10.9mph & death of the iCar

Debutted the 100m with the lunchbox going 10.9mph with the human at 195 steps/minute. It was incredibly loud. The human could probably do 200m at that speed, with minor injuries. Took a turn & crashed into a curb, breaking the 3rd servo. Decided to put the servo saver back on, but use a screw intended for mounting the servo to mount the servo saver. It was too narrow, but anything is better than breaking the shaft.


Apple's announcement of abandoning its electric car project & canning everyone working on it brought up the subject of autonomous cars again. They're continuing a scaled back effort just in the software side. All searches for progress in Goog's autonomous car project cut off at 2013 when Sebastian Thrun left. Now the project is all but abandoned, but generation millenial remanes ever optimistic a self driving car is just around the corner, 11 years after the hype started.


Saw 1 autonomous car in real life. Uber had 1 going up & down SOMA during the Oracle & Salesforce trade shows. It had a $75,000 Velodyne HDL-64E spinning wildly. The internet doesn't do justice to how chaotic that thing looks when spinning. A stray soccer ball would destroy it. The remaneing sensors were the same as 11 years ago.