Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver

Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver 197

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 05 2010, @02:13PM
from the zoom-zoom-splat dept.

Scifi83 writes "A team of researchers at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) has filled the trunk of an Audi TTS with computers and GPS receivers, transforming it into a vehicle that drives itself. The car will attempt Pikes Peak without a driver at race speeds, something that's never been done."

This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver

Search 197 Comments Log In/Create an Account

Comments Filter:

Note to Self (Score:5, Insightful)

by Kozar_The_Malignant (738483) writes: on Friday February 05 2010, @02:19PM (#31037102)

Observe trials from uphill side of road.

Share
twitter facebook
PP is an exciting road (Score:5, Insightful)

by smellsofbikes (890263) writes: on Friday February 05 2010, @02:21PM (#31037134) Journal

Having raced up Pikes Peak myself, I think this is pretty impressive. The road surface varies from almost-pavement-quality treated packed dirt, to completely loose gravel on rut-filled rock, with (as I recall) an average 10% climb. It'd be a great test ground for offroad stuff at a slow speed with nobody else on the road, but doing it at full speed requires a *lot* more than just the ability to see where the roadway is: giving a robot the ability to keep a fast car from skidding/sliding on loose gravel on an off-camber turn appears to me to be a wholly different type of challenge than previous autonomous driving projects.

Share
twitter facebook
Re:Note to Self (Score:5, Insightful)

by nacturation (646836) * writes: <nacturation@gmai[ ]om ['l.c' in gap]> on Friday February 05 2010, @02:28PM (#31037246) Journal

Observe trials from uphill side of road.
No kidding. If ever a story deserved a "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag...

Parent Share
twitter facebook
Re:PP is an exciting road (Score:4, Insightful)

by Tiger4 (840741) writes: on Friday February 05 2010, @02:33PM (#31037306)

Rapid reaction time, good slide slip sensors, and some great counterintuitive steering routines are all going to be essential if this is going to be "at race speeds". Good trained drivers screw this kind of thing up all the time. A robot can be programmed to be repeatable, but is this one flexible enough to conditions to be fast AND safe?
Look out below!

Parent Share
twitter facebook
Re:W1N vs. FA1L (Score:5, Insightful)

by Carik (205890) writes: on Friday February 05 2010, @02:41PM (#31037422)

Easy. Watching it succeed will be more astonishing.
Watching it fail will be more entertaining (assuming some safety precautions preventing anyone from being killed).

Parent Share
twitter facebook
Re:PP is an exciting road (Score:1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday February 05 2010, @02:46PM (#31037480)

...and some great counterintuitive steering routines...

I didn't realize programs/algorithms/AI could distinguish between 'intuitive' and 'counterintuitive'.

Parent Share
twitter facebook
Re:Audi?! (Score:5, Insightful)

by Tiger4 (840741) writes: on Friday February 05 2010, @03:00PM (#31037620)

Audi, specifically Audi Quattros, have been rally car favorites for years. Big engine, good tranny, four wheel drive. There are a lot of people that know how to get them running well, and the cars are built well to do the job.

Parent Share
twitter facebook
Re:Bravery (Score:3, Insightful)

by Fnord666 (889225) writes: on Friday February 05 2010, @04:38PM (#31039014) Journal

It seems like it would be braver to have no driver but still have a passenger.

Maybe they could require the development team to ride along. I'll bet the quality of the code would go way up.

Parent Share
twitter facebook
Re:Time to market (Score:3, Insightful)

by clonan (64380) writes: on Friday February 05 2010, @04:55PM (#31039232)

This is GPS navigation only. The article makes no mention of visual processing. Without much better "eyes" these cars will just run you over follwoing the map....
This is only safe because it is a closed road.

Parent Share
twitter facebook
Re:Explanation (Score:3, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday February 05 2010, @06:26PM (#31040448)

some people feel the need to bring political bashing into every conversation. How useless!

Parent Share
twitter facebook

There may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead.

Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver 197

Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver More Login

Robotic Audi To Brave Pikes Peak Without a Driver

Note to Self (Score:5, Insightful)

PP is an exciting road (Score:5, Insightful)

Re:Note to Self (Score:5, Insightful)

Re:PP is an exciting road (Score:4, Insightful)

Re:W1N vs. FA1L (Score:5, Insightful)

Re:PP is an exciting road (Score:1, Insightful)

Re:Audi?! (Score:5, Insightful)

Re:Bravery (Score:3, Insightful)

Re:Time to market (Score:3, Insightful)

Re:Explanation (Score:3, Insightful)

Related Links Top of the: day, week, month.

Slashdot