and am sure we've all seen the car on Top Gear as well which reverses and parallel parks itself!

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Gitonga Eric <gitonga@egmgem.com> wrote:
Peter,

Check out http://bit.ly/B2qm5. DARPA has a challenge every year for
driverless cars that I'm sure falls right in the category of what it
is that interests you.

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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Jared Koyier <jaredkoyier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> @Karunyu,I'd be suprised if that's what Omondi does. Nice thinkin
>> though,however me thinks thats overstretching technology. Wat happens
>> after reversing? Probably you switch to front cameras n drive the car
>> off while standing outside!
>
> @Jared, LOL! Its been a dream since I saw that James Bond movie where he was
> driving this BMW with a nokia phone, recently re-ignited when I saw this top
> gear episode where richard and james and some kid were racing real life
> remote controlled cars. They were using these huge remotes, kinda like the
> ones used for model planes.
>
> Then there was this other movie, i forget the name, where this mercedes had
> cameras on the rear bumpers with the feed displayed on the dashboard. And
> yet in another top gear episode, jeremy was drooling over this mercedes
> which had infra red cameras on the headlights which made visibility at night
> much much better.
>
> And dont you think it would be "interesting" to have cars with real time
> radar, collision detection, ejector seats, auto pilot...
>
> And anyway, if the USAF can do it with the drones, wouldn't a car be a piece
> of cake?
>