For those not in the know, there's this thing held every so often called the DARPA challenge where people modify cars to drive themselves across the land, instead of having people doing the, er, footwork. Anyway, San Diego based group Axion Racing was tired from making the cars drive themselves -- it was too easy, they said. So they decided to take a PS3 running Linux, slap it into the car, and have it process a series of camera information to assist in keeping the car on the road.
Yet
another insane use for the PS3 and the Cell processor, if you ask us. This must be the only console to have such limitless applications, but this one borders on ridiculous. We're not saying it's a bad idea or it's sort of silly, but it has that "if we can do it, let's" vibe. It's an unnecessary way to do things, but Axion Racing is going to prove that the PS3 can, in fact, drive you to work if you let it.
[Thanks, Jason!]
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8-04-2007 @ 11:47AM
Steve said...
Are you serious? I would like to see a 360 do that.
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8-04-2007 @ 11:51AM
PSN: ummfada said...
Slow weekend coming... I'll be at Joystiq, but I do love being here at 'fanboy
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8-04-2007 @ 11:52AM
naruto007 said...
lmao the ps3 can be your wife too? XD
great idea about the cell if it really works they might mass product the idea
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8-04-2007 @ 11:56AM
Edge said...
Cogratulations Sony. You duped the masses into thinking that the PS3 is "more than a videogame console".
I'm with PS3fb on this one. It borders on Rube Goldburg Machine if you ask me.
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8-04-2007 @ 12:17PM
Galley said...
Wow, check out the eye candy!
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8-04-2007 @ 12:27PM
ryano said...
heh, "if you were on a desert island what console would you bring?" "pfft, PS3 so i can make a damn boat! FTW"
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8-04-2007 @ 12:42PM
WebMaster said...
@ Edge
No Kidding. wow. Dejevu, first Saddam was using the "power of the PS2" to run his air defence network, and 3rd world countries were going to use it to create nuclear weapons due to that cutting edge processing power, of the PS2. And now this for the PS3.
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8-04-2007 @ 2:24PM
money_mike_preme said...
im going to make my ps3 fly me to the moon and back (x-box 360 and its RRoD would get ya killed)
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8-04-2007 @ 11:25PM
MYPS3KilledMy360 said...
Wow i want to get my hand on the linux they have! fuck the car i want a high powered computer/console and wait for somebody to get a patch so i can ru n crysis on the linux OS. the linux they have now doesnt allow you to use both the gpu and cpu and its yet to really get a hold of the cells power because of sonys block in the software. PLEASE SONY LET ME DO AS I PLEASE!!! GIVE ME-LINUX DELUX XJ200 XX turbo UBERMAX JR26 CRISS CROSS MAKES YOU JUMP 2008 XP GTR HOME EDITION
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8-05-2007 @ 1:18AM
secret said...
Galley's just checking out the hot babes...lol
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8-05-2007 @ 3:14AM
Val said...
Lol. It's not an insane or silly idea. It's an insane or silly idea using the cell processor to play games :p which currently doesn't even touch the capabilities of that processor - for the following reason - programming time and expertise ( = money). For the price of the ps3 and the type of processor it has - if someone can actually use it - i would say that's great.
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8-05-2007 @ 3:16AM
Mutsch said...
Hot babes? Those two ladies on the left and right are the geeks. The folks in the middle are just eye candy.
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8-05-2007 @ 4:57AM
SystemError51 said...
Driver: Mac OS X.
http://team.gobanzai.com/tech/
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8-05-2007 @ 5:59AM
gojeda said...
Driver: Microsoft XP, .NET, and C#
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/12/DARPAChallenge/
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8-06-2007 @ 2:52AM
Ryan said...
Dude I am legally blind, so I can not drive. So the idea of cars driving themselves is a life long dream, but the idea of my PS3 driving me is just the iceing in the cake.
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