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2009-10-21 , 20:31
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#11
Originally Posted by DaveP1 View Post
No matter how good you are, a computer driven car could beat you in whatever video racing game you choose.
...and that's where the advantage currently ends.
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...and that's where the advantage currently ends.
Currently, yes. Computer programs can't yet figure out how to get to somewhere, just how best to drive once a person tells them where they are going. DARPA's Urban Challenge shows that self driving cars are not here yet:

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

OTOH, I would guess that the computer controlled BMW demonstrated on Top Gear drove the course faster than most of us could:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x48...30i_shortfilms
 
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Cool, a picture:

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That looks more like a flight yoke than a joystick.
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Not what I envisioned at all. Thanks for the photo.
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Originally Posted by DaveP1 View Post
Computer programs can't yet figure out how to get to somewhere
i don't think that's the problem... my navi-computer tells ME how to get somewhere

here's your main problem and main field of research for "autonomous vehicles".
 
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Will we ever get to where computers can avoid potholes, and change the destination on the fly when one gas station has better advertised prices than another?
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Yes, but then we'll need to make sure that their positronic brains are imprinted with some rules.
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Yes, but then we'll need to make sure that their positronic brains are imprinted with some rules.
Fourth rule - cut off SUVs whenever possible.
 
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