Google's Self-Driving Golf Carts

This is part 3/3 of the keynote presentation by Sebastian Thrun and Chris Urmson on self-driving cars at IROS 2011. Part 1/3 is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ub5D.... Part 2/3 is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXylqt.... Read more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/ro... (Recorded using a pocket camcorder; apologies for the poor audio quality.)

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[Aqlor]

you spoke like a scientist but then you said "case closed."

[TheSaltyJohnson]

What do you mean "do your own legwork"? I'm not a biologist, doctor, or expert in the radiocommunications field... the only legwork I can do is by reading studies published by researchers who ARE experts in the relevant fields.

Non-ionizing radiation has absolutely no effect on chemical bonds. None. DNA mutations (with regards to radiation) are caused by external manipulation of chemical bonds... which can only be accomplished by ionizing radiation. Microwaves are non-ionizing. Case closed.

[delucs100]

Shouldn't they be using Chrome books soon?

[Nickolas Friedrich]

Soon people will no longer need to do anything and humans get fatter.

[tytygh]

Instead of using a Google ChromeBook for this, he uses an Apple MacBook for this. Haha!

[krirks]

seeing one of those at midnight must be CREEPY

[Loquendo911]

it will be easy to just high jack it!

[MilesGos]

So do tons of other people at Google.

[JoelB3783]

He's using a MacBook 0_0

[Zuggible]

1. The safety thresholds are based upon body temperature elevation, not carcinogenic effects.

2. The car relies more on LIDAR (lasers) and its camera than it does on radar.

3. We're already bombarded from so many sources by radio waves (cell phones+towers, radio stations, wifi, GPS, etc etc) that I doubt this would make much of a difference in exposure levels anyway.

[WE2TECH]

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[Pierre Delandre]

useless comment