Virtual pedestrians pave way to safer roads for driverless cars

A 'virtual human' suddenly steps out at a blind bend, but the engineer...

GOTHENBURG - A “virtual human” suddenly steps out at a blind bend, but the engineer in the Volvo car’s driving seat on the test track doesn’t flinch, leaving it to software to take evasive action.

Automakers and technology companies are locked in a race to bring these vehicles into commercial use by 2022, but their efforts on public roads stumbled last year when an Uber test car hit and killed a pedestrian. “The industry ... has really been made to do one more loop ... not only make the end product safe enough but also make the testing secure,” Nobelius said from the backseat of the autonomous Volvo car at AstaZero’s track.

“In this kind of environment we’re able to test more or less what we need for public roads later on,” Lars-Gunnar Hedström, Scania’s engineering director at connected and autonomous systems, told Reuters. This data, CEO Peter Janevik says, is essential because people’s behavior in traffic differs across countries.

A Volvo car tests its co-developed Zenuity software at the autonomous vehicle testing facility AstaZero on the outskirts of Boras, near Gothenburg, Sweden February 22, 2019. REUTERS/Esha Vaish

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