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Tom's Looks at Two DARPA Grand Challengers

Posted by timothy on from the thrum-thrum-thrum dept.

skeeball writes "As a follow-up to this article, Tom's Hardware has a behind the scenes article on two of the teams competing in the DARPA Grand Challenge 2005. "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) hosted the first Grand Challenge Project last year, offering a reward of $1 million. This year, the prize money has been doubled, making the competition all the more interesting.""

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  1. Article Link? by sH4RD · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for the article link! I love having it at my finger tips here on Slashdot!

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  2. Re:Big money in defence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Whoever would have thought the government likes to remove fences? This whole time I thought they were errecting them! Heh-heh, I said erect.

  3. Seven Pentium-M CPUs by Humorously_Inept · · Score: 3, Funny

    /* just kidding

    Sure, Tom. Give Intel product all the coverage in the world, but what about AMD?

    "AMD-powered DARPA Grand Challenge competitor overheats and explodes. Kills millions and incinerates $2 million prize. Intel steps up and offers 2 million Pentium MMX Bunny Man dolls ca 1997 to winning team."

    just kidding */

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  4. Re:They also pictured the wrong vehicle by brilinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah. Stupid Sandstorm almost ran me over in the Morewood parking lot. It was pretty cool, though, almost getting run over by a high tech robotic military vehicle. Makes for a great story.

  5. Re:Article Link by zardor · · Score: 4, Funny

    They'll probably get it right tomorrow in the dupe.

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