Teach A Robot To Drive, Win A Million Bucks

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 16, 2003 @10:14AM from the and-spend-it-all-in-vegas dept.

An Anonymous Reader writes "DARPA has released the details of a 'Grand Challenge,' with a $1 million prize. The challenge is to build an autonomous vehicle which can 'navigate on its own over a 250-mile desert course in less than 10 hours.' from L.A. to Vegas, 'without external communication or human control.' The contest is to be conducted in March 2004, and is open to all comers. Can we get at least one entry to represent slashdot?" We've mentioned this contest a few times before: any intended entrants out there want to disclose your secret plans?

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Yeah, right. by WasterDave · 2003-03-16 11:05 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Drive itself across a desert for ten hours then, like, get pizza or something? I think not. What they want is something that will drive itself for ten hours then go fucking BANG! and take out a whole shitload of unsuspecting Iraqi's.

We're just, like, interested to see if it can be done. Here, have a million bucks. Sure, fuck you.

Dave

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