Comments on: Urban Robot Race http://docinthemachine.com/2006/12/15/urban-robot-race/ Transforming medicine and fertility with tomorrow’s technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:46:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Letter Never Sent by Chris Sivori » When cars get personal http://docinthemachine.com/2006/12/15/urban-robot-race/#comment-33684 Letter Never Sent by Chris Sivori » When cars get personal Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:55:14 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/12/15/urban-robot-race/#comment-33684 [...] DARPA has funded a project over the last several years to promote the development of autonomous driving vehicles. We have developed systems that can successfully drive cross-country. In November 2007, DARPA’s Urban challenge will take place on a course with traffic. The autonomous vehicles will need to avoid other cars and obey normal traffic laws. It will consist of a 60 mile course on primarily paved roads, but this time, the vehicles will have to drive in traffic. They will have to stop at stop signs, look for other vehicles, obey the rules of precedence at intersections, obey traffic laws (don’t cross double yellow center lines), pass other stationary and slow moving cars, back up, park, make a U-turn and plan a new course when the main road is blocked, and take evasive action if a collision with another vehicle is imminent. Sort of makes a 132 mile drive on a closed course in the desert seem like a walk in the park. [...] [...] DARPA has funded a project over the last several years to promote the development of autonomous driving vehicles. We have developed systems that can successfully drive cross-country. In November 2007, DARPA’s Urban challenge will take place on a course with traffic. The autonomous vehicles will need to avoid other cars and obey normal traffic laws. It will consist of a 60 mile course on primarily paved roads, but this time, the vehicles will have to drive in traffic. They will have to stop at stop signs, look for other vehicles, obey the rules of precedence at intersections, obey traffic laws (don’t cross double yellow center lines), pass other stationary and slow moving cars, back up, park, make a U-turn and plan a new course when the main road is blocked, and take evasive action if a collision with another vehicle is imminent. Sort of makes a 132 mile drive on a closed course in the desert seem like a walk in the park. [...]

]]> By: Risky Business:Why DARPA Does What Medical Industry Won’t » docinthemachine http://docinthemachine.com/2006/12/15/urban-robot-race/#comment-1101 Risky Business:Why DARPA Does What Medical Industry Won’t » docinthemachine Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:26:34 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/12/15/urban-robot-race/#comment-1101 [...] New trauma surgery development is here and remote vehicles as prototypes of implantable rovers here.   « Kurzweil: Computers Will Enable People To Live Forever (if the machines let us…) |   [...] [...] New trauma surgery development is here and remote vehicles as prototypes of implantable rovers here.   « Kurzweil: Computers Will Enable People To Live Forever (if the machines let us…) |   [...]

]]> By: THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER http://docinthemachine.com/2006/12/15/urban-robot-race/#comment-774 THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER Sat, 16 Dec 2006 04:01:34 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/12/15/urban-robot-race/#comment-774 <strong>Robot race in traffic</strong> It took only a year for a university team to built a robot car that could complete a DARPA cross-country race without a major failure. Next year's 60-mile race could be a lot harder, and some of the participants could... Robot race in traffic

It took only a year for a university team to built a robot car that could complete a DARPA cross-country race without a major failure. Next year’s 60-mile race could be a lot harder, and some of the participants could…

]]> By: Dick Stanley http://docinthemachine.com/2006/12/15/urban-robot-race/#comment-773 Dick Stanley Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:58:15 +0000 http://docinthemachine.com/2006/12/15/urban-robot-race/#comment-773 Hmm. Not sure I'd want to be an unwitting participant in that race. Hmm. Not sure I’d want to be an unwitting participant in that race.

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