China Catches Up With Google's Driverless Car

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 11, 2011 @10:30AM from the OK-but-it's-just-following-the-wall dept.

mikejuk writes "While Google makes headlines with its driverless car and even manages to lobby Nevada to legalize driverless cars on the public road — China quietly pushes ahead on its own. A driverless car navigated 286km of expressway all on its own. Using nothing but a pair of video cameras and laser rangefinders, i.e. no GPS, it managed to arrive safely even through fog. The computer vision based approach means that at the moment it can only drive during daylight hours. Google might need to speed up ..."

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Re:Catches up? Yeah right... by i_b_don · 2011-08-11 11:52 · Score: 4, Insightful

LOL.... I got my masters in engineering from USC about 10 years back... I looked around the room and typically I was the only blond person there. I'd estimate that 75% of the people were of asian decent (Indian, and various asian countries). They're not coming to steal the research, they're coming to do the research!
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