<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Ken and Mark, we are stepping ever closer towards smarter cities and communities.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Next year, an international conference about Intelligent Transport systems or ITS2016 is being hosed in Melbourne. </div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://www.its-australia.com.au/events/2016-its-world-congress-melbourne/" class="">https://www.its-australia.com.au/events/2016-its-world-congress-melbourne/</a><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As some of you who follow my Twitter feed already know, I’m working closely with VicRoads to develop an antonymous vehicle that students can program as part of a wider challenge the following year. My moonshot will be for our students will be able to showcase their work (model > move > think) later this year at a DET Maker Fair and at ITS2016. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ll look forward to sharing some details and welcome your questions and ideas at DLTV2015. Don’t forget to register :-)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>https://dltv.vic.edu.au/dltv-annual-conference-2015<br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards Roland<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 6 May 2015, at 3:41 pm, ken price <kenjprice@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/business-it/forget-selfdriving-google-cars-australia-has-selfdriving-trucks-20141020-118o47.html" class="">http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/business-it/forget-selfdriving-google-cars-australia-has-selfdriving-trucks-20141020-118o47.html</a><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(93,96,99);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:14.5920000076294px;line-height:20.4288005828857px" class="">"Mining company Rio Tinto uses huge self-automated trucks on mines in the Pilbara region of Western Australia that are programmed to drive themselves and navigate mine roads and intersections using sensors, GPS, and radar guidance systems. The trucks self-drive but are overseen by a controller in Perth, 1800 kilometres away."</span><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(93,96,99);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:14.5920000076294px;line-height:20.4288005828857px" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Mark <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank" class="">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Now they have <b class="">18</b> wheels.<div class=""><br class=""></div>"Daimler bigwig Wolfgang Bernhard and Nevada governor Brian Sandoval are sharing a stage, mugging for the phalanx of cameras, together holding the metal rectangle that will, in just a minute, be slapped onto the world’s first officially recognized self-driving truck.<br class=""><br class="">"The truck in question is the Freightliner Inspiration, a teched-up version of the Daimler 18-wheeler sold around the world. And according to Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz, it will make long-haul road transportation safer, cheaper, and better for the planet.<br class=""><br class="">“There’s a clear need for this generation of trucks, and we’re the pioneers who are willing to tackle it,” says Bernhard."<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">But read on - it's not quite as startling as it seems.</i><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/05/worlds-first-self-driving-semi-truck-hits-road/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.wired.com/2015/05/worlds-first-self-driving-semi-truck-hits-road/</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px" class="">A conclusion is the place where you got sick of thinking.</span><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mark Kelly</div><div class="">mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div class=""><a href="http://vceit.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://vceit.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Gainfully Unemployed</div><div class="">- ITA Edulist Moderator</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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