DARPA race ends without winner
DARPA sponsored what sounded like a wonderful idea for a race - entries would be autonomous motor vehicles and the racecourse would be the open desert - starting at Barstow, CA and driving across the Mojave Desert for 150 miles, with a finish line in Las Vegas. The purse was One Million Dollars.
The race took place and unfortunately, no one crossed the finish line - the farthest that anyone got was seven miles.
CNN has a writeup
here
Slashdot had some info
here (scroll down for the comments)
The two teams who tied at seven miles are
RedTeam and
SciAutonics
This should be interesting if DARPA sponsors it again next year...
Posted by DaveH at March 14, 2004 7:19 PM