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.
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.
