As the inevitable robot takeover looms, it’s nice to know we have one surprising weapon in our arsenal: kangaroos.
Volvo has confessed that the springy marsupials are throwing off the “Large Animal Detection” systems being developed for self-driving cars, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reports. Those systems are meant to make sure the cars avoid animals along the road, such as deer or cattle.
But the hopping of the kangaroos is messing with the detection, which uses the ground as a reference point, Volvo Australia’s technical manager David Pickett told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
“We’ve noticed with the kangaroo…
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