Winning The DARPA Grand Challenge

Google TechTalks
August 2, 2006

Sebastian Thrun

ABSTRACT
The DARPA grand challenge, technical details enabling Sebastian Thrun's win, and an introduction to the next phase called "The Urban Grand Challenge".

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• darpa
• google
• howto

[hyretech]

Nice technical details.

Colleges are now realizing that students are showing preferences in applying to schools that have grand challenge entries.

[jch31384]

some of the rocket technology used to reach the moon was developed in nazi germany, should that cause you to question your views of the nazis? i'm saying our military is similar or anywhere near as bad. it's always a good idea to be weary of something bigger & stronger than you are. yeah our military has done a lot of good, but on the other hand look at how many nuclear devices they've detonated in such places as us states and in the ocean. both places with life that could be adversely effected

[2011rhythmdivine]

Google Tech Talks is a great and fun idea geared towards information drive.

[mepowell46]

47:28 >>Assuming the self-guided cars have the same breaking and steering capability as any current car they are not the answer to this problem. The car still needs to be able to avoid an accident, which it would not be able to do if it left 50% less space between itself and the car in front of it. Increasing the highway throughput from 8% of the pixels to 16% of the pixels by making self-guided cars would increase the rate of automobile accidents unless the cars could break harder...spilt milk.

[davepamn]

Cool

The autonomous vehicle must learn how to perceive speed, distance, and obstacle avoidance. Machine learning and probability played an important role in navigation. The autonomous vehicle must be able to interact with other vehicles on the road.

[RicardoR5]

19:19 Lol killing students in the name of science would be funny XD

[ludlumdre]

if we consider the fact that the military has technology at least five years ahead of public knowledge we should all be very scared.............if you are not american

[danieleriskay]

I appreciate your comments, and while I agree that engineers who were forced to work for the Nazis did end up coming to the United States after World War 2. I don't have any problem with this; I'm not sure the world would have been better had the Stalinists kidnapped them.

Beyond that, something very little known is that the scientist who had the largest influence on the German rocket engineers was actually American: Robert Goddard.

[jch31384]

CORRECTION: i'm NOT saying our military is similar or anywhere near as bad. i went over 500 characters, and accidentally removed the 'not'.

[jch31384]

it doesn't take much...