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The sensors: radar, camera and sonar, collect | The sensors: radar, camera and sonar, collect images of the environment around the car. The software and AI components synthesise this information and create a map of the situation at an instant in time (similar to the ëmapí that the brain generates when you open your eyes). This ëmapí includes estimates of the speed and direction of other moving objects, captures static signs any safety cautions and incorporates the carís own trajectory. Then the software models the passage of time and assesses what the new ëmapí would look like in half a second, 1 second, 5, 10 etc and makes decisions based on its goals. | ||
This system is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is emulating the functions of the driverís brain. It has nothing to do with magnets and it certainly wasnít available in the 1960s. These specifications and capabilities are nothing like William Branhamís ideas of how self-driving cars would work but if he was really prophesying, they could have been! | This system is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is emulating the functions of the driverís brain. It has nothing to do with magnets and it certainly wasnít available in the 1960s. These specifications and capabilities are nothing like William Branhamís ideas of how self-driving cars would work but if he was really prophesying, they could have been! | ||
William | William Branham's vision was of a self-driving plastic bubble-topped car running down a beautiful highway could have been something like this: | ||
[[Image:1957 driverless cars paleo-future big.jpg|thumb|250px|Newsweek Magazine – Dec. 17, 1956 (click on picture to zoom in)]] | |||
This picture appeared in Newsweek Magazine 17th December 1956. But in fact, the vision as stated in the sermons from 1953 right up to 1958 did not include self-driving at all. They talked of cars becoming more and more egg shaped. In 1958 we find the first mention of a ëremote controlí car and over the next few years we find more references and a fuller description of the car. This vision is more about the egg shape of cars than it is about the driving technology. (in this picture the dotted lines overlay the controllers that keep the cars going straight!) | This picture appeared in Newsweek Magazine 17th December 1956. But in fact, the vision as stated in the sermons from 1953 right up to 1958 did not include self-driving at all. They talked of cars becoming more and more egg shaped. In 1958 we find the first mention of a ëremote controlí car and over the next few years we find more references and a fuller description of the car. This vision is more about the egg shape of cars than it is about the driving technology. (in this picture the dotted lines overlay the controllers that keep the cars going straight!) | ||
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He had no right to say these things and no right to mislead people about the fulfilment of one of the visions. | He had no right to say these things and no right to mislead people about the fulfilment of one of the visions. | ||
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