The Perseverance Rover's Autonomous Driving Has Gone Fantastically Well
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is just days away from breaking the autonomous driving record, having traveled some 28 miles almost entirely autonomously, Ars Technica reports. With onboard navigation systems, it's been able to travel 90% of its Martian journey without the need for human input, helping it travel further, faster.
Similar in design to the Curiosity rover that launched a near-decade before it, Perseverance's onboard computing system is much faster and more capable, thanks to the use of a commercial phone processor to communicate with the Ingenuity copter. That has allowed it to plan its route as it's in motion, meaning it can cover up to 150 meters an hour without the need for extensive (or even any) human input. Curiosity, by comparison, has only spend about 10% of its time driving autonomously, meaning in over 15 years it's only traversed about 24 miles.
Perseverance has traveled 28...
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