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Australian robotics researcher says smartphone-driven car is a year away | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | Herald S

Dr Jun Jo has great vision, so if any one can make it work, he can.

7:48 AM Jul 30 2012

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I want this but why can't I trust Android or Microsoft to design an OS safe enough not to crash?

10:14 AM Jul 30 2012

I like the approach of leveraging existent automotive safety technology and using the smartphone to be a meta controller - Siri/gps style telling your car what to do and letting the car take care of the car stuff. But perhaps Windows 8 is a better option!

10:18 AM Jul 30 2012

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That's a good point, Ms. Launchpad -- if the car has robust safety routines then your iPhone could just be in charge of telling the car which route to take based on the address the user entered into a GPS app. The phone's other main responsibility would be interfacing with the audio system to play music while the car takes you to your destination :)

12:06 PM Jul 30 2012

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Truth. I believe Dr Jun Jo has more complex vision system integrations up his sleeve but the music integration is essential.

12:09 PM Jul 30 2012

The good news is, there have been no crashes in all of the Google self-driving car tests.

So that's promising.

5:06 PM Jul 30 2012

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