[nabs-l] [stylist] Google tests cars that can steer withoutdrivers

Tue Oct 12 03:38:08 UTC 2010

Well, ain't no one injecting me with nothin'.  But since Google pretty much
already controls most every other part of my life, they may as well
influence my potential for driving. :)

Joe

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing 

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steer withoutdrivers

Hey Joe,

I'll never trust the guy who inspired the inaccessible Blio launch with 
injecting nanoprobes or anything else into my body and neither should 
anybody else. What if they crash your brain or make it inaccessible? :)

On 10/11/2010 8:19 PM, Antonio Guimaraes wrote:
> If Ray Kurzweil can promise fixing disease, and improving the 
human being with ingections of computer parts into our 
bloodstream, if such unimaginable feats of science can ever 
come to reality some day, then automated driving can't be that far off.
>
> Thanks Joe,
>
> Antonio
> On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:12 P
> M, Danielle Montour wrote:
>
>> Hey this is cool! Thanks! I'm in the same boat as you on the 
car without steering thing.  That would be interesting if this 
experiment yielded good results.
>>
>> Danielle
>>
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>> Subject: [stylist] Google tests cars that can steer without drivers
>>
>> Ah, look at this?  For all the nay-sayers like myself who 
think cars that
>> drive themselves are a thing of pipe dreams.  Maybe a 
reconsideration is in
>> order, but only just maybe.--Joe
>>
>> Google tests cars that can steer without drivers
>>
>> Video
>>
>> Logitech's De Luca Says Google `Not Replacing' Cable TV: Video
>> Oct.  7 (Bloomberg) -- Guerrino De Luca, chairman of 
Logitech International
>> SA, talks about the outlook for Google Inc.'s TV service, 
which will debut
>> this month on Sony Corp.  and Logitech devices.  De Luca 
talks with Matt
>> Miller and Carol Massar on Bloomberg Television's "Street 
Smart." (Source:
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>> By DANIEL WAGNER
>> The Associated Press
>> Sunday, October 10, 2010; 6:23 PM
>>
>> WASHINGTON -- Google Inc.  is road-testing cars that steer, 
stop and start
>> without a human driver, the company says.
>>
>> This Story
>> Google tests cars that can steer without drivers
>> Munster Says Google, Apple in `First Inning' of TV Clash: Video
>> Logitech's De Luca Says Google `Not Replacing' Cable TV: Video
>> The goal is to "help prevent traffic accidents, free up 
people's time and
>> reduce carbon emissions" through ride sharing and "the new 
'highway trains
>> of tomorrow,'" project leader Sebastian Thrun wrote Saturday 
on Google's
>> corporate blog.
>>
>> The cars are never unmanned, Thrun wrote.  He said a backup 
driver is always
>> behind the wheel to monitor the software.
>>
>> It's not the first signal that Google wants to change how 
people get from
>> place to place.  In a speech Sept.  29 at the TechCrunch 
"Disrupt" conference,
>> Google CEO Eric Schmidt said "your car should drive itself.  
It just makes
>> sense."
>>
>> "It's a bug that cars were invented before computers," Schmidt said.
>>
>> The cars have traveled a total of 140,000 miles on major 
California roads
>> without much human intervention, according to Google's 
corporate blog.
>>
>> The Mountain View, Calif.-based technology giant has sent 
seven test cars a
>> total of 1,000 miles without a human touching the controls 
at all, the New
>> York Times reported.  The newspaper published a report on 
the cars earlier
>> Sunday.
>>
>> The cars know speed limits, traffic patterns and road maps, 
Thrun's posting
>> says.  They use video cameras, radar sensors and lasers to 
detect other cars.
>>
>>
>> Driving between Northern California and Southern California, 
the cars have
>> navigated San Francisco's curvy Lombard Street, Los Angeles' 
Hollywood
>> Boulevard and the cliff-hugging Pacific Coast Highway, the blog says.
>>
>> Engineers consider the cars safer because they react more 
quickly than
>> humans, the New York Times said.  It said Google has not 
revealed how it
>> hopes to profit from the research.
>>
>> The company is flush with cash, though, and pushing numerous 
projects such
>> as the cars that are unrelated to its core business, said 
Rob Enderle,
>> principal analyst with the Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif.
>>
>> "The word 'focus' is a word Google has never learned," Enderle said,
>> pointing to projects involving electricity distribution, 
vehicle design and
>> artificial intelligence.  He said cars that can drive 
themselves would allow
>> commuters more time to surf the web, something Google would 
encourage.
>>
>> Still, Enderle said, industry leaders such as Volkswagen and 
Intel Corp.  are
>> working on similar technology.  He said "driverless" 
vehicles will make
>> computers more like the robots imagined in the 1920s, rather than the
>> tabletop data processors we use today.
>>
>> The blog says the technology is being developed by 
scientists who were
>> involved in an earlier set of unmanned car races organized by the
>> government's Defense Advance Research Projects Agency.
>>
>> ----
>>
>> AP Technology Writer Michael Liedtke in San Francisco 
contributed to this
>> report.
>>
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