Eight years from now, you may be able to buy a highly-automated Honda vehicle that can drive you around most of the time.
The automaker on Wednesday said it's targeting 2025 for the introduction of vehicles with "SAE level 4" automated driving systems. The SAE International standard defines automated driving based on six levels of capability, ranging from zero (no automation) to 5 (full automation). Level 4 (high automation) means the vehicle can handle all driving tasks in most situations, with possible exceptions during inclement weather or unusual driving environments, where a driver would be required to take over.
Honda previously announced its intention to introduce vehicles with highly-automated freeway driving capability (SAE level 3) by 2020. In a news release, Honda said these goals are "critical steps" in its "commitment to contribute to a collision-free society."
"We are striving to provide our customers with a sense of confidence and trust by offering automated driving that will keep vehicles away from any dangerous situation and that will not make people around the vehicle feel unsafe," Honda President and CEO Takahiro Hachigo said at a Wednesday media briefing in Japan.
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The company at the event showed off its automated vehicle technologies in freeway and urban driving scenarios.
Honda conducted the freeway demo on a closed test course using a vehicle equipped with an "advanced suite of sensors," including multiple cameras, five LiDAR (light detections and ranging) sensors, and five radar sensors. The company showed how the vehicle can drive itself on the freeway, even with other cars on the road.
In the urban driving demo, Honda offered a look at its latest generation artificial intelligence technology with deep learning capability, which can "sense and respond to complex driving environments and situations, such as roads without proper lane markings," the company said. "The system also can detect pedestrians and bicyclists at night with only partial visibility." It also gets smarter over time, and "improve its ability to predict an outcome" based on what's happened in the past.
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