Re: The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
"Jim Wilkins" <[email protected]>
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"a425couple" wrote in message news:cDlfS.6198$I0%[email protected]... from https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/the-first-self-driving-vehicle-on-mars-has-proven-to-be-a-smashing-success/ go to citation to see the graphics The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous. ------------------------------------------ The round ultrasonic parking sensors on new car bumpers are simple examples of the enabling tech. I helped prototype a robot toy that used cheap IR distance sensors to partly automate its travel. https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2019/12/23/distance-sensors-types-and-selection-guide/? 3D laser scanners create models of surrounding objects more accurately than our eyes, which are too close together to give correct distances to unfamiliar objects much beyond our feet. A good example is the difficulty of judging height above ground when landing.