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Robots driving in traffic

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I interview Dr Will Uther about his robots that drive cars in traffic. His team from the National ICT Australia, the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney, the University of Technology, Sydney, and the University of California, Berkeley are competing in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

This is a competition run by the American military for cars driving themselves in traffic.

About the author: Ian Woolf lives in Sydney, has a degree in Applied Science, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, research assistant, Cisco CCNA tutor, Physics laboratory demonstrator, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to freelance writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Diffusion radio science show on radio 2SER 107.3FM Monday at 6:30pm in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Diffusion podcasts. You should follow me on twitter, here