Google's Driverless Car

The project has evolved so much since the last time I checked (when it was still a DARPA challenge project).

Personally, I like this project very much. Maybe there will be people saying this project is a useless project, with the argument like, "if you are lazy, can just call a cab, take a bus...". But if you think of it carefully, Human makes mistakes, and road accidents are very costly mistakes. It cost not only your own life, and others' too!

And most accidents caused by long distance trips. Even if you are a cautious driver, if others are not careful enough, it will still affects you.

And its fantastic that Chris Urmson and his team made this autonomous system a "very considerate" AI. It slows down and make way for other drivers! Watch the video! ;)

One more note: I'm not a huge fan of driving. To me, driving is just to get from point A to point B. So, yeap, I'm a huge fan of Google's Driverless Car project :p



More Readings:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/how-google-self-driving-car-works
Google engineers explain the technology behind their autonomous vehicle and show videos of the road tests

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=14119138