Jasedit's Downhill Jaunt

kherge:

Stanford’s Pikes Peak-Climbing Audi TT-S Stanford University has a long tradition of building autonomously navigated cars, like this Audi TT-S designed to race the famous Pikes Peak Hill…

I’ve been really excited waiting for this announcement. I worked with one of the important folks on this on two of the DARPA Challenges, and knew he had headed off to Google to work on this project. I didn’t know any details though, so it’s nice to finally see the results. I’d *love* to know the tech details, since three of the names on this are big names from the Challenges (Sebastian Thrun was head of Stanford’s team, Chris Urmson was head of CMU’s team, and Anthony Levandowski did the autonomous motorcycle in the Grand Challenges.)