{"id":173702,"date":"2021-04-06T14:02:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T12:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=173702"},"modified":"2021-04-06T14:02:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T12:02:25","slug":"motor-transport-institute-investigated-how-weather-conditions-affect-autonomous-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/motor-transport-institute-investigated-how-weather-conditions-affect-autonomous-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor Transport Institute investigated how weather conditions affect autonomous vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Not only drivers have a harder time driving during rainfall.\u00a0It turns out that artificial intelligence also has problems with driving in such conditions. It is a conclusion of the research carried out by the Motor Transport Institute (ITS) and carried out under the project &#8220;AV-PL-ROAD &#8211; Polish road to road transport automation&#8221; in collaboration with Ministry of Infrastructure and the Warsaw University of Technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The artificial intelligence system tries to track and predict what other computer-driven or human-driven cars will do.\u00a0This does not mean, however, that in rain or snow, smart vehicles with all extensive electronics, will cope better than the average human driver &#8211; claims Prof.\u00a0Marcin \u015al\u0119zak, ITS director. He adds that difficult weather conditions are an additional challenge for smart AI vehicles, as well as for people.\u00a0This is caused by the distortion in\u00a0the functioning of LIDAR (the most accurate laser sensor on board a self-driving car) and less accurate radars and cameras due to bad weather conditions.\u00a0This is why most road tests of such vehicles are carried out in sunny places, e.g.\u00a0in\u00a0California, Arizona or\u00a0Texas &#8211; notes Prof.\u00a0\u015al\u0119zak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only drivers have a harder time driving during rainfall.\u00a0It turns out that artificial intelligence also has problems with driving in such conditions. It is a conclusion of the research carried out by the Motor Transport Institute (ITS) and carried out under the project &#8220;AV-PL-ROAD &#8211; Polish road to road transport automation&#8221; in collaboration with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}