Stanford's Autonomous Car Gets A Workout

[lovelplants]

very good.

[adelle0001]

nice one!

[grunder20]

cool car! i wanna have one!

[agapitoflores001]

yeah! cool car. I wanna have that and drive it myself.

[envelope91]

Haha in the future people will sit at home with a controller, and watching a screen that shows a REAL car being driven by yourself! Talk about realism ;)

[VtBudgies]

PEOPLE WILL STILL NEED DRIVERS LICENSES TO TAKE OVER JUST IN CASE PROBABLY MORE POLITICAL ISSUE THAN FUNCTIONAL ONE BUT STILL! NO BLIND PERSON OR BABY IS RIDING IN THE CAR ALONE SORRY!

[normahS]

@VtBudgies

OMG! Your post must be more filled with important facts and stuff since you wrote it all in caps!

Why did you see the need to yell? Would you do that in a normal social situation away from the pc and the internet? No. Stop yelling, it makes you look really stupid.

[rileytoole]

... and the designers are confident enough now in their systems to carry passengers in the car, under autonomous control, at those speeds.

[rileytoole]

When you compare this video and the recent video of the Google car, slaloming cones, to the Darpa Urban Challenge video from 2007, you can see how far autonomous car control has come; they are travelling much, much faster now.

[Koruephiroth]

If your parents' car had this technology,you wouldn't have to take the bus to go to school or somewhere else. Minors without a driver's license can greatly benefit from this, as their not restricted anymore by the limits of public transport!!

[StTheDoctor]

Stanford Industries Two Thousand. S.I.T.T. for easy reference or Sitt, if you prefer.

[StreetKingEvolution]

Its for people who wish they could drive well.

[DualShooter]

@MikeFromTheUK1 *car crashes through door of supermarket*

"DESTROY, DESTROY, DESTROY"

[bbenjoe]

@MikeFromTheUK1

 / A never to be released deleted scene./

[johnson1095]

So are they controlling the car from far away or is it a legit robot car?

[slackslider]

@johnson1095 Autonomous; Meaning self-controlled. It scans the road and calculates what to do all on its own.

[NuclearRadio]

@johnson1095 : It's a droid car. No people.

[joaquinveyron]

Yuck. This would be Michael Schumacher jobless.

[bboyat0m1c]

how fast can it go moving stable?

[jcurnes]

oohhhh yea :-)

[jnwpse]

Swweeet. What control system is used? OS, computer and what not

[luckystrike1]

They use an Xbox 360 controller and a P3 PC with Windows 95.

[CyberneticianDave]

@luckystrike1 ROFL! HA HA HA HA! If only it was true!

[Salger12]

@luckystrike1 That's Stanford for you lol

[rocket91940]

@luckystrike1 Fair enough for a Vag haha