The first self-driving car is being tested in Ho Chi Minh City.
The car moves at 25 km/h, automatically aligns its lane, turns along the road lines, avoids obstacles or brakes suddenly when necessary.
FPT's self-driving car is being tested.Self-driving cars developed by FPT can automatically align their lanes, turn, and identify objects on the road to automatically brake or avoid obstacles.
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A self-driving car of a group of FPT engineers just had a test run in Ho Chi Minh City. When moving, the car automatically aligns its lane, turns along the road, avoids obstacles or brakes suddenly when necessary. |
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In terms of software, the car is integrated and applies advanced technologies such as path planning, behavioral cloning, lidar, deep learning... Hardware is mainly purchased from major brands such as NVIDIA, ZED cameras or Velodyne lidar... similar to the hardware used on Tesla, Google, and Mercedes systems. |
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Without the lidar (depth detection) system, the car will make some wrong decisions because the camera cannot focus in bright sunlight, so this is a necessary detail in a self-driving car. |
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| The development team chose the Kia Soul because a foreign hacker had successfully penetrated the software and drivers of this car model. |
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| The central processing unit consists of components from NVIDIA. The lidar system costs more than 200 million VND and the ordering time is 6 months. |
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The hardware that FPT developed itself is the steering wheel control system. Initially, the research team tried to impact the motor of the electric power steering system but failed, causing the motor and the car's ECU to burn out. An engineer said that the current complex steering wheel control system is only temporary and will be simplified in the future. |
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Pham Quang Viet, head of FPT's self-driving car project, said the car's proficiency depends on the "learning" time. Normally, the data to teach a self-driving car is approximately 1 million images, equivalent to more than 100 hours of driving. Currently, FPT's self-driving car is only at self-driving level 1.0, aiming for 2.0 and 3.0 next year. |
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| The development team said they only aims to sell software for self-driving cars, not to manufacture cars. |
