Robot race across the Mojave Desert

BUGGER · 2006-04-03, 11:13 PM

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...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.

Ivan · 2006-04-03, 11:52 PM

That's really cool!

Hamma · 2006-04-04, 08:20 AM

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

Geist · 2006-04-04, 11:18 AM

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

Kyonye · 2006-04-04, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by Hawkeye37

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

What happened to the hummer?

Setari · 2006-04-04, 06:20 PM

Probably ran out of gas.

Hamma · 2006-04-04, 06:32 PM

Good call

BUGGER · 2006-04-04, 11:57 PM

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

Electrofreak · 2006-04-05, 04:56 AM

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 · 2006-04-05, 09:14 PM

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.