PA State Rep Takes Ride in Self-Driven Car, Skynet Now Self-Aware

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09/05/2013 at 11:06 • Filed to: news

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Skynet™ became fully aware after U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, got into a self-driven car in Cranberry, Pa., Butler County, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. The Cadillac SRX that was modified by Carnegie Mellon University went along local roads and highways operated by a computer that uses inputs from radars, laser rangefinders, and infrared cameras as it made a 33-mile trip to the Pittsburgh International Airport. A Carnegie Mellon engineer was in the driver's seat as a safety precaution.


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DISCUSSION (4)


Kinja'd!!! Ex. President Mack41 > PRBot II
09/05/2013 at 11:11

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A seated politician with no control of where they go, fixed down a rigid unchanging path, lead blindly by those that "know better".

CAN YOU SAY COMMENTARY ON THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM OR WHAT?!?!?!?!


Kinja'd!!! PRBot II > Ex. President Mack41
09/05/2013 at 11:13

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Heartclick, followed, recommended, etc.


Kinja'd!!! PelicanHazard > PRBot II
09/05/2013 at 11:13

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CMU's robots are awesome. I got to see the fleet of them about two years after Boss won the DARPA Urban Challenge, and even sit in the tiny cockpit of a prototype for Sandstorm, the H1 that got second place in the Grand Challenge two years before that.


Kinja'd!!! RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ex. President Mack41
09/05/2013 at 12:04

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Supreme automotive power derives from a mandate of the driver, not some farcical automatic ceremony.

What I mean to say is, if I were to go around saying I were safer because some fluttery box threw my brakes for me, they'd put me away!