Click on the image to watch a video on audi autopilot The Audi initiative for a responsable use of new technological developments such as autonomous driving and artificial intelligence. Audi Autopilot, a driverless future for Relaxed driving, more road safety, less congestion and environmental impact: Autonomous driving, thanks to its many advantages, is one of the most important fields of development at Audi. Over 15 years of ongoing research and testing are continuously incorporated into series development.
Of all the luxury car brands, Audi has been the most aggressive in terms of putting semi-autonomous technology into its production cars. Now the German automaker is offering a sneak peek of its effort to build fully driverless cars, as well as one of the partners it says will be instrumental in putting self-driving cars on the road by 2021. Like most AV programs, the Audi division uses software and deep learning-based approaches to process all the sensing data picked up by its suite of sensors, such as LIDAR point clouds, camera pixels, and radar echoes. This perception data models the vehicle’s environment, both near and far, by detecting objects, vehicles, pedestrians, and other challenging obstacles. That said, Audi is not as far ahead as other automakers in developing and deploying automated vehicles. Waymo, the self-driving division of Alphabet, just launched a very limited commercial robot taxi service outside of Phoenix, Arizona. GM says it will unveil its own ride-hailing service in San Francisco in 2019. Audi is aiming to deploy its robot taxis at scale in 2021, the same year targeted by Ford for its service.
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