Says VW Buzz:
"The initial focus for VAIL will be vehicle safety, mobility and environmental performance," said Plummer. "Already signed up for space in the facility are the research groups of computer science and electrical engineering Professor Sebastian Thrun, leader of the Stanford Racing Team that fielded Junior and Stanley; mechanical engineering Associate Professor Chris Gerdes, whose research group is studying cleaner combustion and advanced vehicle dynamics control; and communication department Professor Clifford Nass, whose research studies the psychology of making cars safer and more enjoyable."
Volkswagon going to be in the poles peak climb? Yes, says Steve Darden at the Seeker Blog
"Volkswagen is very serious about driverless vehicle technology. The TT-S in the photo above is being prepared to enter the Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb in August (yes, I said driverless!). Here is a fun VW video made to publicize the venture with Stanford."
One of the research algorithms from MIT:
"The system handles roads with complex geometries and makes no assumptions about the position and orientation of the vehicle with respect to the roadway. Early versions of these algorithms successfully guided a fully autonomous Land Rover LR3 through the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, a 90 km urban race course, at speeds up to 40 km/h amidst moving traffic."
A software tool kit to define autonomous vehicle communication protocols.
This research defines the traffic rules so computers can obey them:
"In this paper we present a dynamic task analysis and use it to develop a computational model of driving in traffic. This model has been implemented in a driving program called Ulysses as part of our research program in robot vehicle development. Ulysses encodes legal, safe and practical driving rules as constraints on acceleration and lane selection. "
More later.
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