Linux-Powered Auto-Parking Car 414
megmag writes "A really cool project using a Linux P4 machine for automatic parking of a Volvo S60 was presented last week. Take a look at the video. That's how your parking problem should be solved. It is a final-year student project within the mechanical engineering department at Linköping University, Sweden."
that space would almost fit two cars (Score:5, Insightful)
I was surprised to be able to download the vid at full speed, though.
Suspicious (Score:3, Insightful)
Interesting, but dangerous (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:This is cool (Score:5, Insightful)
Of course I also think that at least 80% of the people on the road are scarier than hell and shouldn't be allowed to drive. Don't believe me? Turn on your local news for the first snow storm of the season (if you don't get snow, find the Denver newscast - it's always humorus). I'm always amazed at the way people who live in an area that gets bad weather EVERY YEAR will wreck their car the first time there is three inches of snow. Maybe if we actually taught people how to drive there would be less traffic fatalities in this country - actually, probably not, Everybody knows that traffic accidents are caused by people not wearing their seat belt [strike-the-root.com].
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Re:Notice how much space is available to park the (Score:2, Insightful)
What about pedestrians? (Score:3, Insightful)
The hardest and most annoying part about parallel parking for me is constantly checking all of my blind spots to make sure that I'm not about to mangle a pedestrian/stick my car out into oncoming traffic.
How does the parking system handle that, I wonder.
Re:Future Car concepts (Score:3, Insightful)
Of course, at that point car insurance will cost more than your car, because the insurance companies sure as hell aren't going to trust the computers.
Re:What about pedestrians? (Score:3, Insightful)
It doesn't, that's why you control the accelerator.
Re:This is cool (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:This is cool (Score:2, Insightful)
Simply put, we get good at what we do, and we "do" gender differences all the time, therefore we get good at them
Re:This is cool (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:This is cool (Score:1, Insightful)
My fiancee and I go rock climbing together. The one who climbes second gets farther, having had a chance to learn from watching another.
Re:This is cool (Score:3, Insightful)
Anyway, they're approaching the problem in the wrong way. The way to reduce problems due to accidents is to reduce accidents to begin with, not to make people safer if they're involved in an accident. A "no fault" accident is caused by incompetence or bad choices, in general. Enforcing turn signal usage would be a good way to prevent a whole pile of accidents (and a good way to prevent "road rage") before they happen, as would making people actually prove that they can drive *well* rather than just proving that they can memorize some following distances to pass a written test.
There needs to be a friggin' autocross course located behind each and every DMV, IMHO, and if you can't get the provided car (or your own, possibly) though the course in the prescribed time without running over some cones, then you can't navigate the streets adequately and therefore can't have a license. *That* would reduce the number of accidents, and would probably save more money than it'd cost. It'd also get some politicians voted out of office by the old and/or incompetent, and therefore won't happen.
Not many people realize... (Score:1, Insightful)
How is this?
When accidents occur, it is not always clear who is at fault. What is clear, however, is the financial and legal obligations of the person who is blamed. A damaged car costs money. A dead passenger can cost all the money you have, and land you in jail.
So, when you don't wear your seat belt, you are making it more likely that you will die in a crash, and hence increasing the potential legal ramifications for every other driver on the road.
I don't care how careful a driver you are, you are still financially and legally imperiling other drivers when you don't wear your seat belt.
The same goes for motor cycle helmets.
Please, don't be an asshole.
Re:This is cool (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:This is cool (Score:3, Insightful)
I understand your sentiment: if someone can't even park their car, how can they drive?
But consider that parallel parking, in particular, might be a skill completely independent of actually driving. Here in Orange County you can have a complete and fulfilling driving life without EVER having to parallel park. There is some subset of those folks who are safe drivesr. Are you implying that they can't drive? Of course that's not the case.
I find this amazing. (Score:3, Insightful)