An "intelligent co-pilot" for cars

Read more about this new semiautonomous safety system developed by Sterling Anderson, a PhD student in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Karl Iagnemma, a principal research scientist in MIT's Robotic Mobility Group:

MIT News: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/me...

The team's paper: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articl...

A series of blog posts by Sterling Anderson on Design Impact: http://www.design-impact.org/blog/?s=...

Videos & animations courtesy MIT's Robotic Mobility Group and Quantum Signal, LLC (http://www.quantumsignal.com).

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[aziz ben]

but whait if an accident happens with this system on, who gets the blame?

[wawisconsalsita]

Aprende inglés idiota.

[Adnowwwwn]

Oh I get it. This is bullshit advertising for MIT.

[crisis1records]

wut if u needed to run from something?

[MegF142857]

Kind of like anti-lock brakes kick in? There to augment your braking. This is to augment other aspects of driving.

[neptune2100]

Way to go, MIT! I would love to have this system on the cars my kids drive. As a parent, it would be nice to go to bed at night knowing that even if one of them makes a stupid mistake, doesn't see an oncoming car, etc., the control system will be there to correct things.

To commenters like AdrianPilbrow, what on earth makes you think the co-pilot would do something as dumb as what you've described? Makes me wonder whether you even watched/understood the video.

[adrianpilbrow]

No thanks. So I approach a corner too fast, try to turn "too sharply for my speed", computer says no, turns off the steering and I go straight ahead through the corner?

[Neolisk]

Top comments should be in a language that everybody can understand, so pick either English or Russian, please... :)

[Rusich6233]

круто ахуенно, хочу себе на жигуль такой