Robot to drive in California traffic
Those brave roboticists from Stanford
University have decided to tackle the final automotive frontier - commuting. The robotics group whose autonomous VW
Touareg, Stanley (pictured), won the DARPA Grand Challenge desert race last year, are building a car that will drive
itself at highway speeds from San Francisco City hall to downtown Los Angeles in October 2007.Professor Sebastian Thrun, the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, and one of the sparkplugs of the DARPA Grand Challenge project, envisions robotic cars driving commuters to work, perhaps within the next five to ten years.
The as yet unnamed SF/LA car, probably a VW Passat wagon, will have a human co-driver, who will be able to override the robotic pilot in much the same way as we take over from our cars' cruise control systems.
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m 9:40AM (2/23/2006)
I beleive this is the beginning of the future for all of the developed worlds transport/roads and should be treated as very important for governments.
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Todd Sobrado 5:34AM (4/05/2006)
Wow..Looking forward to see this running sucessfully.
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California Car Insurance 12:27PM (5/05/2006)
Only in our great state of CA would something like this happen... I hope the robot is insured...
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murphy p brodt jr3 10:38PM (10/04/2006)
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debt consolidation loan 11:18AM (11/26/2006)
Innovation is our hope for the future. Will this car be gas or battery powered?
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