[Nfbk] Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here | Magazine

[cindy smith]

This was Very interesting, Kevin.  The first thing I thought of while  
reading this was, "What about the blind driver challenge, all the  
research and technology going into that project?"  Sure seems like  
things would go faster at less cost if All the R&D came together for  
the common goal.   Hmmmmmm.
Thanks, Kev.

Cindy


On Feb 3, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Kevin Pearl wrote:

> The object, vaguely pink, sits on the shoulder of the freeway,  
> slowly shimmering into view. Is it roadkill? A weird kind of  
> sagebrush? No, wait, it’s … a puffy chunk of foam insulation! “The  
> laser almost certainly got returns off of it,” says Chris Urmson,  
> sitting behind the wheel of the Prius he is not driving. A note is  
> made (FOD: foreign object or debris, lane 1) as we drive past, to  
> help our computerized car understand the curious flotsam it has just  
> seen.
>
> It’s a Monday, midday, and we are heading north on California  
> Highway 85 in a Google autonomous vehicle. In October 2010, when The  
> New York Timesreported that Google had built a fleet of self-driving  
> cars that had already collectively traversed some 140,000 miles of  
> California asphalt, it came as a shock, a terrestrial Sputnik. Now  
> the cars, with their whirling rooftop laser arrays, are as familiar  
> in the Bay Area as the company’s camera-crowned Street View  
> vehicles. Indeed, the two are often confused, which is presumably  
> why the words “self-driving car” have recently been plastered on  
> this one’s driver-side door.
>
> read the entire article at:
>
> http://m.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_autonomouscars/
>
>
>
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