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  2. Impact of self-driving cars - Wikipedia

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    The implementation of autonomous vehicles with rescue, emergency response, and military applications has already led to a decrease in deaths. [citation needed] Military personnel use autonomous vehicles to reach dangerous and remote places on earth to deliver fuel, food and general supplies and even rescue people. In addition, a future ...

  3. Guidance, navigation, and control - Wikipedia

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    Guidance, navigation and control (abbreviated GNC, GN&C, or G&C) is a branch of engineering dealing with the design of systems to control the movement of vehicles, especially, automobiles, ships, aircraft, and spacecraft. In many cases these functions can be performed by trained humans.

  4. Autobesity - Wikipedia

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    Autobesity, also known as car bloat and truck bloat, is the trend, beginning in about the 1990s, [3] of cars increasing in average size and weight. [4] [5] The average weight of cars sold in Europe increased by 21% between 2001 and 2022. [6] In the U.S., SUVs and pickup trucks comprised more than 75% of new sales in 2024 compared to 38% in 2009 ...

  5. Vehicular ad hoc network - Wikipedia

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    Electronic brake lights, which would allow a driver (or an autonomous car or truck) to react to vehicles braking even though they might be obscured (e.g., by other vehicles). Platooning , which would allow vehicles to closely (down to a few inches) follow a leading vehicle by wirelessly receiving acceleration and steering information, thus ...

  6. Why GM pulled the plug on Cruise after spending $10 billion ...

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    Saber Fallah, professor of safe AI and autonomy and director of the Connected Autonomous Vehicle Research Lab at the UK's Surrey University, told Business Insider that Cruise had moved too quickly ...

  7. Vehicle-to-everything - Wikipedia

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    Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) describes wireless communication between a vehicle and any entity that may affect, or may be affected by, the vehicle. Sometimes called C-V2X , it is a vehicular communication system that is intended to improve road safety and traffic efficiency while reducing pollution and saving energy.

  8. Vehicular automation - Wikipedia

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    A self-driving Uber car accident in 2018 is an example of autonomous vehicle accidents that are also listed among self-driving car fatalities. A report made by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) showed that the self-driving Uber car was unable to identify the victim in a sufficient amount of time for the vehicle to slow down and ...

  9. Automotive navigation system - Wikipedia

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    Many vehicle manufacturers offer a satellite navigation device as an option in their vehicles. Customers whose vehicles did not ship with GNSS can therefore purchase and retrofit the original factory-supplied GNSS unit. In some cases this can be a straightforward "plug-and-play" installation if the required wiring harness is already present in ...