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Robot-driven cars on roads by 2030: scientist
Breitbart.com ^ | 02-17-07 | WestVirginiaRebel

Posted on 02/17/2007 7:24:17 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel

Scientists are developing the next generation of robot-driven cars and predict they could be shuttlign humans around by the year 2030, a conference was told.

The first wave of intelligent robot cars, capable of understanding and reacting to the world around them, will be tested this November in a competition run by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cars; technology
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KITT gets competition!

1 posted on 02/17/2007 7:24:18 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Doesn't Al Gore already drive?


2 posted on 02/17/2007 7:26:14 PM PST by COBOL2Java ("No stronger retrograde force exists in the world" - Winston Churchill on Islam)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
Intelligent robot cars will be nice.

By the way -- where is the flying car that I was promised? They were due by 2000, right?

3 posted on 02/17/2007 7:26:21 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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4 posted on 02/17/2007 7:30:33 PM PST by AntiGuv ("..I do things for political expediency.." - Sen. John McCain on FOX News)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

No thanks; I actually enjoy driving.


5 posted on 02/17/2007 7:31:58 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

We've been able to do this for some time actually. Think about it. If you have a micro-controller like basicstamp that can run motors based on the stimulus around them...


6 posted on 02/17/2007 7:34:03 PM PST by Shaun_MD ("You can't trust Freedom when it's not in your hands" - Guns & Roses)
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To: Blue Jays
Hi All-

Everyone will climb in a car and it will go to destinations without direct intervention. We have that now, we call it a PASSENGER TRAIN for crying out loud!

~ Blue Jays ~

7 posted on 02/17/2007 7:34:14 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Army Air Corps

that's too bad, because by then the nanny state will probably have decided for you that a robot is safer.


8 posted on 02/17/2007 7:36:01 PM PST by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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To: verum ago

Also, I can see sicko hackers getting their twisted jollies via viruses that cause numerous collisions.


9 posted on 02/17/2007 7:41:36 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

In other news, we will have domed cities by 1980, and even as we speak, hogs are sprouting wings.


10 posted on 02/17/2007 7:41:49 PM PST by tickmeister (tickmeister)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Here ya go : )
11 posted on 02/17/2007 7:42:55 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel-Robert Frost)
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To: tickmeister

mmmmm... hog wings sounds like a great food....


12 posted on 02/17/2007 7:45:07 PM PST by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
By the way -- where is the flying car that I was promised? They were due by 2000, right?

Looks like certification for the Moller Skycar is anticipated by the end of next year. Taking deposits for purchase now!

http://www.moller.com/newm.htm

http://www.moller.com/purc.htm

13 posted on 02/17/2007 7:46:30 PM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Cool.

I'll be getting to old the drive about then.


14 posted on 02/17/2007 7:48:21 PM PST by dman4384
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To: Luke Skyfreeper

I think I read somewhere that there were actually a number of problems associated with flying cars, not the least of which were air travel regulations and too many car jets causing turbulance.


15 posted on 02/17/2007 7:51:40 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel-Robert Frost)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
Coming this Fall:

http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/overview.asp

16 posted on 02/17/2007 7:52:27 PM PST by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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To: COBOL2Java

I see an obstacle there: human drivers know that blasphemy and profanity are indispensable to driving, especially under the stressful conditions. And I am not sure that the robots are up to this aspect of the task.


17 posted on 02/17/2007 7:53:40 PM PST by GSlob
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To: GSlob

Does this mean I won't need a license to drive my car - if the robot is actually doing all the driving?


18 posted on 02/17/2007 7:56:58 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: tickmeister

I would like a flying car that flies itself.


19 posted on 02/17/2007 7:58:03 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

I'm sure there *are* a number of problems associated with flying cars. There are problems with any new technology. It took more than 15 years after the first actual product launch to produce the first really good version version of Microsoft Windows. That's just part of the new-technology game.

That being the case, I doubt the current early-in-the-game problems are going to prevent flying cars from eventually, um, taking off.


20 posted on 02/17/2007 8:02:08 PM PST by Luke Skyfreeper
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