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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. Old news is old.... by kidgenius · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is from what, Thursday? Friday? Geeze....catch up guys.

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

    This is not insightful, you morons!

    Karganeth is stupid and you're carrying him on a chair. Bunch of...

    Meanwhile, good AC comments get zero.

    Hey, it would be nice if there was a page with the same content but correct scores...

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

    How ironic, I complain about wrong categorization and get one wrong myself.

    Maybe /. is unmanned, too...