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 Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:16 pm Post subject: Stanford's Driverless Audi TTS To Tackle Pikes Peak |
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For a robotic car, there can hardly be a more perilous challenge than the Pikes Peak run, as even city traffic and concrete barriers don't pose the same risk as several-thousand-foot falls and sheer rock walls. Despite the fact that the Audi TTS housing the system--dubbed Shelley after famed female rally legend Michele Mouton--will be driverless, the team from Stanford must still be nervous about the attempt.
Shelley won't be taking it easy, you see--the plan is to hit the slopes as hard as possible, racing to the 14,000-foot-plus summit in the shortest time possible. This is a feat that only the most elite human race car drivers can accomplish with any degree of safety, so it's sure to be a serious challenge for a purely computer-controlled system.
Nevertheless, the computer appears to have a fair grip on the dynamics of sliding around in the dirt as the preview video below shows. The Pikes Peak challenge won't actually happen until 2010, but between now and then Stanford will be working hard to get the robot-driven Audi TTS up to speed.
The Shelley project is a continuation of the driverless car systems spawned by the likes of the DARPA.
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