Self-driving cars: getting out of hand here!

[JohnK]

And I thought that figuring out how to tune an engine with an ECU was a challenge.

 

http://phys.org/news/2012-08-shelley-stanford-robotic-racecar-track.html

[RGTorque]

maybe i should have sent my 7 to stanford while i had the miata engine.

[JohnK]

Spoke with a cardiac surgeon who was head of a cardiac unit at a local hospital in the area. He had a GT-40 kit/clone with an ordinary V8 in it. Told me that getting the timing (just a distributor and coil system) right when he had to get everything lined up properly (he had to understand the relationships of all the pieces and how they conversed) was the most complicated and frustrating thing he'd ever faced. This stuff takes some study and getting your head in the right place.

[BessieTheSeven]

Bah! Pfffft! Shelley is an Audi TT. What would that bitch know about a race circuit! Probably always down at the hairdressing salon with her Miata wannabee friends! :boxing:

 

Give me a good honest seven any day. Born of necessity, I learned to drive myself too you know! After all my lovely owner Al Navarro still has not worked out how to drive me!

[jimrankin]

Looks like the steering and brake inputs are too quick and jerkey on the Stanford car. Seems like sitting right in the middle of silicon valley they would have better access to both programming and super accurate step controlled electric motors. As for two and a half minutes around Thunder Hill, my MINI wouldn't dare show it's little black bra in the paddoc if it couldn't beat the s--t out of that. Good thing they had the track to themselves or all you would have seen out the windshield was blue and yellow stripe flags waving. LOL.

Actually, since anything involving a computer past programming my DVR is one step past my grade level I should probably quit hitting on the Stanford program, especially since I see worse car control by "live" drivers on the freeway every day.