Comments on: Audi builds driver-less car for Pikes Peak

By: gak67

gak67 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:49:44 +0000

The Wireless internet provider we use at work is call Skylab.

By: DGR-F1

DGR-F1 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:29:55 +0000

Is Audi also involved with developing driverless vehicles for the US Military? I know there are a few manufacturers investigating such things.
Also, is this a true driverless car, or is there somebody using a PSP sitting comfortably in Houston?

By: ajokay

ajokay — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:28:22 +0000

Who would the Driver’s Championship points be awarded to? Thats what I want to know.

By: keepF1technical

keepF1technical — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:42:05 +0000

didn’t Williams send a driverless F1 car round silverstone back in the 90′s and get within a few seconds of a driven car.

those were the days of active suspension and lap positioning so the car would know what settings to use coming up. And that was something like 15 years ago!

By: Achilles

Achilles — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:53:07 +0000

There are already programs, built into ECU’s, that ‘Learn’ the track, in motorsport, an example would be Valentino Rossi’s Yamaha.

By: wasiF1

wasiF1 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:59:57 +0000

“How well would such technology work in an F1 car up against the likes of Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton?”

It will never work I don’t think human being will watch F1 when it is driven by robots,only machines will watch them.

By: Chalky

Chalky — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:34:50 +0000

I liked the fact that KITT could never have a crash. I think it was mentioned in the pilot episode. So effectively Michael could drive KITT like a lunatic and KITT would detect traffic ahead and take control if required.

I feel really geeky now.

By: inc0mmunicado

inc0mmunicado — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:46:18 +0000

This brings me back to when I used to watch Knight Rider when I was very young…I dream of one day having three things in my own car of tomorrow:
1. a car that could drive itself.
2. a car that could have a real conversation with you.
3. a “turbo boost” button that would allow you to jump over things…:)

By: Paul H

Paul H — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:43:02 +0000

Very different from a friend’s home made Cadillac-powered 4WD open wheel racer he used to race up Pikes Peak in the early ’60s. Then another local chap turned up to have a crack at it in several classes—flown back to the start line in helicopter–who won it no less than 19 times; that was ,of course, Bobby Unser.

By: John H

John H — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:06:52 +0000

Sorry, “throw it up pikes peak” not “through it up pikes peak”…. that doesn’t sound too healthy!