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Linux-Powered Auto-Parking Car
megmag writes "A really cool project using a Linux P4 machine for automatic parking of a Volvo S60 was presented last week. Take a look at the video. That's how your parking problem should be solved. It is a final-year student project within the mechanical engineering department at Linköping University, Sweden."
For the inept :) Then again I know a few women (no offense) who could really use this. Especially suburbanites :)
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whenever it parks behind Darl McBride's car, it keeps on slamming the gas and ramming into it...I wonder why
cool, but i really could've done without the shirtless guy. wtf?
He can program a car to park itself, but he cant put on a shirt?
And here I was thinking that I might actually get to see the clip. But alas, all I saw was a 30 sec long logo. Silly me, I must be new here.
It crashed less than windows.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Gee, mine's still powered my gasoline.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Check out this high-speed parking manuever!
[obligatory /. MS bash complete]
This one gang kept wanting me to join cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
Arbitrary parallel parking? Man they use a beowulf cluster for everything.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
I personally prefer parking with a friend. Especially parallel parking.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
I tried this with my laptop running gentoo once. It worked pretty well until I hit a wifi hotspot and it found 3 updates and started compiling for 8 hours.
If a team of women had written the software ? hmmmm
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Write an article about linux parking your car - post the video in WMV format...
$699.00 per minute.
Only 25c, 10c and 5c coins accepted.
Meters enforced 24 hours.
Violators will be towed courtesy McBride Breakdown Services.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
but in Boston, that spot would be so gone before the guy even had a chance to get his shirt off, let alone exit the car.
If you can't parallel park, you shouldn't be licensed to drive.
:)
But I can see a practical application of this device : Device determins if driver is an incompetent moron who should never have been issued a license, and if that is the case, automatically pull over, park and cut power to the engine.
Imagine the look on the asshole tailgater's face when upon pulling up within inches of your bumper, is denied control of his car, and pulls over to the side of the road (perfectly parked of course.)
Or the moron who is in such a rush that he thinks red lights are optional.
Or my personal pet peeve, the idiots who think signals are optional, and that everyone should just guess what their next move will be...
yup, I think I'd enjoy having the road to myself
Clippy would say: "Looks like you are trying to parallel park. This feature is not currently installed. Please insert the Microsoft Parking CD."
Can it park in Prague?
And both non-existing cars were ma/parked in the fourth dimension.
Flourescent (adj): smelling like ground wheat.
If it could really park by itself, it would have to be able to do all of the following:
Until then, don't talk to me about self-parking cars.
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
Did they use any kind of three laws of robotic parking?
1. I will not squash a human being.
2. I will not dent another car, except when this can not be observed by a human being that I can not squash.
3. I will not hang with my shiny metal ass out in the traffic. Blow horn and rules #1 and #2 can hang.
4. Restricted
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
... never mind.
The key thing that people seem to be missing about this article is not the automation, but the fact that this is a *Linux Powered Car*. Bush has been pushing hydrogen, but Linux power is really the power of the 21st century.
Of course, I probably won't switch - my XML powered car has been working just fine for now.
Pathetic humans! Prepare to write down the recipe!
(Over company intercome)Could I have your attention? Someone left an unparked car out front with the motor still running. Did one of you engineers drive your wife's car again today?
I'll be really impressed when they can make it drive around the lot and find a space by itself.
C'mon, people. Why waste time with this shit? It's too late. The Segway is going to revolutionize the way we build cities and it's already here! Did you hear me? The way we build cities!
You know what?