"they've already got positioning equipment all around the track"
Well then it's hardly the case that the robot/computer is independently driving the car in the way people do, is it? If the computer gets to have "positioning equipment" then the human driver should get something similar: put his car on fucking rails!
Look, this is so obviously impossible I can't believe anybody here fell for it. In Japan they are making a really big deal over the fact that they've got a robot that can CLIMB STAIRS. Now you think some Aussies are going to build one that can DRIVE A RACE CAR?!?!
COME ON!! The required computer vision technology is decades away. By comparison, landing a 747 is child's play! F1 drivers perform at the absolute limit of human perceptual/physilogical capabilities. There is no way on Earth that any computer vision system could possibly process the data produced by such a situation. Huge gobs of visual data need to be processed on a millisecond by millisecond basis by the brain.
We might see computers/robots driving REGULAR cars slowly in 20 years or so but don't count on it.
Don't be a sucker--this is the kind of thinking that Jaeon Lanier has been warning people about recently.
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"they've already got positioning equipment all around the track" Well then it's hardly the case that the robot/computer is independently driving the car in the way people do, is it? If the computer gets to have "positioning equipment" then the human driver should get something similar: put his car on fucking rails!
This post is a hoax. If you are really a student there then what is his class schedule?
Look, this is so obviously impossible I can't believe anybody here fell for it. In Japan they are making a really big deal over the fact that they've got a robot that can CLIMB STAIRS. Now you think some Aussies are going to build one that can DRIVE A RACE CAR?!?! COME ON!! The required computer vision technology is decades away. By comparison, landing a 747 is child's play! F1 drivers perform at the absolute limit of human perceptual/physilogical capabilities. There is no way on Earth that any computer vision system could possibly process the data produced by such a situation. Huge gobs of visual data need to be processed on a millisecond by millisecond basis by the brain. We might see computers/robots driving REGULAR cars slowly in 20 years or so but don't count on it. Don't be a sucker--this is the kind of thinking that Jaeon Lanier has been warning people about recently.