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DARPA's Autonomous Vehicle Challenge Too Popular?
Tim writes "Mobilerobotics.org has an editorial accompanying a copy of a letter to one of the teams entering the DARPA Grand Challenge 1 million dollar autonomous vehicle race, in which DARPA admits to underestimating the number of teams that can actually partipate in the actual race. They figure they've only got room for 20 teams, and more than 100 have applied. The writer of the editorial argues that if more than 20 teams can qualify safely and technically, DARPA should have to chose the 20 cheapest financed teams. What should DARPA do to sort out these problems?" CNET News has more on the high turn-out, while DARPA ponders its next step.
taking that 100 million and building some better locale for their races.
In 2000 the broadcast media claimed that Gore had won Florida nearly an hour before the polls closed in the panhandle area (in the Central, rather than Eastern, time zone.) Such a call can be expected to result in a lot of panhandle voters to have stayed home rather than vote.
Since the pahnandle area (unlike the urban areas of the peninsula) is heavily Republican, this no doubt selectively reduced Bush's vote count by a significant factor. NEARLY enough to swing the Florida, and thus the national, election to Gore.
But despite the media's cheers (and slips like a major anchor referring to Gore as "Our candidate"), they didn't QUITE manage to steal the Florida election.
And despite days of squirming - trying to exclude military absentee votes in violation of Federal law, counting every dimple on a ballot, etc., the Democrats STILL weren't able to get the numbers to come out in favor of Gore - either before the Supreme Court finally smacked them down and made them adhere to their own laws, or after months of after-the-election recounting.
Yet the media, and certain Democratic politicians, STILL bury these facts on back pages. And even today they attempt to spin the Media/Democrat axis' failed attempt to steal the election into a successful theft by the Republicans.
What GALL!
One thing I have consistently observed: Whenever someone in the public light is engaged in shady activity, he'll loudly accuse his opponents, or anyone who seems likely to call him on it, of EXACTLY THE SAME WRONGDOING that he himself engages in. This pattern looks like a preemptive strike, trying to give the valid expose the appearance of a schoolyard "He did it!" "No, HE did i!t" finger-pointing contest.
And this instance is a case in point: The media trying (apparently successfully) to cover up their own, very public, attempt to steal an election, with a smokescreen about Republicans allegedly being bigger thieves than they are.
Mod the parent down, because the exact same comment was posted here. This is the new wave of trolls, thanks to the morons and their "Jihad". Mod this to -1.
The Matrix continues to exist.
Sorry to spoil it.
Sorry to spoil it.
The Matrix is not destroyed and continues to exist.
Sorry to spoil it.