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VW Raises the Bar for Self-Driving Vehicles
Old Man Kensey writes "According to the UK Daily Mail, VW has produced a prototype Golf (code-named "53 plus 1" in a reference to Herbie the Love Bug) that successfully steers and accelerates itself at speeds up to 150 MPH on tracks designed on the spot without pre-programming. It sounds almost too good to be true given some of the problems CMU's prototype has had over the years, but perhaps VW has learned from and extended CMU's research (and within-an-inch GPS positioning probably helps too)."
Self-Driving Vehicle promptly hits the bar, gets thoroughly oiled and rolls off into the red light district looking for a "service".
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A tunnel?!?! OHhh NOOOOoooooo...!!
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Does this mean we won't be seeing the "Drivers wanted" slogan anymore?
This would imply to me that the position has been filled.
Well, when I saw that the German -> English translation was almost readable, I decided to run it through English -> Arabic/Chinese/Jananese/Russian/Italian/French -> English.
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.