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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."

2 of 218 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Surreal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You just ask the giraffe at the cyclic.

  2. Re:So the weak point in the system is...... by flyneye · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just goes to show, you're only as autonomous as the mystery helicopters behind you watching your every move.
    But then they've been following me for years. I think it's Christian Scientologists trying to get me to join Jews for Jesus...

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