Daily Marauder

CES Buzz: Automotive Hotness 

Driverless Car: It drives.  You chill.

GM Chevy Tahoe

Check out GM’s Chevy Tahoe that can literally drive itself.  Using a laser that spins 360 degrees to detect all objects along with a GPS system to navigate, you can sip that double latte while the car does all the work.   

The Lidar: A spinning scanner with 64 individual scanners in it.

GM teamed up with engineers from Carnegie Mellon to create this concept car.  Expect road-ready vehicles in about 10 years.  The car was developed in 18 months to compete in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge.  My only negative feedback after the test drive: the car was a bit jerky from start to stop.  My car can do 60 in 3.6 seconds.  Oh yeah!?!?  Mine can drive itself.  Word.

Steven Colbert digs it.  Check out his piece about the self-driving car and his hope for a self-writing script to save him from the Writer’s Strike. 

BMW’s Pit Lane Park

First, I stopped into a kiosk off the track to catch BMW fans playing racing games from within the formula cars.

And then I plopped down to watch Chris Viper attempt some general scariness on a BMW motorcycle.