A Full-Size Remote-Control Car 125
Ant writes "A video clip (Windows Media Player required) the construction, operation, and demolition. It is a real-life remote control car with Knight Rider references!" The video works fine for me in xine (though sound dropped out for a bit). This car is not yet ready for the Las Vegas run, but if they hook up with some AI reseachers ...
Look! No hands! (Score:5, Funny)
You've been coding too much (Score:2)
Re:You've been coding too much (Score:1)
Re:Look! No hands! (Score:1)
There is an attachment for a breastpump that allows hands-free pumping (for nursing, you dolt, not for breast enlargement) and the same pump comes with a cigarette lighter adapter. There were quite a few jokes in class about pumping, driving, and talking on your cell phone at the same time. So now I guess that you can pump, talk on the cell phone, AND code all at the same time...
It's been done (Score:5, Funny)
The site appears to have been screwed up. Anyone else getting a strange redirect [207.44.204.48]?
Re:It's been done (Score:3, Informative)
Re:It's been done (Score:2)
The BMW was driven by a stunt-man hidden in the backseat. Well, not the ordinary backseat, of course, but a custom built one, featuring video-screens, which replaced the ordinary vision, and of course, the steering-wheel, pedals and gear shift.
Re:It's been done (Score:1)
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Knight Rider (Score:5, Funny)
As long as those references include Bonnie and April but leave out Michael and Devon, then they'll be OK.
Re:Knight Rider (Score:2, Funny)
CMU Already Did This... (Score:5, Interesting)
Well, CMU [cmu.edu] already did this long ago. They use Neural-Nets and they can cruise the highway at 70 mph. The test run is completely automated. Of course there's someone at the driver seat in case that there's something wrong. Interestingly, although the AI system successfully cruising the road, the detection sometimes mistaken a white tree bark for the road divider....
Re:CMU Already Did This... (Score:4, Funny)
Pussies.
Re:CMU Already Did This... (Score:1)
Hmmm (Score:1)
Free Delivery (Score:5, Funny)
One of the funniest thing I have ever seen !!! (Score:2, Interesting)
Wow! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wow! (Score:1)
because it is possible to use such cars for terrorist attacks...
or maybe he tells us there are wmd in this cars....
that we cant see them doesn't mean they arn't there
Re:Wow! (Score:2)
Re:Wow! (Score:1)
well ok she doesn't but I'm partially related to her,.... and she's the only famous Lansbury I know of
scrapheap challenge (Score:4, Informative)
Re:scrapheap challenge (Score:1)
Uhh.. isn't that the point of Junkyard Wars?
Hey (Score:3, Funny)
Car Bomb (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Car Bomb (Score:1)
Let's pass a law!!!!
Re:Car Bomb (Score:1)
Mirror (Score:4, Informative)
"Windows Media Player required" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Windows Media Player required" (Score:2, Funny)
Cars UI (Score:5, Interesting)
The hand-held steering wheel, foot controled accelorator / brake combination has clearly worked very sucessfully up to this day. Would a hand-held remote control for all three potentially make things easier for learners who have grown up with electronic equipment? People with disabilities?
In the (admitedly unlikely) situation of a driver having a heart attack / stroke while driving, a passenger could take over simply by grabbing the remote and stop the car safely. Just thinking aloud.
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Re:Cars UI (Score:1)
Re:Cars UI (Score:2)
In mothern cars there is always backup for the current electronics. Should your servo fail, you'll still be able to stear, same goes for the break servo. If the transmition blows your car comes to a (slightly dramatic) h
Re:Cars UI (Score:2, Informative)
Call me strange, but I think it doesn't take terrribly long to pull a 747 into a tail spin. Once there, I'm pretty sure it's hard to pull it out of it, there's no manual fix, and there's slim odds of escape. That said, I've absolutely never heard of a plane going into a tail spin due to its electr
Re:actually.. (Score:2)
Modern car computers fail, not often, but it happens. The point is, these systems are redundant. The break, gas and stearing is always mechanically linked to the actual controls only aided by the electronic (think about how ABS, servos, EPS etc. works.) This makes these systems redundant. You can't however connect a joystick mechanically the stearing causing undefined beha
Re:Cars UI (Score:1)
Yeah. Cool.
Fill it with a brew involving fertilizer, and you've got a land-based cruise missile, ready for deployment, indistinguishable (well, maybe except for the smell) from lots of other cars.
Nice toy. I can imagine uses for something like that, in the wrong hands.
Re:Cars UI (Score:3, Interesting)
Sig: In the old days, it took thousands of years to create the sahara desert. Now we can do it in decades! That's progress;)
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It looks like in capitalist Japan Cars really do drive you!!!!
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Coolest. Geeks. EVER. (Score:2)
How far behind are the U.S again?? (Score:5, Informative)
"media player required"? and mirror (Score:5, Informative)
And by the way the mirror is at the DMP [man.ac.uk]
Please add your own [man.ac.uk], my computer cant take too much.
But Really cant wait (Score:4, Funny)
Or just playing games with the cops.
Daddy, Daddy, I want one. Why CAN'T I HAVE ONE? (Score:4, Funny)
There is the valid point that by giving your kit an RC car of this size, you'd never have to give him another christmas gift for the rest of his life. It would also be an effective deterrent to potential playground bullies, knowing that your kid has the ability to run them down and get away clean.
--CTH
Re:Daddy, Daddy, I want one. Why CAN'T I HAVE ONE? (Score:5, Funny)
What you're missing is that the playground bullies will have upgraded to remote controlled SUVs ;^)
Re:Daddy, Daddy, I want one. Why CAN'T I HAVE ONE? (Score:2)
Re:Daddy, Daddy, I want one. Why CAN'T I HAVE ONE? (Score:1)
A full-size remote-control car,1980s Toyota Camary (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:A full-size remote-control car,1980s Toyota Cam (Score:1)
Re:A full-size remote-control car,1980s Toyota Cam (Score:1)
Re:A full-size remote-control car,1980s Toyota Cam (Score:1)
Knight Rider References? (Score:3, Funny)
Can't wait to say 'Kitt, take us home'
Fullsize RC Car (Score:5, Insightful)
I liked this up until they started beating the shit out of the car. They literally did all that work to trash the damn thing. They made it do jumps, tried to ski it on two wheels (which eventually made it flip over), rammed it with their trucks, and completely destroyed it. I don't get it. They made this really badass full-size remote controlled car, then they killed it.
Oh, and posting an article with a direct link to a video file? Dammit, that's pretty lame and inconsiderate. You could have linked to a page with some detail [jdfab.com] that wasn't a direct goddamned link to the video file. Sheesh.
Re:Fullsize RC Car (Score:1)
You Never Owned an RC Car, Did You? (Score:2)
You never owned an RC car as a child, did you? Jumping it, skidding, flipping, and generally crashing it is exactly what I (and everyone e
Re:You Never Owned an RC Car, Did You? (Score:2)
The thing is, a Turbo hopper is a hell of a lot more resistant to abuse than a full-size car. The Turbo Hopper (and most RC cars) are DESIGNED to do all of those things. A Toyota Camry, however, is not.
Re:You Never Owned an RC Car, Did You? (Score:2)
Re:Fullsize RC Car (Score:2)
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It wasn't hard, really. The site is very simplistic.
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Phillip K. Dick's Horch (Score:1)
Coming soon... (Score:5, Funny)
haha (Score:1)
A verb is an action word. (Score:4, Funny)
From the Slashdot story: "A video clip (Windows Media Player required) the construction, operation, and demolition."
A verb an action word. I know verbs minor details to a Slashdot editor, but they important to others of us.
KITT (Score:3, Funny)
Bucky balls (Score:2)
-psy
I have waited (Score:1)
Re:I have waited (Score:1)
Reminds me of Battlefield 1942 (Score:2)
So what did they have against that car anyway? Was their goal a remote controlled car or to destroy a Toyota without killing themselves?
Re:Reminds me of Battlefield 1942 (Score:2)
coo! (Score:1)
Poor Timming (Score:1)
See what happens when rednecks hang with nerds? (Score:2)
What a freakish coincidence. We bought a pair of Zip Zaps last night and raced them for 6 hours. But this video definitely tops anything we did.
And is it just me, or did those guys have a little too much faith in the RC system and the guy driving it? I've spazzed out enough just while controlling little RC cars (oops, left IS oriented this way, duh). I can't imagine standing 15 feet away from a full-size RC controlled car.
Remote? (Score:2)
It really is a cheap hack... (Score:3, Interesting)
First thing that I would do, if I were going to build one of these for real/permanent, is that I would change how the braking and throttle systems work. The way a modern car pulls input from the driver isn't very effective unless you're putting that level of pressure on pedals and steering, as evidenced by their rig that was applying force to pedals. Brakes, for one, could be operated off of a very small solenoid if you changed the brake power booster, which are designed to accomodate the right resistance to a human foot. Change that, and things become simpler. You can switch to a tiny activation system rather than something that looks like it was used to tilt a dump truck.
From their video, I couldn't tell how they had worked the steering, if it was actually analog or if it was cheapo-RC "full left", vs "full right" steering. Analog would definitely be the way to go, but if one uses a really small control, it would be easy to oversteer, causing loss of control. Probably why they picked dirt (even assuming that there was the possibility of using pavement that was far enough away that no one would care).
Re:It really is a cheap hack... (Score:2)
Brakes, for one, could be operated off of a very small solenoid if you changed the brake power booster
What is a "brake power booster"? You mean a brake servo? They still need a fair amount of force to operate, bear in mind that a brake pedal is a lever, and amplifies the force somewhat anyway.
If you mean some new fangled thing in a more modern car, fair enough, but this was a 15 year old car that they modified, not a new one. It would only have a servo, and it is feasible that it didn't, but there have b
Re:It really is a cheap hack... (Score:2)
Re:It really is a cheap hack... (Score:2)
It's called a servo over here in the UK.
It re-inforces the pressure created by the brake pedal, rather than creates it by itself. It's perfectly possible to drive a car that has no servo. It's also possible to drive one with a broken servo, though the brakes are spongy and may lock on in certain situations, and if you have a direct acting servo, or one which acts on hydraulic fluid.
You could use a direct acting one, by sealing it, and having a port on it to allow atmospheric pressure in. It wouldn't allow
100mbit mirror, anyone? (Score:2, Informative)
Yeah, but (Score:2)
That was our car! (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.jdfab.com/dp2/rccar.htm
The old one is down and a new smaller file has been uploaded, we have had over 50,000 hits in the last two days and about 300gb of transfer on the server... Crazy...
It sounds like some people aren't sure why we destroyed the car after spending time to build it. Well basically we wanted to build one for a couple of years, and the goal was to
Done Before (Score:1)
Turning It On (Score:1)
Why is this at all news? (Score:2)
I saw a show on Discovery(?) calle Myth Busters, they actually attemped urban ledgends to see what happened. In this case they did the JATO and the Impalla ledgend. They couldn't get a JATO, so they used some rockets that certian hobbiests use for high launches. They provided more thrust, but shorter duration than the JATO. So they used three fired in sequence.
Since no one actually wanted to drive the t
Not necessarily. (Score:2, Interesting)
BTW, why was parent post modded troll?
Re:Not necessarily. (Score:1)