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What would be better? GPS is inaccurate and probably has issues with the speed they are going, they'd have to some estimate of actual position based on average

• avh02 9y ago
  I get that, but even mid-2000s consumer cars have position sensors on the steering wheel and very accurate rotation sensors on each individual wheel (mainly for stability control), I'm sure some combination of this would allow them to build a fairly accurate dead reckoning system... Definitely better than stomp based navigation I'd hope
• dlp211 9y ago
  Use an RFID system similar to how EZPass works. Or they can use a lGPS system that supplements GPS data for increased accuracy and decreased latency. Or they can factor in odometer data into the algorithm. Those are just three ideas off the top of my head. There are certainly technical challenges with all of this stuff, but they are driving some of the most technically sophisticated machines on the planet.
• Bromskloss 9y ago
  I was thinking that accelerometers would make sense for counting curves. Then again, maybe they wanted to detect the transition from corner entry to corner exit, and apply the funky extra motors precisely there.
• disordinary 9y ago
  They probably have hundreds of sensors, the FIA certainly has a lot of information that they use when assessing incidents, but this was enough to throw the entire algorithm of multiple sensors off.