Driverless Vehicle

Imagine a vehicle that can drive itself by using cameras to take images of the road ahead and processing the road to be driven using a computer chip. Actually there’s no need to imagine this little modern miracle as it has already crossed the realm of science fiction into reality. The only trouble is if you want to drive this beauty, correction, get a ride on her, you will have to land on Mars first.

The space rover Curiosity can drive using its wheel system and, based on images taken by its cameras, the rover can avoid obstacles. That’s not the only cool thing that the rover can do either as you would know if you have been following its progress.

The Curiosity has a mighty powerful drill arm as well. This robotic arm can powder a rock and create mud samples that can then be then segregated for testing by different scientific instruments that are housed in the rover’s on board laboratory.

Each step in the construction of this latest rover has taken into consideration past failures and used measures to overcome them. The science project that is currently the cynosure of all eyes began on paper even before the mission was anywhere near conceptualized or approved.