Ken Gilmer of BugLabs talks to Alternageek Tech Show and demos the Bugs.

The opening keynote for LinuxWorld Expo 2008 was given by Sebastian Thrun of Stanford Google and titled “Making Cars Drive Themselves”. In the keynote he detailed how the project to build a car that could navigate and make decisions based on traffic, terrain, and traffic rules as well as be completely independent and need no human interaction to reach it’s destination.

Junior was on display on the expo floor and we snagged some pictures:

There are numerous videos as well avaiable on YouTube chronicling the project, the DARPA Grand Challenge:

Episode 43 will be published Wednesday, July 16th. Episode 43 was recorded and would normally have been published today but issues with my Internet service provider yesterday kept me from completing the editing/uploading. Hopefully the technician that is scheduled to come out today will resolve the service interruption issues. Look for episode 43 tomorrow!