Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/26/marvel-at-this-autonomous-dri.html
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Yes, but what happens when it hits 88 mph?
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Needs a better soundtrack. (though I guess the licensing would be a problem)
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looks like a fun ride for an amusement park
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and they didn’t add it to Toyota AE86? what a crime…
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Expensive though. You would be replacing the tires several times a day.
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I’m guessing that the other big application for this would be 45-minute car-chase scenes in Hollywood movies. Or have those already been replaced with CGI?
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basically all movie cars are this:
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When a self driving car and a heisting robot team up you get, fast and the furious 1010: autonomous drift
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It runs straight into a barn?
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Could be… maybe clipping a pine in the process?
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On actual tanks that’s called a pivot steer.
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Pivot steer doesn’t sell trucks, TANK TURN…might?
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Smoking tires evokes the same response in me as rolling coal.
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That’s amazing! I’d love to see all the variables being accounted for in the math.
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Glad to see they got the line. I’m sure everyone’s going to be quoting it at them forever, after all.
“The way we see it, if you’re going to build a research vehicle, why not do it with some style?” Gerdes likes to say, nodding to the classic line from Back to the Future .
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That sound you hear? A thousand Hollywood stunt drivers crying out in despair. Now you’ll be able to sit the hero in the driving seat (gripping a fake steering wheel of course) and film naturalistically
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Next they will put a flux capacitor in a black Pontiac Trans Am with tan seats?
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Do androids dream of spinning donuts?
Can’t decide if we should put some sort of desire for fun into our AI.
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