A Survey on Autonomous Vehicles

Abstract

Autonomous vehicles are the group of vehicles that do not or partially need a human driver to drive them. So, they are also known as driverless or robotic vehicles. Despite the name or group or size of vehicles, the purpose behind the technology is same. Besides the rapid development in technology of autonomous vehicles, the experiments have been started in early 1920 and due to lack of highly powerful computing devices, they were just controlled by radio wave technologies popularly known as remotes. Then, later on, the research and development took its speed in 1950 with the development of computers. But, nowadays with the development of highly powerful and cost-efficient computing hardware GPU the enhancement in technology becomes so rapid that it is updating day by day and becoming capable of concurring every aspect of human drivers’ skills. AI and Machine Learning algorithms are being developed to train the model for autonomous driving over huge amount of recorded driving data of human drivers. As the time goes on these models started mimicking drivers’ behavior and improves it day by day. So, as these Autonomous driving getting normalize and passing various parameters for driving the automobile industries saw a large potential for business and profit in autonomous vehicles leading the giant companies (Waymo Google, Tesla, Volvo, Renault, Uber, Toyota, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, General Motors, Bosch and Continental's motors) started developing Level-3 Autonomous vehicles and released in 2020. By the rigorous development and solving challenges, autonomous vehicles are becoming our irreplaceable need for future.