Semiautonomous
system takes the wheel to keep drivers safe.
(July 13,
2012) Barrels and
cones dot an open field in Saline, Mich., forming an obstacle course for a
modified vehicle. A driver remotely steers the vehicle through the course from
a nearby location as a researcher looks on. Occasionally, the researcher
instructs the driver to keep the wheel straight — a trajectory that appears to
put the vehicle on a collision course with a barrel. Despite the driver’s
actions, the vehicle steers itself around the obstacle, transitioning control
back to the driver once the danger has passed.