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Old 17-06-2009, 08:32 AM   #1
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At JavaOne in San Francisco, Calif., Volkswagen's Marcial Hernandez and Sun's Greg Bollella detail Project Bixby, an Audi TTS programmed by Volkswagen and using a Java runtime environment. The vehicle will then be raced on a Rally course against other automated vehicles.
http://news.zdnet.com/2422-19178_22-...ml?tag=nl.e539

Would certainly make my trip to buy 3 fried chickens and a coke a lot easier if I could just sit in the lounge suite and send the car down to pick them up. :togo:

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Old 17-06-2009, 08:53 AM   #2
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http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/robotcars.html

^^^ more info on robot cars here. Sif use Java though when there's BASIC :P
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Old 17-06-2009, 08:55 AM   #3
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wow thats super cool!!!

put me down for a zinger and a large chips
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Old 17-06-2009, 08:58 AM   #4
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That’s totally awesome!!!!

Would love to see how the test went.
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Old 17-06-2009, 09:00 AM   #5
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Would certainly make my trip to buy 3 fried chickens and a coke a lot easier if I could just sit in the lounge suite and send the car down to pick them up. :togo:
If it works as well as the Java apps on this computer, I'll make my own two slices of dry white toast...
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