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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>OK, so it really was an obvious idea. All my ideas are either old or crazy. I thought this one might be crazy, but turns out it was sane and old:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://singularityhub.com/2012/08/19/stanfords-self-driving-car-tears-it-up-on-racetrack-tops-120-mph/?utm_source=The+Harvest+Is+Bountiful&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=204dd50256-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN">http://singularityhub.com/2012/08/19/stanfords-self-driving-car-tears-it-up-on-racetrack-tops-120-mph/?utm_source=The+Harvest+Is+Bountiful&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=204dd50256-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:3.75pt;mso-line-height-alt:15.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6D6E71'>Stanford’s Self-Driving Car Tears It Up On Racetrack – Tops 120 MPH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#6D6E71'>Just as Google’s self-driving Prius goes for distance, recently <a href="http://singularityhub.com/2012/08/15/googles-self-driving-car-passes-300000-miles-employees-to-start-commuting-with-it/">passing 300,000 miles</a>, Stanford’s self-driving Audi TTS instead has the need for speed. The Audi, known as Shelley, sped around the Thunderhill Raceway track north of Sacramento <a href="http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2012/pr-shelley-autonomous-car-081312.html">topping 120 miles per hour</a> on straightaways. The less than two and a half minutes it took to complete the 3-mile course is comparable to times achieved by professional drivers…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kewall… {8-]<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>