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NOVA - The Great Robot Race (DARPA Grand Challenge)

submitted by Doc_M

1 decade 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago

Completely autonomous robot cars race through a rough, twisting desert road course in DARPA's Grand Challenge. This NOVA feature shows the race and explains how the best robots work and think.

AFTER you watch this, you can watch this:
This is the winner's description of the race and his robot
Here is also the last vid-log of the winner discussing the race and his win.

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Great post. Just watched the whole thing. Autonomous vehicles are fascinating to me.

I think we'll start to see it as a feature on high-end cars within 15 years. The implications will be huge for society.

People will live 6 hours drive from work and have beds installed in the back.

I gotta say, Red Whittacker, as motivated as he is, seems like a real ass...a huge ass and I'm glad he lost. I feel sorry for his slave laborer grad students, lol, and he's still brilliant, but he's still a jerk. He DID in fact win this year's urban challenge however. I'm looking for that video.
AND, Red's robot had the route PROGRAMMED IN, entirely. cheap, if smart.

I really admire the group that DID win this one. Very cool professor and voluntarily dedicated students. Ideal.
Whittacker is a business man. Thrun is a scientist. Nuf said.

*documentary?

I agree with you Doc. Red design sucked. What would be the benefit from a self driving vehicle if you need a team to program its route hours beforehand?
I'm glad Stanford won, they deserved it.

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