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Stanford's Autonomous DeLorean Can't Time Travel, But It Can Do Donuts (stanford.edu)
Zothecula jumps on the "Back To the Future Day" bandwagon with this news about Stanford's experimental DeLorean. Gizmag reports: "It doesn't have a flux capacitor and may not be able to travel through time like its inspiration in the 1985 feature Back to the Future, but Stanford University's converted DeLorean Multiple Actuator Research Test bed for Yaw (MARTY) can cut some wicked donuts without the aid of a driver. The creation of professor of mechanical engineering Chris Gerdes and his students, the autonomous, electric, drifting automotive research vehicle is part of a student-driven research project into the physical limits of autonomous driving that aims to improve the safe operation of self-driving cars under all conditions."
October 12th? Did you use a time traveling DeLorean to post?
Is there something wrong with the Earth's gravity?
Dynamic driving where traction is lost is both difficult and a necessary problem to solve for self-drivers.
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here...
Left MS Windows for Linux Mint and never looked back!
Vote for Bernie in 2016!
...you're going to see some serious shit.
Left MS Windows for Linux Mint and never looked back!
Vote for Bernie in 2016!
Accept no substitutes!
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
Marty: "Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a (drifting autopilot test bed) ... out of a DeLorean?"
Doc: "Yes, the way I see it, if you're gonna build a (drifting autopilot test bed) into a car, why not do it with some style?"
Looks like a deadman switch.
If so, it has to be held down to let the computer keep doing what it wants to. That way, if the car does something that jars the backup driver away from the switch, the car stops, rather than continuing on some wild and dangerous runaway activity.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way