![]() The Business Of Giving Everyone AutonomyĪ Camry is pretty far from say a Mercedes S-Class which will likely be the first Level 3 vehicle to go on sale in the United States. It's doing all this in a Toyota Camry test vehicle the company has specially outfitted with hardware. When you're ready to take back over, you place your hands back on the wheel and you're in control with having to wrestle control away from the system.Ĭurrently, the Ghost OS has a basic highway pilot function and supports automated lane changes. Instead, it's there with you the whole time while on the highway and understands when you've taken your hand off the wheel. Ghost's driver assistance doesn't have that. It's to signify what mode the vehicle is in at any moment so the driver knows when they can safely take their hands off the wheel. One thing that's an issue with driver assistance systems is mode confusion, it's why Mercedes, General Motors, and BMW have lights on their steering wheels for their hands-free driver assistance features. The system is still in the testing phase so legally I was unable to get behind the wheel, but what I saw was impressive. It'll even move slightly to the inside of a curve. Instead of sticking to the center of the lane while passing a large truck, it'll move over a bit. It's just on and ready to go when you are.įor example, if everyone is doing 75 miles an hour when the speed limit is 65, the Ghost-enabled car will do 75. ![]() The goal is for your car to drive essentially the way you do and to keep up with traffic without having to enable anything. You move your foot from the accelerator or your hands from the wheel and Ghost takes over. The Ghost system is built to work with the driver in what Hayes calls “collaborative AI.”Īs you drive the system turns itself on and helps out. Usually, it's to set the adaptive cruise control and maybe there is a second control to enable the lane centering. Typically any driver assistance function requires a button to be pressed. "The base fundamental algorithm doesn't require identification to understand what's free space and what's not and that allows us to not have the risk of misidentification," Ghost Autonomy's vice-president of marketing and design, Matt Kixmoeller told. For example, an object that's roughly the shape of a human and moves at the speed of a human is probably a human and the vehicle needs to give that person a bit more space because it's a vulnerable road user. Instead of training its AI to recognize everything in the world, it just wants the system to know that something is there.įor example, instead of teaching the system to identify things like dogs, children, trees, cars, and bikes, the system just knows when it sees an object, where that thing resides in space, and if it's moving or not, and then classifies it based on where it is and how quickly it's moving. Like its hardware strategy, Ghost is also doing something a bit different with its Ghost OS software. Instead, it's banking on creating the software that uses that inexpensive sensor suite. It's merely showing what can be done with less expensive, off-the-shelf hardware so that tier-one suppliers can build the gear for automakers. But really the company is not in the business of building hardware. The goal is to get the entire camera and CPU suite to under $1,500. Instead, it's just too expensive right now. That's not to say the company is anti-LIDAR like Tesla. Ghost is also using radar, but not LIDAR. Two cameras pointed in every direction gives the system depth perception the way the two eyes in your head let you determine how far away objects are. The entire sensor package with multiple cameras creates a stereoscopic view of the world 360 degrees around the vehicle. The CPU that runs all of this, it's about $45. The CEO added that cameras are," improving at a rate that's faster than the rate that LIDAR is improving." "The only thing that people care about in the entire cell phone industry is how did you make the camera better," Hayes said.
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