Self driving car's detection accuracy enhanced by tech from Panasonic

Panasonic developed crash preventing technologies for car by improving the detection accuracy of the radar. It can detect cars, pedestrians and bicycles in less than 0.1 seconds, on the condition that they are separated by 20cm .By applying this technology to 79GHz radar, accidents can be prevented at road crossings/intersections. In fact, this technology helps a lot in designing a self driving car. The advantage of mm-wave radar is it can detect people and vehicles in night time and bad weather conditions. Panasonic says its technologies allow the operation of multiple millimeter radars, enables for a wider field-of-view (FOV) system. Panasonic claims it has used unique coding technologies to millimeter-wave radar to achieve an accuracy which is 2.5 times higher than that of previous models of the millimeter-wave radar. The simultaneous operation of multiple millimeter-wave radars has been is realized by controlling the interference between multiple radars, widening the FOV, and making it suitable for monitoring an overall area of a typical intersection. The new technological elements developed by Panasonic includes: Multi-dimensional electrical scanning technology Census the location very fast and maintains a high degree of sensitivity for pedestrian detection by the suppression of noise due to reflections from metallic vehicles. The orthogonal complementar...