SELF-DRIVING CARS

Self-driving vehicles are cars in which human drivers are never required to take
control to safely operate the vehicle. Also known as autonomous or
“driverless” cars, they combine sensors and software to control, navigate, and
drive the vehicle.

LANE DETECTION

Lane detection is a critical component of self-driving cars and autonomous

vehicles. Identifying lanes of the road is very common task that human driver
performs. This is important to keep the vehicle in the constraints of the lane.
Once lane positions are obtained, the vehicle will know where to go and avoid
the risk of running into other lanes or getting off the road. This can prevent the
driver/car system from drifting off the driving lane.

The task that we wish to perform is that of real-time lane detection. There are
multiple ways we can perform lane detection. We can use the learning-based
approaches, such as training a deep learning model on an annotated video
dataset, or use a pre-trained model. However, there are simpler methods to
perform lane detection as well. A very simple Lane Detection pipeline is possible
with simple Computer Vision techniques.

In this we will use the popular OpenCV library in Python.