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Augmented Reality (AR) Making Inroads for AI Driverless Car Reality
Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider
When I was initially showing my teenagers how to drive a car, we would go over to the local mall after-hours and use the nearly empty parking lot as an area to do some test driving. Round and round we would go, circling throughout the vast parking lot. Having a novice teenage driver at the wheel can be rather chilling due to their newness at steering and guiding a multi-ton vehicle that can readily crash into things. Fortunately, the parking lot had very few obstacles and so the need to be especially accurate in where the car went was not as crucial in comparison to being on a conventional street (or, imagine being in the mall during open hours, which we later tried too, and it was a near heart attack kind of moment).
Once they got comfortable with driving any which way in the empty mall parking lot, I would up the game by asking them to pretend that there were cars in the parking stalls. Each stall was marked by white painted lines on the asphalt, so it was relatively easy to imagine where the parked cars would be. While driving up and down the rows of pretend parked cars, if they veered over a painted white line, I’d then tell them that they just hit a car. At first, I was repeatedly having to say this. Hey, you just hit a Volvo. Ouch, you just rammed into a Mercedes. And…
