Robot Wars – with Serious Implications
First, read this.
My inner geek reads this and thinks, “Cool! I want one!”
The bloke in me thinks, “Excellent! I can read the paper on the way to work (over 50 miles each way) and have a pint before ‘driving’ home.”
However, I also love driving. And I think that by the time my kids are old enough to learn to drive, they won’t be allowed to. As Arthur C Clarke once said (and I’m sorry, but I can’t remember where) it won’t be long before “driving a car on the public roads” will be illegal.
Go Stanford! I think it’s great. Hey, Lexus has begun to sell cars that will parallel park themselves.
Comment by Drie — October 31, 2006 @ 9:28 pm
It was a great advert for Volkswagen: H1ghlander only failed to finish first because of a problem with the Hummer’s engine. It’s software was navigating it across the desert far faster than Stanford’s Touareg.
And next year’s challenge is going to be worth watching: robots using the public roads…
Comment by Grumpy Old Man — November 1, 2006 @ 6:00 am