[gui-talk] self navigating car

[Hoffman, Allen]

China Catches Up With Google's Driverless Car
<http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/08/11/2122216/China-Catches-Up-With-G
oogles-Driverless-Car>  229 

Posted by timothy <http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/>  on Thursday August
11, @06:30PM 
from the OK-but-it's-just-following-the-wall dept. 
mikejuk writes "While Google makes headlines with its driverless car and
even manages to lobby Nevada to legalize driverless cars on the public
road - China quietly pushes ahead on its own. A driverless car navigated
286km of expressway all on its own
<http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/2876-chin
a-and-the-rise-of-the-driverless-car.html> . Using nothing but a pair of
video cameras and laser rangefinders, i.e. no GPS, it managed to arrive
safely even through fog. The computer vision based approach means that
at the moment it can only drive during daylight hours. Google might need
to speed up ..."
 
I am happy to see competition moving ahead on this front.
 
 
Allen Hoffman