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Stanford Robot Car Capable of Slide Parking

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-human-would-drift-like-that dept.

kkleiner writes "Stanford's Junior, the robot car that took second place at DARPA's Grand Challenge in 2007, has learned how to perform a tire-squealing 180-degree spin into a skin-tight parking space. Similar to a James Bond action scene, the maneuver is impressive and would be extremely difficult for a human to pull off. We won't be handing the keys over to robot cars anytime soon, but Stanford shows us that at least for some driving tasks robot cars can already meet or even exceed human ability."

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  1. Rude-bot by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    To counter, I'm inventing the Automatic Finger to quickly signal my frustration at being cut-off from my parking spot.

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  2. Toyota by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Funny

    We won't be handing the keys over to robot cars anytime soon

    Heh.....let's work on getting cars to stop reliably before we start talking about that

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  3. Re:Three Points by AdmiralXyz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I detect insecurity in your tone, human.

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  4. Turbo Boost by sanman2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that the tire-squealing precision-skidding has been mastered, we just need the turbo boost and the annoying nasal voice synthesizer to round out the look and feel.

    1. Re:Turbo Boost by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Damn robots with their sagging cases, showing the whole god damn world their CPUs. Get the hell off my lawn before I call Bruce Schnier on your asses!

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    2. Re:Turbo Boost by Barny · · Score: 3, Funny

      Your hostillity toward the Computer has been noted citizen, please report to the "armour testing lab" for re-assignment.

      Praise the computer!

      note: that is the lab right beside "exotic unstable weapons testing" lab.

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  5. Impressive... by Eil · · Score: 5, Funny

    But where's the style? I thought it was common knowledge that the very first thing you're supposed to do after you've programmed a park to screech into a parking space is install a loudspeaker behind the grille which yells out, "heeeee-like a glove!"

  6. VW's luxury brother already poked fun at this... by 1984 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... before it even happened. A few Lexus introduced the automatic parallel parking feature, and Audi responded with this:

          http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3593724097279407250#

    Amusing retort. Irrelevant for 99.9%+ of people, but sold right into the person you'd love to be.

  7. Re:Just a few points... by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 5, Funny

    While I don't intend any sexism

    I guess it must just come naturally then.

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  8. Re:Umm... I have a question. by chromas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doesn't matter—they always explode just as you're approaching them.

  9. So... by durrr · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the future, not only will cars drive themselves, they will do so in the most action packed manner possible.
    I'm looking for funding to put ramps and pyrotechnics all over national highways.