This Self-Driving Truck Is Built to Be . . . Crashed Into"
Construction zones represent some of the most dangerous stretches of road in the country, with heightened risks of crashes and deaths. Autonomous vehicles may initially heighten the risks for occupants and construction crews alike, as their sensors attempt to navigate through ever-changing traffic patterns, inconsistent lane markings, and crowds of orange barrels?it’s one of the toughest artificial-intelligence tasks that autonomous cars will have to learn. But a new demonstration is showing that autonomous technology also holds the potential to keep construction crews safer, almost immediately.
Officials with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) showed off that potential earlier this month, unveiling an impact-protection vehicle designed to provide a buffer between workers and traffic in construction zones. Ordinarily, such vehicles are driven by workers who are in turn susceptible to being injured in crashes. But autonomous operation would allow them to be removed from harm?s way. ?What I care about is a future with a vision of vehicles that don?t crash, and in particular don?t crash into a vehicle that has one of our men or women in it,? CDOT director Shailen Bhatt said while showcasing the autonomous protection vehicle in Fort Collins, Colorado. ?Everybody is excited by connected and autonomous vehicles. This is not a Tesla?you won?t order one of these. But my prediction is all state DOTs will soon use technologies like this.?
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