Comments [2] posted: Feb 05, 2010 Greg O'Byrne

Stanford has competed in the DARPA grand challenge and won it in the past, now they are planning to race a car up Pikes Peak at race speeds.  The car will be controlled entirely by GPS therefore it is not quite as impressive as the integrated monitoring systems such as the roof mounted LIDAR that their “Stanley” car incorporated, but the speed of ascent is  Impressive in its own right.

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Cool beans.


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tags: [automotive | autonomous | cars | DARPA | race]


Sunday, February 07, 2010 11:51:58 PM UTC
The Berkeley guys could have been first, but it's a lot harder to automate a VW bus full of weed :)
Relmerator
Friday, February 12, 2010 12:16:26 AM UTC
I wonder how the stanford vehicle would do if someone accidentally put a trash can in the middle of the road, hmmm....

Programming a robot to follow a predefined course, guided by GPS, really is not that impressive.
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