Have you ever had an experience where you know that something about your car is not right, but you just can’t put your finger on it? Or the problem occurs every now and then, but for some reason when you take it to the mechanic, that weird sound disappears? We get that it’s frustrating not just for you, but also to mechanics who will have to figure it out on their own.
However that could change in the future thanks to deep learning AI technology that could change the way car repairs are handled in the future. Developed by a company called 3DSignals, basically how it works is that they use deep learning AI technology to study the sounds made by your car, and when it detects that the sound is different, it could pinpoint the source of the problem, and sometimes even before you know it, thus saving you the hassle of having your car break down in the middle of the highway.
This concept can also be applied to self-driving vehicles where it would make maintenance of the vehicles much easier. Speaking to IEEE Spectrum, Yair Lavi, a co-founder and head of algorithms for 3DSignals said, “If you’re a passenger in a driverless taxi, you only care about getting to your destination and you’re not reporting maintenance problems. So actually having the 3DSignals solution in autonomous taxis is very interesting to the owners of taxi fleets.”
The company is said to be in talks with leading European carmakers about using their technology in not just their cars, but their factory machinery as well. What will be the result of these talks remains to be seen, but it certainly sounds like it could take a lot of guesswork out of car repairs in the future.
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