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Engadget HD Podcast 293 - 04.03.2012

This week we've got a fresh set of video apps for the Xbox 360, including Comcast Xfinity TV, HBO Go and MLB.tv. In a bit of a throwback session, we've also got some discussion concerning Windows Media Center (both in Windows 8 and the upcoming Ceton Q), Kaleidescape and even our old friend tru2way checking in from the Great White North. After that we've got some businessy news to take care of and a quick heads up for HDTV shoppers before we talk about what we've been watching (hint: Lilyhammer.)

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00:11:25 - Xbox 360 apps now live for Comcast Xfinity TV, HBO Go and MLB.tv
00:25:00 - Ceton's Q DVR companion app for Windows Phone gets detailed tour
00:29:48 - Media Center to live in a separate version of Windows 8?
00:36:45 - Kaleidescape DVD servers granted a temporary stay
00:42:53 - Seas0npass tethered jailbreak now available for Apple TV 2s running iOS 5.1
00:44:38 - Tribune stations nationwide including WGN America go dark on DirecTV
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00:54:00 - Samsung Display spinoff officially launches as 'the world's largest display manufacturer'
00:58:15 - Flat-panel TV shipments to fall for the first time ever in 2012?
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Google testing heads-up display glasses in public, won't make you look like Robocop

The good news: Google has started testing those augmented reality glasses we heard about earlier in the year. The bad news: if the artsy shots of the test units are to be believed, they won't make you look like some '80s cinematic anti-hero. In fact, the things wouldn't look too out of place in a New York Times style story. The software giant let it be know that, while it hasn't quite got a sale date on the wearables, it's ready to test ProjectGlass amongst the non-augmented public. The company is also looking for feedback on the project, writing in a post today, "we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input." Want some idea of what ProjectGlass might offer the public? Sure, it's not quite as good as strapping a pair on your own eyes, but interested parties can check out a video of Google's vision after the break.

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Driverless cars ready to hit our roads

Sceptical about autonomous cars? Too late. They're already here ? and they're smarter than ever

LEAN back, let go of the steering wheel, ease your feet off the pedals and relax: your car is now in charge. The dream of a car that can drive itself has grown over the last decade as the necessary technologies have gradually proved their worth, but the idea has faced major legal hurdles.

Not for much longer. Politicians are now scrambling to make self-driving cars a reality. From Hawaii to Florida, and Oxford to Berlin, the race is on to get driverless cars onto our streets.

Promising improved safety, better fuel-efficiency and freedom from the boredom of long drives, autonomy has been coming piecemeal to our cars for some time - and it has always had its critics. In 1994, on a UK motorway, Jaguar and Lucas Industries demonstrated the safety of adaptive cruise control and automatic lane keeping; both technologies are now commonplace on our roads. The media were not impressed, describing the idea of cars that drive themselves as "madness".

But concerns about the safety of autonomous cars are misplaced in a world where 1.2 million people die every year in road accidents due to human error, says Paul Newman, a robotics engineer at the University of Oxford, whose team is developing autonomous cars.

"It's crazy to imagine that we are going to keep driving cars like we do now - that in 10 to 20 years we'll still have to sit behind a wheel, concentrating hard, not falling asleep and not running over people," he says.

This notion now has powerful backers - and barriers are beginning to fall. In an act that came into force on 1 March, the state of Nevada now allows driverless cars to ply the state's road network provided they sport a special red licence plate, and the owners pay a $1 to $3 million insurance bond. Similar legislation is being considered in California, Arizona, Florida, Hawaii and Oklahoma.

The phenomenon is not confined to the US either. In Germany, a driverless car research team led by Tinosch Ganjineh at the Free University of Berlin has permits to use the abandoned Templehof airport for autonomous tests. When necessary, team members get special permits to drive on Berlin's streets, and hope to drive on the autobahn soon. The Oxford team plan to approach the British government for similar permits.

The Berlin team are automating a VW Passat, patriotically named MadeInGermany, while Oxford is turning a BAE Systems WildCat military jeep into a self-driving machine. Nissan has just joined the Oxford project, so the Leaf all-electric car may end up driverless too.

Driverless cars first appeared in a meaningful way in the US Defence Advanced Research Project Agency's "grand challenges". Cars competed to drive fastest around desert courses in 2004 and 2005, and in an urban setting in 2007.

Mike Montemerlo and Sebastian Thrun of Stanford University, California, whose car won the 2005 prize, lead Google's self-driving car research programme. Their cars, based on the Toyota Prius and Audi TT, typify the approaches of the Oxford and Berlin teams. All the cars have laser rangefinders, radar and optical cameras to sense the vehicle's changing real-time environment with high accuracy. They know where the traffic lights and road signs are, and which moving objects are animals, people, bikes, motorbikes or trucks. Newman's team are studying how algorithms can make sense of data streaming from a 3D laser rangefinder and quickly decide whether an object is a car or pedestrian, for example. His team is also looking at how a robotic visual system can build up a picture of its world and adapt to changing conditions, varying light levels or even seasons. The commercial sensors and software to make this happen are still some way off, though.

"The Velodyne - the 64 spinning lasers on top of most driverless cars - give a quickly updated 360-degree, 3D view of the surroundings up to 40 metres away," says Newman. But cars of the future won't have unwieldy spinning lasers on them, he says.

Ganjineh agrees that driverless technology has to be refined. "The size and price of these systems needs to come down. Today, half a trunk of equipment is needed for autonomous driving," he says.

Another challenge, says Newman, is getting the cars to recognise the precursors to risky events - like sudden bright sun reflections on the road, truck spray, which may blind some sensors, or simply a burst tyre.

Google's cars, meanwhile, tell each other about the roads they have travelled, such as exchanging data on how to negotiate awkward junctions, says Vinton Cerf, a Google technology evangelist. Ganjineh wants similar technology to broadcast GPS map changes car-to-car, when there are roadworks ahead, for example.

However, driverless cars will not need to communicate wirelessly with expensive roadside technology as they need to be "independently smart" and aware of all risks around them at all times, says Newman.

"Automation of cars is going to happen," he says. "Computing has caused devastating change and transport is going to be its next target."

If the going's tough, the car gets cover

Driverless cars could reduce insurance costs, says Paul Newman of the University of Oxford, by allowing the car to add to its own insurance as road conditions change.

"On a dark icy night, when it is riskier to drive, the car could go online and bid for extra insurance cover until conditions change," he says. "If that proves too expensive, because conditions are tough for the autonomous system, the owner could take the wheel."

Meanwhile, clear standards for programmers and developers of such cars need to be drawn up, says Tinosch Ganjineh at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, as accident liability may fall more often on software or sensor-makers.

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