DARPA Urban Challenge 2007

THAT IS SO AWESOME! Its mind-boggling to think that nobody is driving those cars... congratulations teams!

yes, i just read an article about monkeys controling robotic arms with their minds, and scintests sending them simple messages through electrodes in their brains.. its amazing

yeah... the music sux. But i love the cars and the topics around AI

i dont get you :s im saying yeah the music sucked

i don't get ya

lol no way it was horrible

yes kidding

no kidding

rofl

Well, the Darpa Grand Challenge was much more physically demanding on the vehicles themselves, but as far as the robotics aspect of it, the Urban challenge required much more advanced programming, because they had to deal with traffic, merging, obeying driving laws, etc.

The MIT car does seem to emulate the typical Boston driver....

Wow, this looks better than expected. So obviously the off-road-challenge of the last years was the bigger challenge, hm!?

Some might, but that is pretty unlikely. Most use video combined with lasers rangefinders. GPS is used for location information, video and lasers for localized obstacle detection. The sirens are there to warn humans that the vehicle is... "unpredictable"

the music sux

do the cars use sound as well as lasers to navigate?

heey where i can buy one of this usb? in mexico???

Ya... the MIT car, did they finalize everything that they wanted too. It doesn't seem to work properly.. I would not be able to keep a straight face seeing that thing drive down the street.

It's like watching children learn to crawl.

This is definitely the start of something great.

thanks for the upload.

The song is "Peace Music (St. Etienne Remix)" by Pizzicato Five, off their "Sound of Music" album.

Thank you. All six finishers had very unique driving styles, didn't they? I can't wait to see what changes they program into the MIT vehicle for next time.

Very Cool!

What is the music name?

Excellent footage. I was there...husband was one of the course officials. This really shows how "jerky" the movements were for MIT. Really wonderful that 6 of the 11 finished.