Stanford robot car "Junior" in action, DARPA Urban Challenge

im suprised there isnt more attention on this sort of thing.

its gotta be almost the same as when planes came out, i mean if a car company could suddenly sell a car to any person even a 15 yr old, their market just grew by like 60%

think about all the rich kids that got mobile phones, and if you could retro fit any car with a automatic moduel, there is so much money in that industry, i cant believe the grant is only 2million or watever.

por fin una alternativa para las mujeres en el volante, al final fueron lo hombres los que encontraron la solución... de esta forma las mujeres tendran mas tiempo para pensar sobre las compras que deban hacer del supermercado y llevarlo a casa... jejeje... es solo una broma... me gusta este proyecto

because the females can't drive haha snap

I doubt that rigged card like this will cost much. Equipment itself is cheap, research done over years is costly. Because applications for cars like this are vast the price will go down as more businesses people will buy them. Taxis, lorries, there are so many uses, they just need to proove that statistically cars like this are safer than manned ones. And because you don't need a driver, savings are incredible.

Idiot. Do you even look at what's around you? Computers now would have cost billions years ago. Now almost anyone can buy them. Things go down in price as more people buy them.

Would have been fucking hilarious if it just came and ran him over right at the end lmao

The only idiot here is you. Moore s law (do you even know whats that?) only applies to computers and not lidars, high accuracy gps and so on. If you don t undestand shit about this subject shut up!

it doesnt cost a million dollars.

ok maybe not 1 million dollars, but doing an simplistic analysis whe can see that: the lidars cost around 70k, the high accuracy gps 40k, the servers around 10k, the car itself 20k, the electromechanical set around 50k if not more, so the final price of the product will be very prohibitive. In my opinion the inicial cost of the car will be the big drawnback of this technology and not technical or legal issues. Anyway, just my opinion.

give it 10 more years .. the computer side of this technology will be dirt cheap !