Imagine, you are sitting in a self-made taxi, suddenly power outages and traffic signals in your area are no longer functioning. In order to keep everything moving, traffic officers arrive at the intersection, requesting vehicles with human drivers to move without much difficulty.
But your swak driver stopped. Because the situation makes the car system confused. That's where Phantom Auto comes in. The company based in Mountain View, California is looking to put people behind the wheel of a swak driver.
Phantom Auto wants to be a backup system for autonomous vehicles. When the driver's car becomes confused or problematic, the trained driver from the company takes over the car until the steering system to control it remotely. For the man behind the call center, the place looks a bit like a driving simulator. For people in the car, the redundancy (especially for some early users), can ease the minds of those who are worried.
When tested, the car is controlled remotely in Mountain View. While seated in a specially-fitted Lincoln MKZ passenger seat, Ben Shukman, a trained Phantom One driver controlled the car and drove up the Silicon Valley streets. At one point, the car needs to get out of the parking lot, across three lanes of traffic on a busy road and turn left.
Shai Magzimof, founder and CEO of Phantom Auto who sits in the driver's seat, also took over the wheel. But after a while Shukman pulled him and the car was on the right track, blinking flashing without the help of anyone actually in the vehicle.
"You can try to replicate as many as you want in the simulation, but real-world cases are almost impossible to imitate," said Magzimof, quoted by Engadget, Friday (6/4).
Cases of accidents that keep the team driving autonomously at night and make services like Phantom Auto very important for the future of driving. The company has a driver in Mountain View who controls the car for 550 miles in Vegas. The only limiting factor is bandwidth and Phantom Auto assures them of using multiple carriers at once, so being in the dead zone will not be a problem.
It also helps companies exit and collect data points (such as bandwidth and latency) for each latitude and longitude tracked within a geofenced area. Since autonomous vehicles will be placed as taxis and will be limited to certain areas or routes, the Phantom Auto mapping system makes sense.
Although not particularly concerned with dead zones, as most systems will be in urban areas, companies are hoping for a 5G deployment that should include more areas and reduce latency. Magzimof will not share certain speed figures, but says the system is facing less than a hundred millisecond latency.
The clarity of the video from the camera car does look impressive and it seems to be no problem during the demo drive. But the company warned this only to take over confused cars, and ping their call center filled by trained drivers, not for emergency situations.
For example, if one of these cars is on the highway with a speed of 70 miles per hour and suddenly something falls from a truck that confuses the car, Phantom Auto can not help you. He hopes to take over this vehicle within 30 seconds at most. Not really able to keep you out of danger in a terrible emergency.
But your swak driver stopped. Because the situation makes the car system confused. That's where Phantom Auto comes in. The company based in Mountain View, California is looking to put people behind the wheel of a swak driver.
Phantom Auto wants to be a backup system for autonomous vehicles. When the driver's car becomes confused or problematic, the trained driver from the company takes over the car until the steering system to control it remotely. For the man behind the call center, the place looks a bit like a driving simulator. For people in the car, the redundancy (especially for some early users), can ease the minds of those who are worried.
When tested, the car is controlled remotely in Mountain View. While seated in a specially-fitted Lincoln MKZ passenger seat, Ben Shukman, a trained Phantom One driver controlled the car and drove up the Silicon Valley streets. At one point, the car needs to get out of the parking lot, across three lanes of traffic on a busy road and turn left.
Shai Magzimof, founder and CEO of Phantom Auto who sits in the driver's seat, also took over the wheel. But after a while Shukman pulled him and the car was on the right track, blinking flashing without the help of anyone actually in the vehicle.
"You can try to replicate as many as you want in the simulation, but real-world cases are almost impossible to imitate," said Magzimof, quoted by Engadget, Friday (6/4).
Cases of accidents that keep the team driving autonomously at night and make services like Phantom Auto very important for the future of driving. The company has a driver in Mountain View who controls the car for 550 miles in Vegas. The only limiting factor is bandwidth and Phantom Auto assures them of using multiple carriers at once, so being in the dead zone will not be a problem.
It also helps companies exit and collect data points (such as bandwidth and latency) for each latitude and longitude tracked within a geofenced area. Since autonomous vehicles will be placed as taxis and will be limited to certain areas or routes, the Phantom Auto mapping system makes sense.
Although not particularly concerned with dead zones, as most systems will be in urban areas, companies are hoping for a 5G deployment that should include more areas and reduce latency. Magzimof will not share certain speed figures, but says the system is facing less than a hundred millisecond latency.
The clarity of the video from the camera car does look impressive and it seems to be no problem during the demo drive. But the company warned this only to take over confused cars, and ping their call center filled by trained drivers, not for emergency situations.
For example, if one of these cars is on the highway with a speed of 70 miles per hour and suddenly something falls from a truck that confuses the car, Phantom Auto can not help you. He hopes to take over this vehicle within 30 seconds at most. Not really able to keep you out of danger in a terrible emergency.
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