One of the obstacles for The future is completely autonomous are the roads that autonomous vehicles would theoretically drive. Cameras and sensors use painted lane markings to help them determine the path and help cars stay in their respective lanes. If you’ve ever driven a car with some degree of lane keeping or lane keeping assist, you may have noticed that without any lane markings, the system becomes relatively useless.
So, how do you improve the situation so that you can use the driver assistance features in more situations? The answer is relatively simple in concept. Road operators need to better maintain our roads and pay attention to driver assistance features. Honda knows this too, and it invented a system to help road operators do exactly that.
The Honda Research Institute is officially starting a road condition monitoring test program. What does it mean? This means that Honda has devised a program to run in its cars to continuously monitor and evaluate lane marking conditions. Using GPS, sensors and cameras, the cars in Honda’s test program drive around and collect data on the state of our lane markings. Specifically, the program will assess Ohio’s status. Honda has yet to say whether it will expand the program beyond Ohio, but if successful, we don’t see why it couldn’t expand.
Honda will use four levels of lane marking: green, yellow, gray and red. Green and yellow mean “ideal to good.” Gray means no marks and red means “needs repair.” The chart is paired with latitude and longitude data, video clips and images. It is all then sent to the Ohio Department of Transportation, and then we can hope the government decides to fix which areas need repair. Of course, our faith in the road operators to keep the roads right in this country isn’t absolute, but at least Ohio will know better what to do.
“High-accuracy, real-time road data collected from connected vehicles has the potential to improve identification, reporting, and reporting,” said Paritosh Kelkar, a scientist at Honda Research. report and repair dangerous road conditions faster”.
In addition to reporting lane conditions to Ohio, the system is capable of reporting warnings to other Honda vehicles. In theory, your Honda could access real-time lane marking data using your internet connection and GPS coordinates and warn you when a poor line segment is about to appear, prompting you to get all the way back. control from the lane tracking system.
Finally, Honda revealed that it could expand the program to “monitor other types of road conditions.” What those other conditions are, we don’t know yet.
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