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<DIV>Hi Cindy, </DIV>
<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>Kev</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=cindy.smith8109@aol.com
href="mailto:cindy.smith8109@aol.com">cindy smith</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 04, 2012 9:05 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=nfbk@nfbnet.org href="mailto:nfbk@nfbnet.org">NFB of
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Nfbk] Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the
Future IsHere | Magazine</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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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.
<DIV>Thanks, Kev.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cindy</DIV>
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<DIV>On Feb 3, 2012, at 4:09 PM, Kevin Pearl wrote:</DIV><BR
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object, vaguely pink,</STRONG> 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.</P>
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a Monday, midday, and we are heading north on California Highway 85 in a
Google autonomous vehicle. In October 2010, when <EM
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New York Times</EM>reported 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.</P>
<DIV>read the entire article at:</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://m.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_autonomouscars/">http://m.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_autonomouscars/</A></DIV>
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