[Nfbmo] Fw: [nfbmi-talk] Audi's Self-Piloted Car Picks You Up

Fred Olver goodfolks at charter.net
Wed Jan 9 16:07:20 UTC 2013


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Eagle" <terrydeagle at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Audi's Self-Piloted Car Picks You Up


> Great!  No more waiting for relatives and friends who cannot or will not
> keep track of time.  Finally, a departure time that is truly a departure
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> 10 Years Away - Audi's Self-Piloted Car Picks You Up
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> Note:  Probably where the world will go one day - no driver cars!  Here is
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> Audi's offering in the works . . .
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> Audi's Self-Piloted Car Picks You Up
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> For the video got to:
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> http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/ces-2013-audi-car-parks-itself-picks-t
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> By Joanna Stern <http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/author/joanna-stern/>  | ABC
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> News Blogs <http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/>  - 2 hrs 42 mins ago
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> LAS VEGAS - Forget valet parking. The car of the future can find a spot 
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> you and then pick you up.
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> And the future has driven to CES 2013 <http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/> 
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> Audi's Connect car
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> <http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/video/ces-60-audi-pilotless-parking-181654
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> 80>  not only drives and parks itself but the iPhone is its key.
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> "Imagine you are at a shopping center and you want the car to pick you up.
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> That's exactly what it will do," Annie Lien, Audi Senior Engineer, told 
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> News.
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> Click Here for Full Coverage: CES 2013 <http://abcnews.go.com/technology>
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> We witnessed it firsthand. At a demo at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Las
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> Vegas, Audi set up a working demonstration of the technology. Press the
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> Pickup button on the Audi app, and you can set the time at which you want
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> the parked car to come pick you up. Tap the button again and it will turn 
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> the ignition and come get you. No one in the driver's seat.
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> How does it work? Audi has been developing its own self-driving 
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> which it prefers to call piloted parking or driving. (It says it wants to
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> stress that humans can take control at any time.) The car uses twelve
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> ultrasound sensors to navigate and avoid obstacles. It parks itself with a
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> combination of sensors in the car, the garage and roads.
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> The hope is that parking garages will have computers that communicate with
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> the car, telling it where there is open space. The car is able to make 
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> on its own and knows how to maneuver around the garage with external laser
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> Click Here: CES 2013 in Pictures
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> <http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/slideshow/ces-2013-photos-18148569>
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> The road to autonomous cars isn't a short one. Today Audi announced that 
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> has become the first automaker granted a license to drive or operate
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> autonomous cars in Nevada. Nevada passed a law last year making it legal
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> <http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/watch-out-self-driving-cars-
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> approved-in-nevada/>  to test self-driving cars in the state, and other
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> companies, such as Google, have been granted licenses as well. Audi says 
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> expects the technology it's working on to be commercially available in the
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> next decade.
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> Until then, we'll continue to look for parking on our own.
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