Autonomous Sliding Parking

This video explains and demonstrates methods we have developed for executing a sliding parallel parking maneuver on a full size autonomous car. The system was developed in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.

A short video of just the sliding park itself is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_piO84... .

The paper describing the method in more detail, and additional videos, are available at: http://ai.stanford.edu/~kolter . The paper itself can be downloaded directly at: http://ai.stanford.edu/~kolter/lib/ex... .

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[KryptosV2]

Actual drift at 2:10

[Tys0nFawlay]

Winner nerds, I'd say.

[x3zinja12]

o_0

[maxlohsoundtracks]

music sucks, btw. 

[maxlohsoundtracks]

Integrate this algorithm with the google car

[AdoHaha]

same what happens when ordinary stunt drivers do it.

[adelle0001]

WTF!

[Firecul42]

Or you could just hire Ross Swift to teach it.

[Validole]

And that is why autonomous cars need to learn dealing with unexpected variables. And why they don't do these test's on the street...

[ekanipata]

what if, two autonomous cars try to win the same parking spot, and they acknowledge each other when they were beginning to accelerating their engine at 200mph already?

or, what if, some dude get off of his cars and walk right into the way during the high-speed maneuver of the autonomous car?

in case of ordinary drivers, we expect them to slow down when they were parking, right?

[Gevorg Movsisyan]

Крутяк !

[Matthew Mullins]

I think a lot of you are missing the point... I highly doubt they are making this so you can park your car in such a way. They already have cars that can park themselves in a safe manner. I'm sure they are doing this research to help avoid car accidents in the future. Basically, a computer can think faster than a human, and if they can program the car to understand complex dynamics, like sliding and such (like in the video) it could help save lives.