Supersensitive Cars

It wasn’t Skynet, but at the Smart Car Race India 2010, vehicles didn’t need drivers.

It wasn’t Skynet, but at the Smart Car Race India 2010, vehicles didn’t need drivers. Engineering students assembled in Bangalore to show off the control algorithm of their smart miniature cars at a race conducted by Freescale Semiconductor. Ankur Jain, a student from Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology, Delhi, says they had to write code for the cars to sense and move on a black-coloured path. The typical car has eight sensors and four LEDs to sense its path, runs on a nickel cadmium battery and travels at a speed of 85 seconds per cm. “I didn’t sleep for five days as I was trying to fine-tune the car,” says S Krishnakumar, a student from Thiagaraja College of Engineering, Madurai.

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