My daughter told me she had a dream about cars that drive themselves, and I told her I dream about the same thing. I found her this old video about the autonomous vehicle that I helped build at the University of Utah for the DARPA Urban Challenge, and thought it might be fun to show it here.
Back when The Transistor was going, I wanted to make a 4th of July float for the big parade here in Provo, and I’m thinking that ProVolt should look into trying to build a little autonomous float for the parade this year.
Should we do it?
Depends on your definition of “little.”
Maybe a big autonomous float?
I loved the PBS coverage of the first successful DARPA auto challenge. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa/program.html
Where is this test course from the recording?
It’s at a driving range behind the DMV in West Valley. I believe that a couple of other teams from Utah were able to test out their vehicles there.
Here’s a link to the place on a map:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.669859,-111.9595061,580m/data=!3m1!1e3