Every substance affects only itself, but all the substances (both bodies and minds) in the world nevertheless seem to causally interact with each other because they have been programmed by God in advance to "harmonize" with each other.
It was in 1912 that the American inventor Elmer Ambrose Sperry and the German physicist Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe proposed a system that would allow any moving vehicle to maintain a certain course. Its operation was based on connecting one or more gyroscopes and a compass to the control elements of the vehicle in question. The new system achieved immediate worldwide renown thanks to its installation and use on several dozen U.S. Navy ships. And it was Elmer Ambrose Sperry’s son, Lawrence Sperry, a great aviation enthusiast, who led the task of making a lighter model of the device, and adapting it for installation in an aircraft.
A Brief History of Autonomous Vehicle Technology
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Self-driving cars are poised to revolutionize the transportation industry. There have been many significant shifts in the auto industry since the beginning of commercial auto production roughly eight decades ago, but the basic formula of a human operator guiding a vehicle using a steering wheel and pedals has held pretty steady across that time span. That's changing quickly. Newer cars already have automated features for things like parking and collision detection, and auto and tech companies are hard at work to deliver vehicles that are capable of advanced navigation without input from a human driver.
Automated driving systems (ADS) for cars, trucks, and vans are on the way and set to bring some huge changes and opportunities. Newer cars already feature machine-corrective and machine-assisted technologies like lane correction, potential collision detection, and automated parking. Some cars from manufacturers including Tesla and Audi include semi-autonomous driving features that fall in the Level 3-functionality tier.
Some reports and experts suggest that ADS vehicles are already safer than human-operated vehicles when it comes to performing some driving functions. Self-driving cars don't suffer from sleep deprivation, and they can't drive under the influence of drugs or alcohol. They also have wider fields of vision and are designed to obey traffic laws, while human drivers will sometimes disregard laws or fail to follow them due to being distracted. Self-driving technology has the potential to reduce crashes.