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Parallel Parking At Its Finest...
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| Ian |
| you should see how they park around here for the school which is behind our houses. they're bloody nutcases, i can't wait until my pup is old enough to go pee up their cars ;) |
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| Aristronica |
| yeah that lexus is sweet my neighbor just got and LS for x-mas and he was showing it off the next day with the self-park. i must say that does work but it's still just an overpriced toyota... and yes i'm jealous as hell. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
I find self-parking and stuff like that really interesting, so this intrigues me:
DARPA Grand Challenge
It's a contest held to see who can build the self-driving car that passes the most tests of driving judgment. Some info about the 2007 contest:
"For 2007, DARPA introduced a new challenge, which it named the "Urban Challenge". The Urban Challenge, will take place on November 3, 2007. The location of the event will not be announced until the qualification process is complete. The course will involve a 60-mile (96 km) urban area course, to be completed in less than 6 hours. Rules will include obeying all traffic regulations while negotiating with other traffic and obstacles and merging into traffic. DARPA also announced that it will allow teams to submit proposals for up to US$1 Million in development funds. While the 2004 and 2005 events were more physically challenging for the vehicles, the robots operated in isolation and did not encounter other vehicles on the course. The Urban Challenge requires designers to build vehicles able to obey all traffic laws while they detect and avoid other robots on the course. This is a particular challenge for vehicle software, as vehicles must make “intelligent” decisions in real time based on the actions of other vehicles." |
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| idoru |
| Parallel parking is easy. |
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| emc^2 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aristronica
yeah that lexus is sweet my neighbor just got and LS for x-mas and he was showing it off the next day with the self-park. i must say that does work but it's still just an overpriced toyota... and yes i'm jealous as hell. |
Yeah, I was gonna start a thread about it - talk about answering a question no one asked. I guess I was wrong. IMHO, if one is a tool who cannot parallel park a car, you should not be driving. Isn't it one of the requirements of the driver's license exam?
Personally, I think it is an arrogant and retared invention. Tho, a flip side of that coin is this: if one of those aforementioned tw@ts who cannot parallel park wants to park near my car - either get the LS or park elsewhere! |
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| Boomer187 |
| women drivers..phhfftt. |
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| mezzir |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
Parallel parking is easy. |
+1
lol and the lexus wouldn't have helped the woman in the original thread you need like 3 feet in front and behind your car of extra space to park somewhere iirc |
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