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Preparing for the DARPA Autonomous Vehicle Challenge
Little Hamster writes "Post-gazette.com has an interesting article on the DARPA funded 200-mile autonomous vehicle race across the California-Nevada desert. They interviewed teams from two of the early favourites, Carnegie Mellon University and the California Institute of Technology. The teams talked about challenges on driving at high speed over a combination of roads, rough terrain and brush-covered desert, where the robot would need to consider how fast it can make a turn, the possibility of spinning tires and the potential to become airborne when hitting bumps."
Get these robots to drive NASCAR to entertain the automatons known as fans.
A nice thought, but in reality the passengers would just piss the time away reading Slashdot over a cell phone connection.
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."