inside silver dome) to peer around a tight turn as it negotiates Beer Bottle Pass in the 2005 Grand Challenge race, followed by a Darpa chase vehicle. The autonomous Humvee drove the 132-mile
course at an average speed of 18.6 miles an hour but was bested by a slightly faster robot." data-pin-do="buttonBookmark">
MACHINE ON A MISSION, Sandstorm swivels its laser-scanning "eye" (inside silver dome) to peer around a tight turn as it negotiates Beer Bottle Pass in the 2005 Grand Challenge race, followed by a Darpa chase vehicle. The autonomous Humvee drove the 132-mile
course at an average speed of 18.6 miles an hour but was bested by a slightly faster robot.
Image: DARPA
The most valuable and complex component in a modern vehicle typically is also the most unreliable part of the system. Driving accidents usually have both a human cause and a human victim. To certain engineers--especially those who build robots--that is a problem with an obvious solution: replace the easily distracted, readily fatigued driver with an ever attentive, never tiring machine.
The U.S. military, which has been losing soldiers to roadside bombs in Iraq for several years, is particularly keen on this idea. But by 2002 more than a decade of military-funded research on autonomous ground vehicles had produced only a few slow and clumsy prototypes.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisStanford Computer Science Professor Sebastian Thrun along with Google's Eric Schmidt had involved into multiple crimes in Stanford, including murder of an innocent Stanford student May Zhou [ mayzhou.com ] during their fight with authorities from their own school in Stanford.
Thrun's side had tried every effort to cover up the case from the public. His bosses from Stanford Computer Science department, e.g. Professor Ed Feigenbaum had constantly intruded my privacy and destroied all my private relations in this world, and he had abused his power in scientific world to hype Thrun in name of Stanford Computer Sicence Department and AAAI.ORG; Thrun's student, Mr. David Stavens, had lied to Stanford police on behalf of Thrun's side trying to prevent me from filing complain at authorities against their crimes.
Sebastian Thrun had not paid for his crimes and he would have to.
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