2 days agoVolvo, “in trouble” with kangaroos (Video)
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Swedish automaker Volvo announced that its system for detecting large animals in vehicles without drivers can investigate and avoid cables on the road, but the first tests indicate there are problems with kangaroos. Automatic car is not able to detect kangaroos because of the jumps that “make” [...]
The director of the Volvo company in Australia, Kevin McCann, said that until the discovery has come into the framework of development of technology without rowing and that the problem will be solved by 2020, when the auto vehicle of this company will go on sale, Kosovo Press broadcasts.
This is developmental technology. We are developing the automobile, which will also recognize the kangaroo”, he said.
Volvo's technical director in Australia, David Piquet, said earlier about ABC that problems have been presented after the site's detection system uses the surface of the land as a reference point, but because of the kangaroo dances they cannot appreciate its distance from vehicles.
When the kangaroo is in the air, it looks like it's further away, and when it dances it seems to be closer to”, he said.
The detection system has been invented in Sweden, where it is tested in the karo fields, but during trials in Australia, they discovered the tin problem. Kangaroos are participants of about 90 percent of Australia's animal vehicle matches, writes Guardian. / KP/
