What about radar?
http://www.mcewantechnologies.com/

Regards

Chris A

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Rigby-Jones" <mrjones@NORTELNETWORKS.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, 07 February, 2002 16:54 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: controller


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claudio Tagliola [SMTP:cptagliola@CHELLO.NL]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 2:26 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [PIC]: controller
>
> Hi,
>
> Are you aware that the people of Daimler-Benz are trying this for
over
> then 10 years now, with a humongous research budget. I don't know
the
> current state, but a few years ago they had a trunk full of SGI
silicon,
> worth more then the average Benz. Not the kind of equipment to trash
at
> the end of a drive.
>
> May I ask what this project is for? I have a wild imagination, but
can't
> put your last remark about the vehicles being trashed...
>
> BTW if you succees to get your car to drive autonomously with a
speed of
> 110 Kph, give the guys of Benz a ring. I think they have a job
opening.
> :)
>
> Regards,
> Claudio
>
I strongly suspect Benz have been trying to acheive this using the
existing
road infrastructure, i.e. getting the computer to recognise road
signs, the
edges and middle of the road, other cars, pedestrains etc.  This is a
massive task, although I have seen a program that showed a car in the
US
that had completed several thousand miles of testing and all the
software
ran on a fairly powerfull desktop PC.

Tony at least shouldn't have to worry about other cars and people,
stop
signs, traffic lights etc..etc..

Mike

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