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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:Cool by kill-9-0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did you also ask why Bill Clinton didn't push SUV fuel consumption to better levels?

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    Liberalism...the next best thing to thinking.
  2. Re:Cool by dave420 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The US is so behind on gas mileage it's hilarious. You can get standard, ordinary road cars all over Europe that do insane mpg (70), yet the H2 hummer manages only 1mpg. I guess in the states it's form over function :-P and an ugly form at that ;)

  3. Priority by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "A truly autonomous vehicle will revolutionize land transportation. It will be a new tool certain to improve mankind's quality of life.." Red Whittaker Team director

    Wrong priority, what about revolutionizing land transportation with a non polluting vehicle ..