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Old 2006-04-03, 11:13 PM   [Ignore Me] #1
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Robot race across the Mojave Desert


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.
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Old 2006-04-03, 11:52 PM   [Ignore Me] #2
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That's really cool!
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Old 2006-04-04, 08:20 AM   [Ignore Me] #3
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Very cool - look at all the equipment on the roof of that hummer
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Old 2006-04-04, 11:18 AM   [Ignore Me] #4
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I watched that.Did they ever tell you what went wrong with the Hummer?
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Old 2006-04-04, 06:17 PM   [Ignore Me] #5
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Originally Posted by Hawkeye37
I watched that.Did they ever tell you what went wrong with the Hummer?

What happened to the hummer?
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Old 2006-04-04, 06:20 PM   [Ignore Me] #6
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Probably ran out of gas.
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Old 2006-04-04, 06:32 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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Good call
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Old 2006-04-04, 11:57 PM   [Ignore Me] #8
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Its a 130 mile course so gas probably was not a factor....unless it went on for a few days.
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Old 2006-04-05, 04:56 AM   [Ignore Me] #9
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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.
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Old 2006-04-05, 09:14 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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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.
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