Car Electric Travel 8000 miles without a driver

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Four electric vans without driver successfully travel 8000 miles from Italy to China. The vehicle is equipped with solar energy, to recognize that the laser scanners and video cameras to avoid obstacles and provided support.

Bbc vehicle without a driver reported that a study of the technology road safety.

The sensors are capable of vehicles to make the extreme face obstacles such as road conditions, traffic and weather.

Distance traveled from Italy to Shanghai will also be used to collect data that will be analyzed for further research. The experiment was funded by the European Research Council.

"We do not know the route, which roads are impassable, and as traffic, density, reckless drivers. We faced a lot of things," said Fred Isabella Riga, a scientist on the project engine.

Although Mobin van without a driver and a card, the researchers who have as a passenger in case if you have an emergency situation.

Passengers had to intervene several times, for example, if the vehicle is stuck in traffic in Moscow and handle payments to the highway.

The project is not using the card even though many remote areas of Siberia and China. You never cease to give you a ride a mountain climber.

Artificial system, the so-called GOLD (Generic Obstacle and Lane detector) analyzes information from sensors and automatic speed and direction.

"Control is controlled by a computer. So, the computer commands to the steering wheel. The system is to follow the path, avoid obstacles and the curve," said Alberto Broggi from VisLab at the University of Parma, Italy, the lead researcher is for the project.

"Travelling with a long walk, across two continents, by various state and weather, traffic conditions and various infrastructure, we have different circumstances to test the system," he said.

This technology will be applied in agriculture, mining and construction.

The vehicle was at a maximum speed of 38 mph run and must be recharged for eight hours after two or three hours again.

"There are some terrible moments as when the vehicle pile-up were on the back to the forefront by BUTTING affected. It happened because we stopped and forgot to turn off the system," said Fred Riga.