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Driverless car self-parks, more wizardry on the way
The days of driverless cars just got a whole lot closer. Volkswagen has now teamed up with Stanford University, plunking down $5.75 million to create the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory. To kick things off, the company showed off its robotic Passat, which not only drives itself but is now clever enough to parallel park on its own.
That Passat has gotten smarter since it finished second in the 2007 DARPA urban challenge, where robotic cars merged into moving traffic, negotiated busy intersections and avoided all kinds of obstacles.
This is not the only place this kind of research is going on — Nissan has some clever innovations underway, too. Soon, humans won't be allowed to drive cars.
Via CNET
By classy at 3:57 PM ON 10/28/09
personally ic an't wait till we get an irobot or minority report situation.. i hate driving and driving around bad drivers is even worst.. this should solve all our problmes.. they would essentially become pods
By Travis at 4:33 PM ON 10/28/09
Yeah... expensive, especially given the ~$75,000 Velodyne laser sitting on the top of the car:
http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/01/04/velodyne-hdl-64e-laser-rangefinder-lidar-pseudo-disassembled
By Old Man Dotes at 7:23 PM ON 10/28/09
"Soon, humans won't be allowed to drive cars."
Considering the humans I have to deal with on my morning and evening commute every weekday, the end of human drivers can't arrive too soon for me.
By Seattle DUI lawyer/attorney at 1:45 PM ON 10/29/09
This idea is so crazy to me! When humans do not need to drive cars...will kids still have to wait until they are 16 to get a license??
By Auto Transport Services at 12:07 PM ON 11/04/09
Haha. Great post Seattle. I wonder the same thing. Hopefully they will still have to meet the age requirements...
By Rob at 4:09 PM ON 11/06/09
Wow, robots driving: I sure hope they get all the bugs out of that particular system, or I would not want to be in the back seat of a 6-lane highway doing 70 when my robot driver short-circuits...
By Auto Transport Services at 3:14 PM ON 11/30/09
Yeah, agreed Rob
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