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[OM] Re: Why go digital??

Subject: [OM] Re: Why go digital??
From: Gregg Iverson <golftooter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:39:28 -0500
Does brainless count.  We have quite a few that do that 
already.  Unfortunatly, with our freeway under repair to add two lanes in 
each direction, I'm not sure it is a defined course, GPS or no.

I was surprised how quickly most of the vehicles broke down in the competition.

gregg

>But.....
>The US Defense Dept. has a goal of having a high % of all
> > battlefield vehicles be driverless (and wireless, independent) by 2015.
> > They have been spending lots of money with the usual corporate suspects,
> > but also want to tap independent genius. They recently held a
> > competition with a $1 million prize for any one with a vehicle that
> > could traverse a GPS defined course over rugged desert terrain. Nobody
> > even finished, but a couple showed a lot of promise. They plan to do it
> > again soon.



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