Welcome to the Self Driving Pi Car

Self driving car technologies are in fashion today but we usually refer them to expensive difficult technologies and quite a big investment in hardware and software.,

But small systems like Raspberry Pi and phones are getting more powerful each day and they are more and more useful for AI tasks. A week ago Apple announced their Machine Learning interfaces for iOS.

So whithout pretending to run an  autonomous car with a Raspberry Pi I try to implement some of the technologies, using the camera to tackle some of the problems and perhaps evolve to a Conduction Assistance System.

As I advance through Udacity Self Driving Car Nano Degree I will be implementing the technologies in the Raspberry Pi and perhaps the iPhone.

First step is simple lane detection. Not so easy in real roads as  in the project videos and which mixes software and hardware problems like sun shining into the camera, a stable removable mount for the camera in the car.

As a way to solve the computer power limits of the PiI don't discard having various Pi doing some of the work and fusion their data afterwards, an interesting and challenging problem in itsef.

And as a bonus, the system must be movable from car to car with easy, working either in a VW Golf or a Viano Mercedes or other model with minimum modifications.