Minority REALport -- Google's self-driving car?

[Darren Dirt]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20019139-71.html

uh-waaaaaa?

[Mr. Analog]

Someone forwarded this to me on Saturday and I thought it was a joke site (like the onion).

Crazy!

[Lazybones]

googles apparently not the first to do this.

The part I find interesting is that the testers ride in the passenger side, I wonder if that is to further insolated them from fault if there is an incident.

Also interesting was tha the only crash was when some rearended one of these.

Gps data is already scary when humans trust it and not their eyes. Every now and then I get impossible directions to turn left across a median or into a one way street. I see the error and take my own action. I wonder if these cars have vision systems that correct for such map errors.

[Mr. Analog]

All I know is that I'll stick to the bus for a while longer hahaha

[Darren Dirt]

All I know is that I'll stick to the bus for a while longer hahaha

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0075124/quotes (1st quote, obv.)

[Mr. Analog]

All I know is that I'll stick to the bus for a while longer hahaha

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0075124/quotes (1st quote, obv.)

LOL

[Darren Dirt]

NY Times talked about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html?pagewanted=all

The project is the brainchild of Sebastian Thrun, the 43-year-old director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a Google engineer and the co-inventor of the Street View mapping service.

In 2005, he led a team of Stanford students and faculty members in designing the Stanley robot car, winning the second Grand Challenge of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a $2 million Pentagon prize for driving autonomously over 132 miles in the desert.

...but the problem is social, not technical/hardware (i.e. first get a rock-solid solution to the problem of "VIRTUAL" driving, then put it into the real world... with the help of the entire global community of software developers (not just AI). Work TOGETHER, all you smart people! Stop holding onto your codebase like it's the Colonel's Secret Recipe. *the problem is SOFTWARE*