Driving Under The Influence Will Soon Be A Thing of the Past

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We'll no longer have to drive...

Stanford engineers are developing the first autonomous racing car to climb Pikes Peak, a challenging 12.4-mile ascent in the Rocky Mountains, at 130 mph, as a way to create and test safety systems they hope one day will be used in all vehicles....

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CuVVZq9GfY"]YouTube - Stanford's Robotic Audi TTS[/ame]
 


I think it's still very exciting...and true.

People think of these autonomous vehicles being way in the distant future, but in reality we have this.
 
Video Warning: There is absolutely no footage of this car at 130mph anywhere let alone going up Pikes Peak.

I cant imagine this working.

They have been trying to get cars to drive themselves for years and all they do is drive in circles or off the road unless every street is very strongly marked and that will never happen in the USA. And those stupid cars are driving at 20 mph on flat ground in square blocks.
 
Drake said:
Video Warning: There is absolutely no footage of this car at 130mph anywhere let alone going up Pikes Peak.

I cant imagine this working.

They have been trying to get cars to drive themselves for years and all they do is drive in circles or off the road unless every street is very strongly marked and that will never happen in the USA. And those stupid cars are driving at 20 mph on flat ground in square blocks.
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You don't need to imagine it, look up DARPA grand challenge. These cars that you're trying to imagine, EXIST. They can even drive in simulated urban environments with traffic, lights, signs, and all. WITHOUT MARKERS (that's old school thinking)

We have cars that you can BUY now that can parallel park themselves, everyone knows that (Lexus). I think a Mercedes exists now that can sense immediate threat in front of them and break to prevent or at least hinder and accident. Mercedes can also monitor your eyes and wake you if you get drowzy. Some other car can warn you if you're swerving into the other lane... Now we have Audi's that can do the whole shebang.

The last obstacle is convincing the public and policy makers these things are safe.

This car will drive up Pike's Peak I believe next year at 130mph WITHOUT markers. I mean holy shit. This is amazing.

You need to get up to date on where we're at in autonomous tech. :)
 
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The Mercedes S-Class has always been the front runner of innovation.

It's usually about 10 years ahead of most normal cars, so to get an idea of what most cars will have in 10 years, just look at the S-Class.
 
Fuck that, when do we get the jet packs?

Another problem with the autonomous highway system is not with the technology, it is that the implementation will involve the efforts of multiple organizations, some in government and some including the auto makers and engineers.

The way things are now, if the Gulf Coast got hit with another large hurricane, it would still take a week for FEMA to arrive and the auto makers can't keep the red off the books.

I'd make a guess it will happen in Europe (maybe Finland, Germany) years before it happens here in the US.
 
Drake said:
Video Warning: There is absolutely no footage of this car at 130mph anywhere let alone going up Pikes Peak.

I cant imagine this working.

They have been trying to get cars to drive themselves for years and all they do is drive in circles or off the road unless every street is very strongly marked and that will never happen in the USA. And those stupid cars are driving at 20 mph on flat ground in square blocks.
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And I imagine that 20 years ago you couldn't even dream of making money from home by sitting at your computer and there wasn't even internet. Who the fuck knows what is going to happen in the next 20 years.
 
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And I imagine that 20 years ago you couldn't even dream of making money from home by sitting at your computer and there wasn't even internet. Who the fuck knows what is going to happen in the next 20 years.
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Exactly, and if this car works next year (which I'm willing to bet it will) look at how close we already are.

LogicFlux said:
From the people who created teh internet...
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Arpanet, FTW
 
WOW!! Just Fucking WOW!!

Heavy thread dudes.

It'll be great when this is standardized across the globe and a giant solar flare hits the planet.

Oops, so much for the automated electronic systems.

I wonder if our implanted medical chips will still be able to transmit our positions and Bio-Statis for the EMT response teams that may or may not be operational to help the masses that will be injured.

Lulz
 
Where was teleporting, for fuck's sake? Should we not have teleporting by now? They promised us teleporting decades ago! It made all the sense in the world ... the one advancement that would finally break us all free of our slow movement from here to there, would zip our big fat slow fleshy bodies around as fast as our minds could will them -- which was as fast as they should be going: the speed of thought.
 
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKlavhbeaKU"]YouTube - Top Gear - Self racing BMW 330i[/ame]
 
damn mikesev beat me too it.. however i honestly can't stand the idea of having cars driving automatically...
 
I'm surprised nobody has brought up how a hacker could kill a ton of people by breaking into a few cars during heavy traffic.

To be eloquent, fuck that shit.
 
Traska said:
I'm surprised nobody has brought up how a hacker could kill a ton of people by breaking into a few cars during heavy traffic.

To be eloquent, fuck that shit.
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True, but a hacker can already do so much today. Like launch nuclear missiles, crash the stock market, crash the internet, etc. But do those things happen?

Also, I'm willing to bet overall the number of crashes that this will prevent will far outweigh the hacker event.
 
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