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Mac OS X Drives Grand Challenge Entry

Posted by Zonk on from the apples-for-brains dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Apple technology drives a new fully-autonomous vehicle developed for a major U.S. competition. From the article: 'Team Banzai is one of just 40 teams selected from 118 entrants from around North America to have made it through to the semi-finals of the 2005 DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge.'"

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  1. I, for one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...welcome our OS X-powered autonomous vehicle overlords.

  2. Must be a marvel of engineering... by Laivincolmo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...with only a single pedal for both acceleration and braking...

    1. Re:Must be a marvel of engineering... by Suburbanpride · · Score: 4, Funny

      technicaly, there are three accelerators on a car the gas pedal provides positive acceleration, the brake provides negative acceleration and the steering wheel allwos for lateral acceleration.

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  3. Guffaw Guffaw by Lord+Marlborough · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's biggest advantage is that it gets to start off several years ahead of any windows machines... Ha Ha... hmmmmm :-(

  4. Meanwhile... by Tiberius_Fel · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Linux car drove in a never-ending circle (infinite loop), the Solaris car barely got moving at speed, and the Windows car crashed into a tree... :P

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    1. Re:Meanwhile... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, it's obviously the Mac car that drives in an infinite loop.

    2. Re:Meanwhile... by ZorbaTHut · · Score: 5, Funny

      The Mac car puttered along at 5mph, but damn did it look pretty.

      The SCO car just clamped onto the back of the Linux car for the entire race.

      The Amiga car was a marvel of engineering, but fell into a ditch two miles in.

      And the Hurd car will be ready to race any day now. Really.

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    3. Re:Meanwhile... by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, the Linux car never left the start-line, because RMS stood in front of it and refused to move unless they started calling it the GNU/Linux car.

  5. An obvious choice by civman2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I were designed a car, I'd want to be sure it had a dashboard too!

    And since it's autonomous, it doesn't need any Windows!

  6. Buckaroo! by invisigoth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dr. Lizardo surrenders.

    IMDB

  7. Re:In other news... by sokoban · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, they have a better market share among Grand Challenge entries than they do on the desktop.

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  8. Automator! by robolemon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course they built an autonomous vehicle with Mac OS X! It has Automator! Just drag and drop the Chess AI engine onto a car and you should be good to go!

    All this talk of coding, and they didn't even need to do any!

    Silly slashdotters!

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