Re: [BlindHandyMan] CMU gets ready for the Nnext DARPA Grand Challenge

2007-04-06 Thread M. Terblanche
Great progress. Maybe they can send a team over to South Africa to see if they can cope with our famous taxis... Matthys Tom Fowle wrote: > > Dan, > some real progress here, interesting. > have you instructed them to detect blind folks, and when found, > to stop immediately, beep the horn and ra

Re: [BlindHandyMan] CMU gets ready for the Nnext DARPA Grand Challenge

2007-04-05 Thread Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press
NO, they need to stop, open their doors and invite us in, grin. Betsy At 10:58 AM 4/5/2007, you wrote: >Dan, >some real progress here, interesting. >have you instructed them to detect blind folks, and when found, >to stop immediately, beep the horn and race the engine >so as to be sure the bat kno

Re: [BlindHandyMan] CMU gets ready for the Nnext DARPA Grand Challenge

2007-04-05 Thread Tom Fowle
Dan, some real progress here, interesting. have you instructed them to detect blind folks, and when found, to stop immediately, beep the horn and race the engine so as to be sure the bat knows the car is there? thanks Tom To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman

[BlindHandyMan] CMU gets ready for the Nnext DARPA Grand Challenge

2007-04-05 Thread Dan Rossi
Tartan Racing's Self-Driving Vehicle Tackles Streets and Parking Lots Carnegie Mellon Team Preparing for 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge Boss, the self-driving SUV of Carnegie Mellon University's Tartan Racing team, can already negotiate some city streets and intersections. And after two months of tes