Autonomous Supra

[WSUPRA]

Stopped by the Toyota Research Institute booth at CVPR today - their booth featured a Supra they programmed to drift and navigate a track autonomously. So cool!!



TRI, please let me take a ride. ??

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[Extreme Power House]

I'm not a fan of this. Autonomous driving is excellent as a safety measure, assisting drivers to regain control and prevent accidents.

However, if the system is doing all the work and you're simply a passive participant, why even have a driver's car like the Supra?

The essence of a Supra is in the driving experience, and if you're not driving, you are better off getting a different car. Instead of customers paying money for this upgrade, I would encourage them to take drifting classes, its a lot cheaper and makes the drifting experience way more fun.

 

[AJRMKV]

Technologically cool.. But the first thing I did upon delivery of my Supra was turn off all the nannies.

 

[XtremeMaC]

I'm not a fan of this. Autonomous driving is excellent as a safety measure, assisting drivers to regain control and prevent accidents.

However, if the system is doing all the work and you're simply a passive participant, why even have a driver's car like the Supra?

The essence of a Supra is in the driving experience, and if you're not driving, you are better off getting a different car. Instead of customers paying money for this upgrade, I would encourage them to take drifting classes, its a lot cheaper and makes the drifting experience way more fun.

I don't think they're ever going to implement such a thing to any cars at this point.
It's just them showing off their capabilities with a cool car.
They couldn't do it on random roads anyhow. Even if I hadn't viewed the video, they would have had to extensively manually drive on the track and feed bunch of GPS data for it to do any of that. That's what it sounded like anyhow.

It doesn't seem to have any cameras or lidar, etc. so it's relying on last position and track telemetry to do all that..

 

[WSUPRA]

I'm not a fan of this. Autonomous driving is excellent as a safety measure, assisting drivers to regain control and prevent accidents.

However, if the system is doing all the work and you're simply a passive participant, why even have a driver's car like the Supra?

The essence of a Supra is in the driving experience, and if you're not driving, you are better off getting a different car. Instead of customers paying money for this upgrade, I would encourage them to take drifting classes, its a lot cheaper and makes the drifting experience way more fun.

This is a proof of concept for computer vision research done by Toyota.

There is no intention to implement autonomous drifting in everyone’s car.

 

[S2k]

I kinda looked at this beyond making a car drift where the algorithms could prove useful for safety where it could actually help a car autonomously regain control when the driver has lost it.

 

[FuzzyRev]

This is a proof of concept for computer vision research done by Toyota.

There is no intention to implement autonomous drifting in everyone’s car.

This. It's just a demo of the technology, nothing more.

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