Robot race across the Mojave Desert

[BUGGER]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/10/08/state/n135055D53.DTL

A customized Volkswagen SUV entered by Stanford University became the first autonomous vehicle to cross the finish line of a $2 million Pentagon-sponsored race across the rugged Mojave Desert on Saturday without help from a human driver or remote control

Couple months old, but none the less, very cool. There was a special on it on Nova a week or two ago.

Forgot to mention it.:rolleyes:

[Ivan]

That's really cool!

[Hamma]

Very cool - look at all the equipment on the roof of that hummer :lol:

[Geist]

I watched that.Did they ever tell you what went wrong with the Hummer?

[Kyonye]

I watched that.Did they ever tell you what went wrong with the Hummer?


What happened to the hummer?

[Setari]

Probably ran out of gas. :p

[Hamma]

:lol: Good call

[BUGGER]

:lol:


Its a 130 mile course so gas probably was not a factor....unless it went on for a few days.

[Electrofreak]

I'd heard that this race was going to be done, kinda cool that it actually got completed.

I'm a little dissapointed they were given a course though... I thought the vehicle AIs would have to figure out the route by themselves.

[BUGGER]

It was a set destination, get from point A to point B.

However in order to qualify they had to navigate through a set course with barrels and whatnot.