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CMU First To Qualify For DARPA Grand Challenge

Posted by timothy on from the pole-position dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "As of 18:00 March 9th, Carnegie Mellon's Red Team is the only entry to successfully complete DARPA's Grand Challenge Qualification Inspection and Demonstration (QID) before the main event on March 13th. The NY Times has this article detailing this first step towards winning the Grand Challenge."

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  1. Re:My University Too by MalaclypseTheYounger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Immediately springing to mind is the scene from 'Ocean's Eleven' when the Monster truck is racing the R/C mini-monster truck, and it runs it over.

    This is the Department of Defense, after all, so maybe they will allow 'extra programming' to be done to find competitors (foes?) and destroy them?

    Turn this whole thing into a huge BattleBots contest instead of a Cannonball Run contest .. I'd pay to see that...

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  2. Ack! by ferralis · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would sure hate to be a geologist, prospector, or hermit in the desert that day.

    Gelogist: [mumbling to himself] Finally! Proof that the formation of this arroyo was caused by--

    [Geologist is flattened by an army of driverless cars driving at upwards of 60 mph, one of which detects the collision too late and actually backs up, running over him again, as failing avoidance mechanisms kick in]

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    1. Re:Ack! by Chalybeous · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have a funny feeling some film studies geek is going to follow the action with a DV camera, and edit the raw footage into a movie using the soundtrack from "Cannonball Run"...

      I, for one, welcome our autonomous vehicle overlords - even if they do sound like Burt Reynolds.

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  3. QID by j0hnfr0g · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Qualification Inspection and Demonstration was rumored to be the state's Driver's License Test.

    The vehicles had been fretting about the dreaded parallel parking portion of the test.

  4. Wrong vehicles... by Upright+Joe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, these teams are using the wrong military vehicles. Humvees? Supply trucks? What the hell is that? Seriously man, strap a GPS system onto an M1 Abrams and open that baby up.

    I say screw collision avoidance. Go for collision dominance. Any obstacle capable of stopping a 65 ton tank travelling at 45mph is gonna show up on the mother f**king map.