Business technology website ZDNet news reported, ford's research and development of laser radar ranging (LiDAR) sensor can help owners in dark night safe driving, even if they don't drive head lamp also need not fear.

Ford was done in Arizona in the United States to carry a laser radar ranging sensor Fusion automatic driving test, and said ford Fusion hybrid could have been, "beyond human drivers limit" than a human driver driving safety index is higher in the dark.

Google a few years ago, revealed plans to research and development of self-driving cars, to the global automotive and technology companies are now in the field of exploring this huge market prospects. At this stage the vehicles are equipped with reversing camera, constant speed control, and sensors. We away from obstacles in close, these devices will be prompted to us away from dangerous, but automatic driving a car is much more advanced. According to Google and other companies, self-driving cars driving aims to reduce human error, and reduce accidents and casualties. In addition to consider the driver careless driving during the day, however, lead to the possibility of vehicle collision, developers should also consider how to make the self-driving cars under the condition of insufficient light and bad weather kept safe driving, in this way can automatic driving a car worthy of the name.

Insufficient light the situation is very common, but sometimes it can lead to fatal consequences. Last week, ford said it was focus on improve in the case of insufficient light vehicle safety. Ford's self-driving cars mainly depends on three types of sensors, radar, cameras and laser radar ranging sensors to detect road, obstacles and track vehicle location. Laser technology can emit about 2.8 million laser pulse in a second, let the car in any external conditions can have full sensor function. Self-driving cars can use these data to generate 3 d map of the surrounding environment. In the process of testing the technology, the ford engineers used night vision glasses, in the car outside the car looked at ford Fusion. They said that under the condition of driving without headlights, Fusion cars can only rely on LiDAR technology tortuous road in the dark, not a little accident.