<![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> Hope CalTech's outing goes better than last time:
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I love that van...

Mad_Science

]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> If you've got kids who think they want to grow up to be long haul truck drivers...encourage them to be robotic-truck-IT-technologists instead.

This technology will be on world expressways, moving trailer-trains between regional terminals, within 15 years. Maybe even 10. This is the last generation of long haul truckers. Country music is gonna be hurtin'.

JWilly48519

]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> Windows can do a better job driving than some people in the Bay Area.

And, Googles totally gonna unleash that thing to complete "Streetview"

rt4

]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> Cool, a 4WD Econoline...

Build that with a 6 spd manual, Ford

danio3834

]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> ...Oh, I forgot my Windows XP joke about having to reboot the car when stuck on the side of the road (my '97 MBZ E320 has actually forced me to do exactly that on a few occasions!)

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing

]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> Having gotten my BSEE degree at Caltech in '85 and worked as a DoD circuit designer for over a decade, during the dying gasps of the cold-war rigidity, DARPA is doing this correctly in the post-MIL-SPEC this and MIL-HDBK that world. A tax dollar goes SO much further using this approach. Of course at present I prefer to drive my own car, but who's to say someday we couldn't settle in with a good book as our robotic wheels chauffeur us to Vegas or Grandma's or wherever.

Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing

]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> I don't want cars to drive themselves. That's what I like to do. There's enough idiots out there driving already; we don't need more powered by Windows. Long live the Luddites.

Benson2175

]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> @Turboner: Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that this is fuggin' cool. Thanks, Jalopnik, for covering something that isn't another boring crossover. I kid, I kid...

Turboner

]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> @elwood: Precicely what's wrong with our military spending today.

This reminds me a little of my childhood experience with Olympics of the Mind, only they couldn't possibly have paid for their projects by selling beef jerky and stationery... We could have done better than 3rd place at Nationals with seed money like that :)

Turboner

]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> Mmmm...

Man, i want to get in on some of this...

Shapeshifter

]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> go Stanley!

mikedrawcar

]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> The DARPA grand challenge is exactly in the spirit of what DARPA is for, and it's doubly better because the project is a competition between private groups organized by DARPA. If there was a contract to develop an autonomous vehicle given out to Lockeed or Raytheon or somesuch, it'd cost somewhere between 10 and 50 times as much, and probably give worse results.

elwood

]]> <![CDATA[DARPA Grand Challenge: Million-Dollar Babies]]> Well, for once I can say my tax dollars are going for something kewl.

NovaloadMissesPolar

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