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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sebastian Thrun is one of the Stanford guys who is giving the free AI class online. Here’s what he’s up to these days:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/how-google-self-driving-car-works">http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/how-google-self-driving-car-works</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s my insight. We know that to get a really high mileage car, we would need to give up something, most likely acceleration. We love our Detroits that can accelerate at .7G, and will not stand for anything that cannot manage about .3G. But if we were along for the ride and not standing on the gas, we would perhaps tolerate much lower acceleration, which is what you get with a series hybrid. If we go with a series hybrid, we save a lot of weight, but they are not fast and they don’t accelerate hard. But if we are reading a book or surfing the internet, we don’t really care that much, ja?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>