Still More on the DARPA Grand Challenge
The SF Chronicle has an in-depth story on the DARPA Grand Challenge, with emphasis on the several teams from the San Francisco area. The three teams covered are using a pickup truck, a six-wheeled all-terrain vehicle, and a self-balancing motorcycle...
The technology involved might seem interesting to us, but the USE that it will be put to will be killing innocent people who live in energy-rich regions of the world that don't agree to hand over their natural resources to the US on US terms, aka 'terrorists'.