Or more appropriately, “Apple’s Tiger Drives A Car.” In this year’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge, Team Banzai has developed a fully autonomous vehicle running on Mac OS X, version 10.4, more commonly known as “Tiger.” The logistics are actually spectacular, they used a VW Touareg controlled by PowerMac G5s that operate every aspect of the vehicle, from the gas and the brakes to the steering and the GPS navigation system. The event takes place this fall, but I’m already curious how their vehicle will perform in the qualifiers and hopefully the subsequent race.
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