Eleven Finalists in Pentagon's Robotic Rally

An anonymous reader writes "A mere 11 driverless vehicles — not the 20 originally planned — will compete in this weekend's $3.5 million all-robot street rally, hosted by the Pentagon. After a series of crashes, dangerous turns, and aimless wanderings off of the course, the rest of the robo-cars in the "Urban Challenge" were deemed unsafe to compete."

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Re:Drivers' tests and Pentagon competitions

[BadAnalogyGuy]

things like driving ninety miles an hour, OBSERVING stop signs, YIELDING the right of way, RESPECTING pedestrians, etc, etc, etc.

I'll bet that really endears us to the locals and makes them more likely to have positive feelings towards Americans. When you hear about how well our ambassadors on the ground are behaving, you almost wonder why the Iraqis aren't embracing us with open arms.