SlashGear JPIf you’re going to win the DARPA autonomous vehicle challenge, you’ve got to be pretty clever; even so, when General Motors (GM) invited the SlashGear CES team to be passengers in their Chevy Tahoe self-driving SUV, there was a little apprehension about giving up the keys to a robot! Of course, we shouldn’t have been worried: with 25 sensors, including five radar units giving a 360-degree view of its surroundings, two lasers from specialist Continental and GPS, all feeding data about the driving environment and any potential obstacles into advanced behavior algorithms, the Tahoe had more eyes on the road than the team did!
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, they estimate that nearly 10,000 deadly wrecks could be prevented yearly if electronic stabilization technology was used on every vehicle. GM and Chevy are working to that end.
The Director of Design for the Chevrolet Camaro concept – Tom Peters took the 400-horsepower aluminum small-block V-8, with six-speed manual transmission, along with a super sophisticated chassis and four-wheel independent suspension out for it’s very first drive. General Motors put this video together to share Peters’ feelings on the experience, and to allow viewers a feel of the “tantalizing audio of the Camaro’s engine. Click through to watch the video and view more images of the muscular Camaro concept.
