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The American carmaker Ford wants to combine autonomous cars and drones to offer better guidance, especially in areas badly or not mapped or affected by a disaster, said one of its officials.
According to Alan Hall, spokesperson for Ford’s technology department, the idea of combining the two came from a brainstorming session between researchers and engineers working on Ford’s own vehicles. It has since been the subject of a patent filed with the US Patent Office (USPTO).
The system uses drones launched from an autonomous vehicle and which map the environment of the vehicle and then transmit it to the sensors that are installed on it.
Pieter Gillegot-Vergauwen, Vice President for Product Management of Dutch TomTom GPS manufacturer, told a Microsoft seminar in Detroit, Michigan, North, that his group was working on the development of standalone vehicle mapping Both in urban areas and on roads.
“People will want to go with their own cars in the woods or in the wild and the drones will be able to guide them,” Hall said.
Ford and the Chinese manufacturer of drones DJI recently organized a contest to determine if a drone could take off from a vehicle and go back while the vehicle was in motion. The idea was to see if a drone could use its cameras to guide a vehicle to and from an area affected by a disaster and where roads are impassable.
Such a function would be particularly useful for emergency response vehicles, he said.
One of the ten engineers in the competition was successful, Hall said, adding that the set could also be combined with infrared technologies to operate in the dark.
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