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

[Kevin Pearl]

Hi Cindy,  
I’m glad to hear these two articles have had an impact on you.  Now you have become part of the “driving” force behind changing things.  

Kev


From: cindy smith 
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 9:05 AM
To: NFB of Kentucky Internet Mailing List 
Subject: Re: [Nfbk] Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future IsHere | Magazine

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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