VIRTUAL CO-DRIVER RESEARCH TO BOOST IN-CAR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London A CAR that can think for its driver is a step nearer reality, thanks to a new European Union (EU)-funded project now underway in Switzerland. The 10-partner BACS (Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems) project, co-ordinated by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is creating thinking robots that can react in the right way to incomplete information, in the same way that humans and animals do. Its studies are planned to run until 2010. For the automotive industry, the aim is to develop a virtual co-driver that can cope ...


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