![]() In Frankfurt, in nice weather, we had seen both bikers and walkers play similar games the day before, but without such abrupt results. And he was just “playing”, not a Grubhub delivery biker in NYC willing to challenge the sides, fronts and backs of buses, cars and pedestrians for a bonus dollar and adrenaline rush. A biker had run straight at it head on, taking evasive action at the last seconds, having a good laugh of having gamed the system. These particular vehicles in Frankfurt are designed for 6 seated passengers so we took our seats, our backs facing in the forward direction and within 20 seconds watched as the 3 passengers on the back seats went flying into the floor as Easy Rider slammed to a hard stop. The next day we had enough time to get in line at a pick-up spot to hitch a ride-much like waiting for a bus or train. I thought of myself in NYC or near most any city intersection, or possibly scouting a jaywalking spot, stepping off the curb to see traffic coming on, maybe to make an early crossing ahead of a light change or in hailing a taxi, and envision ADAS cars stopping dead in their tracks and getting rear ended by a live driver. An issue we saw was how the LIDAR and software behaved such that even standing on the curb in the boarding area forced Easy to stop short if we were not at least 3 feet back off the curb. Easy had banks of lights flash as a warning to on-comers if they were within a given distance, thus providing what should be a clear message, though if in India horn honking would have been the norm from 200 meters in. We had a chance to watch the big Easy in action one day, making its methodical slow turns and stops within its geo-fenced area, which also allowed pedestrians and bikes in the area. Communication with its environment (V2X) and the supervision center via 4G data connection network.The trials run in Frankfurt do have a safety rider/consultant from the German local partner of Easymile, but the routing is a fixed route with fixed planned stops via GPS programming for picking up and discharging passengers and using only LIDAR at this time for the safety breaking, though other systems it has deployed elsewhere have a mix of possible sensors and related communications that can include: The system uses some core technology from Germany’s tier 1 auto supplier Continental AG including LIDAR, ABS, short-range radar and a redundant brake system for safety. This site went live in September, kicked off by none other than Angela Merkel riding it. The company has established large-scale technical and commercial partnerships with prestigious industrial groups such as Alstom, Continental and TLD (a world leader in airport ground transportation). EasyMile states it has 200 systems deployed, and 150 employees in five offices (Toulouse, Berlin, Denver, Singapore and Melbourne). If you look at the next video closely (in full screen mode), you can see the particles moving along the ground below each walking Autiton instance.I had the opportunity in Frankfurt a few weeks ago in October to see and ride fully-electric autonomous shuttles on a geo-fenced portion of Mainkai along the Rhine River. As an advocate for ADAS and sensing suites including the roles for LIDAR and AI in the future, my wife and I were thrilled to happen upon this trial of an Easymile system.Įasymile is a French firm, with 22M EUROs invested so far from corporate partners, and has put together an interesting set of trial and special purpose (airports) operating sites using various architectures of sensors and vehicles. This created six rows of 25 Autitons all walking away from the center for 150 Autitons per Instance Generator hex cluster. I then swapped the walk cycle Autiton for the stand-in as the reference object for the particle emitter’s DP_Instancer generator. This is the walk cycle that was used to make the Autiton instances walk in all the interior shots. I started with a previous walk cycle of an Autiton unit that I had created using IK Booster and Motion Mixer. So it was time to send them all for a nice little walk. As well as the particle emitter recursively instanced to create 1.5 million Autiton units. In the previous post I had the static, low res, Autiton stand-in instances working with the hex particle emitter.
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