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Linux-Powered Auto-Parking Car

Posted by timothy on from the safe-in-a-crash dept.

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."

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  1. Funny, but if you look at the lines on the ground by rsidd · · Score: 4, Informative

    it looks like cars are supposed to park perpendicular to the edge there, not parallel. But both existing cars were also marked parallel.

  2. mirror by Chalex · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a mirror of the 3.84MB video.

  3. More information by Creamsickle · · Score: 5, Informative

    One of the students on the project is actually the kid of an old friend of mine. In case you're wondering, the Linux system they are using is a custom system based on the Gentoo-HA (High Availability) distribution. In addition to parking cars, the optimized P4 box is also allegedly used for many games of Quake. :)

    Also, according to my friend, large quantities of pizza were consumed as an essential part of this project.

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  4. Toyota by pyreblade · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is exciting and all, but the Japanese version of the Toyota Prius already does this.

    1. Re:Toyota by iggy3 · · Score: 4, Informative

      cool inventions 2003: Parking Space Invaders

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    2. Re:Toyota by gearry · · Score: 5, Informative

      If you RTFA, and then read this, you will see that what the two cars do is quite different. The Prius requires quite a bit of user interaction, whereas the system engineered with Volvo appears to require very little driver interaction, as well as the flexibility to be applied in vehicles with different steering systems.

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