The Fifth-Generation Waymo Driver Sjálfstýrt aksturskerfi by YooJung Ahn is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award í platínu in Vélmenni, sjálfvirk kerfi og sjálfvirkni Competition Category.
PlatínaVélmenni· 2021
The Fifth-Generation Waymo Driver Sjálfstýrt aksturskerfi
by YooJung Ahn
Client: Waymo
A' Design Award í platínu Winner in Vélmenni Category
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The Design
About The Fifth-Generation Waymo Driver Sjálfstýrt aksturskerfi
Fimmta kynslóð Waymo Driver er sjálfstýrt aksturskerfi fyrir ökutæki. Kerfið er hægt að nota á margar gerðir ökutækja, allt frá fólksbílum til vörubíla, og styður leigubílaþjónustu, vöruflutninga, heimsendingar og einkabílaeign. Þrjár skynjunartækni eru sameinaðar í vélbúnaðinum: lidar, myndavélar og ratsjá. Hreyfanleg LED-ljós á 360 gráðu lidar-skynjaranum sýna persónulegt auðkennistákn, þannig að farþegar geta þekkt ökutækið sitt. Skynjararnir eru staðsettir þannig að þeir falli óaðfinnanlega að ökutækinu. Hönnunin miðar að því að gera flutninga á fólki og vörum öruggari og auðveldari.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award í platínu
The Fifth-Generation Waymo Driver Sjálfstýrt aksturskerfi vann A' Design Award í platínu, afar virta viðurkenningu sem veitt er sannarlega einstökum, glæsilegum og stórfenglegum hönnunarverkum. Sigurvegarar í platínu eru undur sköpunarinnar, vitnisburður um mörk vitsmunalegrar sköpunargáfu og sýna óviðjafnanlega fagmennsku og snilld hönnuða sinna. Þess er vænst að þessi hönnunarverk séu þekktustu verkin sem skilgreina fagurfræði tímabils, stuðla að velferð samfélagsins og færa mörk listar, vísinda, hönnunar og tækni fram á við. The Fifth-Generation Waymo Driver Sjálfstýrt aksturskerfi sýnir yfirskilvitlegt stig afburða og gerir heiminn tvímælalaust að betri stað með hagstæðum og verðmætum eiginleikum sínum. The Fifth-Generation Waymo Driver Sjálfstýrt aksturskerfi er verk sem vann A' Design Award í platínu sem vekur langanir, veitir innblástur, spennir, gleður og kveikir mikla gleði.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Waymo’s technology, called the Waymo Driver, has the potential to save millions of lives and improve mobility for people and things. The fifth-generation Waymo Driver can be applied to multiple vehicle platforms, from cars to trucks, and power use cases across ride-hailing, trucking, local delivery, and personal car ownership. The latest system is more powerful than ever before and designed for scale, enabling safer and easier transportation for both people and goods.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Waymo Driver and vehicle max dimensions for the I-PACE platform*:
Width: 2130mm
Length: 4863mm
Height: 2041mm
*Please note these are dimensions for the I-PACE platform as an example. Measurements will vary depending on which vehicle platform the Waymo Driver is being applied to. - Tags
- Mobility, self-driving, safety, AI, cars, trucks, vehicles, autonomous vehicles, ride-hailing, delivery
- Production Technology
- Materials: A diverse selection of materials like plastic, composites, glass, and metal
- Design Challenge
- The creative challenge is ensuring the design of the high-tech Waymo Driver remains human-centered. Our designers are tasked with packaging advanced technologies into a design that optimizes performance but also feels approachable to users. For example, we carefully curate the placement of our sensors and other technology on our cars and trucks to maximize safety and performance, while still making them look seamless on the vehicle.
- Inspiration
- Traffic crashes cause 1.35 million deaths each year, and 94% of traffic crashes in the U.S. are caused by human error. While humans are susceptible to dangerous variables, the Waymo Driver doesn't get tired or angry, distracted, or drunk. The Waymo Driver’s latest hardware suite includes new, leading technologies that can be applied to everything from passenger vehicles to long-haul trucks, taking tangible steps to make our roads dramatically safer.
- Project Duration
- Mountain View, CA
- Operation Flow
- The Waymo Driver’s latest hardware suite includes three sensing technologies—lidar, cameras, and radar. Our team designs these technologies to make them feel approachable to users, while still prioritizing safety and performance. For example, we added moving LEDs to our 360 lidar, so that it can include both Waymo branding and a personal identification symbol that acts as a mechanism for customers to identify which vehicle is theirs.
- Patents
- US Patent Appl. Nos. 29/689,690; 29/722,227; 29/724,655; 29/725,082; 29/724,585; and 29/724,589. Chinese Patent App. No. CN201930599257.7. European Community Design App. No. ECD007141866.
- Team Members
- YooJung Ahn
Josh Newby
Jared Gross
Jerry Chen
Alexandre Girard
Zhaokun Wang
Yi-Hui Bruce-Wen
Tom Southworth
Albert Shane
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