Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With 11.9 seconds left to play in the extra period and Harvard leading 68-67, Yale guard Jim Kawahito hit a short jump shot in the lane to give to put the Elis up for good. Crimson junior forward Mike Gilmore tried to retake the lead again with a driving layup seven seconds later, but it did not fall. Harvard 68 Yale...
Katy Davis, who replaced Feaster, put Harvard back in the lead for good, burying a five-footer from the lane. Jessica Gelman sank two free throws with 10 seconds remaining and Harvard clinging to an 84-83 lead...
...that wasn't the half of it. One trip down the court later, isolated by her defender and the ball behind the three-point stripe, Proudfit backed into the lane and launched an improbable turnaround 10-footer, barely even looking...
...technology-- cameras, laser range finders, sonar and motors--works in three stages. First ALVINN ``sees'' the road by taping it as well as sending out laser and sonar waves as Jochem drives. Then the computer goes into training, replaying the tape thousands of times, studying the details--road signs, lane markers, speed limits. Finally ALVINN drives a stretch of road, handling his own acceleration, braking and steering...
...should be a substantial difference,'' promises Pomerleau. The researchers say they are only a couple of years from achieving a preliminary goal, perfecting ALVINN as an anticollision device to jog sleepy drivers before they run off the road. When a car drifts dangerously close to the border of its lane, a road-watching camera would do something like ring an alarm bell or shake the driver's seat. ``Fully automated driving may be a ways off,'' says Pomerleau, ``but in the near term we're doing work to save lives.'' For now, however, if you see ALVINN coming...