Tuesday 11 October 2005

Darpa's Grand Challenge race has been Run and Won

In case you missed all the buzz here ...
Reuters - A Stanford University team won a $2 million prize on Sunday for sending a modified Volkswagen across 132 miles of rugged desert, guided only by sensors and computers in a race the Pentagon hopes will lead to a technological breakthrough in warfare.
[Via
Yahoo! News: Odd News]

and here ...
Driverless cars traversed 132 miles of desert to complete the DARPA Grand
Challenge. Also: NASA's 'bots for on high.
[Via
CNET News.com]

and here ...
Crossing the finish line in Darpa's Grand Challenge race, four driverless vehicles use computers, sensors, radar, GPS tracking and drive-by-wire systems to traverse the 132-mile desert course.
[Via
Wired News]

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