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DARPA Grand Challenge A Real Race At Last?

Posted by Zonk on from the flat-out dept.

museumpeace writes "News.com has posted its second story in a week on a hopeful Grand Challenge contender. Stanford's Stanley, a VW Touareg run by 100,000 lines of code can hit 40 mph and has now traversed all but 3 miles of last year's desert course without problems. A few days earlier, Carnegie Mellon University's Team Red announced that its Sandstorm, a modified Hummer, had run 200 miles without any problems though on a closed track. DARPA cut the field to 40 in June and will cut it to 20 before the race in October."

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  1. Re:Arguably the worst name ever for a product... by Dun+Malg · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    It's spelled Touareg. Could VW have come up with a more confusing name for its premium 'ute? I still don't know how to say it!

    The sales-turd at the stealership pronounced it "twar-egg" when I test drove one, but VW ad material says it's "tour-egg". Being that it's taken from the name of a sub-saharan nomadic tribe, the real pronounciation is likely somewhere in between and probably begins with a tongue click instead of a T...

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  2. Re:How many mploc? by hobbesx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wait... Isn't MPLOC Miles Per Library of Congress?

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