Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Self-driving Taxi

A team of professors at Freie Universitat Berlin have been in the process of developing autonomous cars.  This self-driving taxi drives without a person in the car behind the wheel.  It has 3 cameras, a velodyne laser scanner, GPS, odometer, radars and lux laser scanners attached to the car.  It also has a variety of embedded processors.  The car was made in Germany.  It has a companion iPad app from Appirion.  You just start the program, type in the coordinates and wait for the car to extract itself from a parking lot. Its very cool. Watch the video to see it in action.       Video

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