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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. A top improvement would still be armor by expro · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A great safety improvement would still be proper armor. Doesn't take a genius but then the current administration is one of anti-geniuses who can't handle the truth even when their faces are rubbed in it, but sure, let's have more contests while soldiers die left and right in Iraq, and who will ever benefit if they still can't get properly-armored vehicles?

  2. Obligatory MGS reference! by llamaluvr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    DARPA Chief!

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