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DARPA Grand Challenge Updates
Red Team writes "Today is the day. The official race route for the DARPA Grand Challenge was released to the first five teams at 4:00AM PST this morning. Our race planners are pouring over the race route getting ready for the launch. H1ghlander will start first at sunrise, around 6:15AM PST, followed by Stanford and then Sandstorm. For real-time updates on the race, you can track the Red Team race-day blog or catch the webcast on the official Grand Challenge page." Update: 10/08 20:57 GMT by Z : USSJoin writes "Stanford Racing, home of Stanley, has just finished the 131.2 mile DARPA Grand Challenge course. Considering that the CalTech Vehicle (Alice) jumped off the track toward onlookers only 8.3 miles in, this demolition derby-meets-AI demo has certainly been exciting."
Sure, they're all just happy cars driving a fun race...until they rule us all!!
I, for one, welcome our four-wheel and rear-wheeled drive overlords, and pledge my allegiance to Emperor Camry.
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the goverment use only the brightest children to design military hardware
Every team has managed to make it past the point traveled last year - except for one. The MITRE Meterorites, who in one hours and seven minutes traveled a total of 0 miles. I'll bet you they can at least double that next year. :) I have to wonder how they managed to qualify for this round if they weren't even able to leave the starting line.
(MITRE is probably best known as "that contractor who decided that Windows NT should run that battleship that was stranded when Windows NT BSODed on its test run".)
Even without a webcast, it's better than this year's OU vs Texas game.
3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
Good thing they stopped it before it tasted human blood. If it had we would have never stopped its killing rampage.
military hardware design the children! Do other countries use their dumbest children to design military hardware? That could explain the fact that America is the only superpower.