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today with the latest hurdle of
driverless car companies looking to
mainstream driverless cars also known as
self-driving or autonomous vehicles
navigate without human input instead
they use sensors cameras radar and lidar
which stands for light detection and
ranging to detect Road signals other
vehicles and the terrain around them the
car software powered by artificial
intelligence machine learning algorithms
uses the data collected to send almost
instantaneous instructions to the car's
controls test and launching autonomous
cars has been an INF fractu Journey
there have been crashes from systems
malfunctions there have been pedestrian
accidents when systems didn't respond to
people in one case earlier this year a
Los Angeles Tech entrepreneur found
himself trapped in a self-driving taxi
on his way to the airport with the car
repeatedly circling around a parking lot
what in the world would you do after
years of research and testing though
autonomous cars are already on on the
streets of cities from San Francisco to
Wuhan and now high-speed unmarked roads
in rural areas which sometimes have very
few signs have become the next challenge
in testing driverless cars check out how
car manufacturer Nissan set out to
navigate this hurdle in the UK to
develop an autonomous car that can
handle every type of Road it might
encounter
wow it's incredible a drive lless car
can drive like
autonomous cars you can already find
them on the Streets of San Francisco and
Wuhan but there's one place they have
yet to conquer the winding high-speed
country roads of the UK we think this is
one of the most ambitious autonomous
Drive-In programs that's ongoing today
in the world we feel if we hadn't have
done the research in the UK we would not
have had something which would be so
comprehensive to cover all of the roads
the future customer needs the difficult
thing about autonomous driving or ad is
there are lots of things that can go
wrong in cities there are lots of AIDS
to help ad cars Road markings slow
speeds signs traffic lights but those
AIDS are less common on the roads
outside cities and that's where the
Nissan Le evolve ad program comes
in what we have here is our next
Generation autonomous vehicles these
vehicles have the capability of driving
down rural roads um following the
highway code but doing speeds of 55 to
60 M hour how do you start it this this
is where I get the signal K is ready
when you are so you happy to set off Y
and the vehicle's down in autonomous
mode it's quite ghostly isn't it when it
kind of does the whole thing by itself
because we do this all day every day
it's uh we forget what it must feel like
for new people to jump in experience it
for the first time evolve ad is the last
step in the research phase of Nissan's
autonomous driving Journey having
successfully proven the technology on
highways and in cities there's likely
one question though on many people's
minds is it safe it acts better than
Advanced Driver because an advanced
driver looks to the left and to the
right the ad vehicle looks all around it
all the time this makes it much safer
feels really different being up front
like this the car is covered with
sensors including Laser Technology and
cameras and Nissan has also introduced a
chassis control system that enhances
braking and steering there are other
sources of information the car can use
as well we can take signals from outside
of the vehicle such as CCT cameras this
kind of thing which basically gives us
an an added capability which means that
we can see effectively around the corner
after 16,000 mil on the UK's public
roads and no accidents Nissan's plan is
to take the learnings from the Evolve ad
program and use them in the development
of their first autonomous vehicle
Mobility service due to hit the roads of
Japan in 2027 this is great technology
ology and it's something you're going to
see a lot more of in the
future pop qu Hot Shot what is a
collective noun for a group of guillas
troop cluster school or
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crash troop there it is a group of
gorillas is called a troop they stay in
family groups that can have up to 30
members including a dominant male
several females and their young mountain
gorillas have been specified as
endangered meaning they face a very high
risk of Extinction in the wild because
of factors like poaching habitat loss
and disease while uganda's first
Wildlife vet and conservation NGO
founder has started a project empowering
locals to grow cash crops like coffee or
tea to support safe and healthy gorilla
populations our Bill Weir shows us how
the ready to grow program is helping
people gorillas and other Wildlife
coexist in the the highlands of
Southwestern
Uganda Dr Gladis kma zukus SOA is
working to break the chain of disease
transmission between humans and mountain
gorillas but sickness is just one of the
many challenges facing these great
apes with such close proximity to the
Bundy impenetrable National Park much of
the local community has relied on the
forest for food and firewood for
Generations
and though the intention is rarely to
hurt the gorillas they are vulnerable to
Accidental
injury in most cases these people are
just looking to put food on the table um
the subsistence poachers they're hungry
that's the main reason they're
poaching so they don't
actually attack the gorillas to eat them
if they're busy poaching other animals
like daar bush pig and they come across
gorillas that happens from time to time
they sit out stns and they spear the
gorillas because they're trying to go
for other food the mission to reduce
poaching in the forest is twofold first
help the local community see the
benefits that Guerilla tourism can bring
to the area in the form of new jobs and
infrastructure in
schools and secondly in helping former
poachers find alternative income during
the pandemic we started the ready to
grow program where we give them fast
growing seedlings
so far now we've distributed to 3,000
households and then we also try
encourage them to have a cash crop like
coffee or tea because the more that they
have food security the less likely
they're going to enter the forest to
poach so in 2016 Gladis or husband
Lawrence launched a new coffee brand
that would provide a stable income for
bendy's Farmers while also protecting
the gorillas one we started off with 75
farmers of which only five were women we
now have 6 30 farmers of which 230 are
women and it's going really well it's
set up to only sell coffee from where
gorillas are
found and this equates to premium of
specialty coffee and a donation from
every bag sold goes to support Community
Health gorilla health and conservation
education in the same communities around
the national park so we're in that way
we're providing sustainable financing
for conservation
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today's story is getting a 10 out of 10
so 20 out of 20 man versus nature and
nature versus nature a lightning strike
from above wreaking havoc on a poor old
tree you just have to see all caught on
a home security camera in Tennessee and
in Utah we get to see what happened when
Engineers tested out Avalanche
prevention by setting off another
Avalanche or Jeremy Roth has more this
one in Utah where the official response
to a natural Avalanche was to set off
another unnatural one Engineers did just
that triggering an intense snowy slide
that kicked up a powdery plume in the
cottonwoods canyon area all to try and
prevent damage should just such a thing
happen again uh just trust me it all
makes sense finally nobody planned for
it nobody could control it but it
appears no one was injured when a
lightning bolt suddenly blasted a
Nashville homes front yard tree so now
we all get to Marvel at it the sudden
strike sent splinters and Shar cards
flying in the surveillance video which
is impressive but unfortunately has no
sound so please allow
me thank you thank you very much huge
thanks to everyone who submitted an
array of considerable commanding and
demanding words for your word Wednesday
today's winner is Sharon High School in
Sharon Massachusetts for and fractu an
adjective meaning full of twists and
turns Sharon is caring about our vocab
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