self-driving-car

Notes on the McWatters Automotive Self-Driving Car Project

Goal

To create aftermarket retrofit hardware and software that meets or exceeds SAE Level 4 per J3016 APR2021.¹

Objectives

1. Source off-the-shelf hardware solutions comparable to the 5th-generation Waymo Driver sensor suite.

Planned features

• Adaptive cruise control
• Lane centering
• Pedestrian and bicycle detection
• Traffic sign and traffic light detection based on the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways²
• Map-based navigation

Hardware

8 5MP cameras

Prior art

• ³ Jeyachandran, Satish (March 4, 2020). "Waypoint - The official Waymo blog: Introducing the 5th-generation Waymo Driver: Informed by experience, designed for scale, engineered to tackle more environments". Waymo. Retrieved 11 January 2024.

References

• ¹ SAE International (April 30, 2021). "J3016_202104: Taxonomy and Definitions for Terms Related to Driving Automation Systems for On-Road Motor Vehicles - SAE International". Retrieved 11 January 2024.
• ⁴ SAE International (May 3, 2021). "SAE Levels of Driving Automation™ Refined for Clarity and International Audience". Retrieved 11 January 2024.
• ² United States Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration (December 19, 2023). "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) - FHWA". Retrieved 24 January 2024.

License

GNU General Public License v2.0

Footnotes

1. https://www.sae.org/standards/content/j3016_202104/ ↩ ↩²

2. https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov ↩ ↩²

3. https://waymo.com/blog/2020/03/introducing-5th-generation-waymo-driver.html ↩

4. https://www.sae.org/blog/sae-j3016-update ↩