simulations is presently aiming at traditional vehicle operators, city authorities like Transport for London and other new firms who are interested in trying a hand in the fledgling industry. The software is fired up by a Cloud-based, simulation platform from a London startup named Improbable. This platform is capable of supporting large-scale, detailed simulation of cities, which allows Immense to determine how vehicles would react to weather changes and other factors on the road, including pedestrians, animals and other vehicles.<\/p>\n
Immense got onboard with Improbable when the startup launched its Spatial operating system platform to early clients, which mainly included game developers. The four-membered team put together the concept in the early 2015, under the tutelage of the British Transport System\u2019s Catapult network.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis stuff is going to be really important to companies like Uber and Lyft in the future,\u201d says Herman Narula, who co-founded Improbable. \u201cIt\u2019s not enough to get the cars driving themselves. You need to think about the problem of large-scale fleets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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