Preparing for the DARPA Autonomous Vehicle Challenge

Little Hamster writes "Post-gazette.com has an interesting article on the DARPA funded 200-mile autonomous vehicle race across the California-Nevada desert. They interviewed teams from two of the early favourites, Carnegie Mellon University and the California Institute of Technology. The teams talked about challenges on driving at high speed over a combination of roads, rough terrain and brush-covered desert, where the robot would need to consider how fast it can make a turn, the possibility of spinning tires and the potential to become airborne when hitting bumps."

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Who Do You Want to Shoot Today?

[billstewart]

It's so frustrating watching DARPA technology. They get to play with lots of cool stuff, but 90% of it's about killing people, making nuclear war more practical, or causing other kinds of evil and terrorism, and the rest of it's mostly about protecting soldiers (who are out doing those things) or else cleaning up the mess from nuclear and chemical weapons manufacturing.

On the other hand, they get to blow stuff up, use expensive computers, and build really cool networks....