Posted 09.17.2010 at 5:59 pm 4 Comments

A helicopter commissioned by Audi to film its autonomous Audi TT climbing Pikes Peak crashed early this morning. Four people on board were hurt, the pilot seriously.

It's a surreal story--a manned vehicle crashes while the one climbing a mountain driven only by computers and sensors carries on.

For more on the autonomous Audi, a project undertaken with the help of Stanford University check out our past coverage here.

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pottzy87
09/17/10 at 6:53 pm

a manned vehicle crashes while the one climbing a mountain driven only by computers and sensors carries on.. Go figure

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futurewiz14526
09/18/10 at 1:22 pm

they should make the helicopter pilotless too.....

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d0gw1n
09/19/10 at 2:23 am

Never send a man to do what an automaton can.

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TZ
09/20/10 at 7:46 am

Of course, it's not like an helicopter is harder to pilot than a car.

And that a problem while in the air isn't more critical than on earth...



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