DARPA - Stanford Stanley Vision System

[johnson1095]

That is very clever.

Stanford needs to start making cars

[snip3r64]

i agree with agungk, however I believe i read somewhere else that Stanley does primarily run Linux. I think people generally associate Linux with being very stable and very secure, although security doesn't really matter on an autonomous vehicle/robot because it doesn't require internet.

[ragonamuffin]

Thats really cool to see the way the computer sees the road. It makes sense it learns as your driving. I bet in the future, these systems will run linux, and have a huge repository with the data collected. Essentially giving every car in the world the same vast knowledge of the roads. It would be like combining every persons knowledge of how to drive into one file, theoretically making a better driver than any human could be.

[agungk]

why everything has to run linux?

linux is just an operating system. a resource manager for the computer infrastructure. however, the heart of the system, the vision sub-system, the navigation sub-system would probably run better on non-traditional (i.e. sequential) computers. probably multi-dimensional physical neural network.

[ubuntututorials]

"Everything" runs Linux because: - it's free - it's stable - it's well maintained - it's very customisable, because the source code is available - it'll run on *virtually* anything