You should have your car checked to make sure the energy-absorption structure under the bumper cover isn't permanently crushed, which would make it ineffective next time.
Ummm, those bushes don't spring up overnight. Not to more than a couple of inches, anyway.
Nevertheless, since there was some sort of "roadway" for the entire length of the route, there was really no need to distinguish between rocks and bushes. If your vehicle was intended to steer around a 2" rock, then you had made a fatal mistake before leaving the gate.
Exactly. And they weren't supposed to rely only upon GPS because it might be intermittent, but because DARPA gave them only *waypoints*, locations they were required to pass close to, as opposed to a complete route! The waypoints were only supposed to be numerous enough to plot a general path across the desert, but not NEARLY enough to guide every foot of the vehicles' travel.
The vehicle's sensors need to be good enough that a clear path can be computed. What if there's 300 meters of lazily winding road, with a big pile of rocks on one side, and a dropoff on the other, between where you and the next waypoint?
So you have to wonder what the Red Team member meant by "we were within one meter of GPS". At best, it's a red herring. At worst, he didn't know what he was talking about.
Yes, that's one of the complaints we keep hearing. There are lots of other destinations to choose from, though! Maybe some of these will be more to your liking: http://www.bahamas.com, http://www.hawaii.com (Hawaii is expensive, but still cheaper than Mars.)
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I don't see any survey. Why are we seeing a /. post whose central tenet is suggested by a survey that isn't referenced?
You should have your car checked to make sure the energy-absorption structure under the bumper cover isn't permanently crushed, which would make it ineffective next time.
... but that there IS no choice of search engine as Google is the only one.
Ummm, those bushes don't spring up overnight. Not to more than a couple of inches, anyway. Nevertheless, since there was some sort of "roadway" for the entire length of the route, there was really no need to distinguish between rocks and bushes. If your vehicle was intended to steer around a 2" rock, then you had made a fatal mistake before leaving the gate.
Exactly. And they weren't supposed to rely only upon GPS because it might be intermittent, but because DARPA gave them only *waypoints*, locations they were required to pass close to, as opposed to a complete route! The waypoints were only supposed to be numerous enough to plot a general path across the desert, but not NEARLY enough to guide every foot of the vehicles' travel. The vehicle's sensors need to be good enough that a clear path can be computed. What if there's 300 meters of lazily winding road, with a big pile of rocks on one side, and a dropoff on the other, between where you and the next waypoint? So you have to wonder what the Red Team member meant by "we were within one meter of GPS". At best, it's a red herring. At worst, he didn't know what he was talking about.
Yes, that's one of the complaints we keep hearing. There are lots of other destinations to choose from, though! Maybe some of these will be more to your liking: http://www.bahamas.com, http://www.hawaii.com (Hawaii is expensive, but still cheaper than Mars.)