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Helicopter Crashes While Filming Autonomous Audi

Posted by timothy on from the send-robot-ambulances dept.

telomerewhythere writes "A helicopter commissioned by Audi to film its autonomous Audi TT climbing Pikes Peak crashed early this morning. Four people on board were hurt, the pilot seriously. It's a surreal story — a manned vehicle crashes while the one climbing a mountain driven only by computers and sensors carries on. Here's more on the autonomous Audi, a project undertaken with the help of Stanford University."

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  1. Re:Before jumping to conclusions.... by CarpetShark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Flying @ 14,000' elevation aint easy for a helicopter

    Irrelevant. The helicopter was given a pep-talk before take-off. Neither the confidence nor this determination of the helicopter were factors in the crash, and its endurance was second to none, as it has a lusty wife.

  2. Re:Surreal? by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ceci n'est pas un helicoptere

  3. Re:Uber-silly by Marcika · · Score: 5, Funny

    As soon as it can be proven that a car can drive better than a person when the person is trying their best to drive safely, cars will be favoured, since we know people sometimes deliberately drive wrecklessly.

    The problem is not with the people who actually try to drive wrecklessly -- it is with the rest of them, the ones who drive recklessly....