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To: DUMBGRUNT
Here's Why That Autonomous Race Car Crashed Straight Into a Wall

A little bit of bad code caused a hilariously unfortunate crash. https://www.thedrive.com/news/37366/why-that-autonomous-race-car-crashed-straight-into-a-wall

9 posted on 11/01/2020 7:41:34 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo
https://www.thedrive.com/news/37366/why-that-autonomous-race-car-crashed-straight-into-a-wall
10 posted on 11/01/2020 7:43:21 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Nice find!

The engineer confirmed that the vehicle telemetry reported back the invalid data, however, it was not flagged as being invalid and was missed by the vehicle operators.

The old divide by zero problem, NaN, PILOT ERROR!!! RECALCULATING!

17 posted on 11/01/2020 8:23:21 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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