Google Cars Drive Themselves, In Traffic 293
An anonymous reader noted that "At the TED 2011 conference this week, Google has been giving extremely rare demos of its self-driving cars. TED attendees have even been allowed to travel inside them, on a closed course. The car is a project of Google, which has been working in secret but in plain view on vehicles that can drive themselves, using artificial-intelligence software that can sense anything near the car and mimic the decisions made by a human driver."
Re:More info on the AI behind this (Score:4, Funny)
It's pretty amazing how they've stretched the limits of technology!
Re:awful, awful awful awful (Score:1, Funny)
Well, if it had to make a choice, I would program it to hit the softest target and to avoid pissing off the animal rights groups. That would leave the pedestrian.
Re:awful, awful awful awful (Score:2, Funny)
How will the computer know what kind of surface I am on [...] so it can break accordingly.
Ah, a WinCE-based system, I see.
Re:But it's Google... (Score:5, Funny)
Taxi: Welcome to the free automatic Google Taxi. Where do you want to go? ...
Passenger: To the train station.
Taxi: OK. By the way, there's a Starbucks on the way. They currently have a special offer, two coffees for the price of one. Maybe you want to go to there first?
Passenger: No, I just want to go to the train station.
Taxi: If you are interested in train stations, maybe the railway museum would interest you. It's only five minutes from here.
Passenger: I'm not interested in the train station, I just want to get my train.
Taxi: Maybe you are interested in Morton's model railway shop? They have great models, and I can get you there in only ten minutes.
Passenger: I don't want a model train, I want to use the real train!
Taxi: Did you know that just this week, the Railway Academy opened? In the first year they give discount for their locomotive driver courses. I can send you the application form to your phone.
Passenger: I don't want to drive the train, I just want to take the train. And if you don't drive me there soon, I'll miss it.
Taxi: Did you know that you can buy train tickets with 5% discount at train-ticket.com?
Passenger: I already have the train ticket. I just want to get to the fucking train.
Taxi: Oh, you are interested in fucking? There's a whorehouse not far from here
Re:2nd order effects (Score:2, Funny)
It's not the Google cars that worry me, it's the Bing car following them that worries me.