cheerful_deviant
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Well, not yet, but it may be closer than you think. Anyone else follow the DARPA Challange?
Basically it's a competition to make a pratical driverless vheicle for the millitary to limit the number of support personnel needed and limit their exposure. The goal is to have a percentage of all vheicles in the armed forces be 'driverless' by 2015. To reach this goal the military has been using competitions to get colleges and private individuals to make test vheicles then race them.
The first race in 2004 was basically a disaster. The bes tof the bunch only made it a few miles of a 60 mile course through the desert. THe next year several completed the challange.
This year was the 'Urban' challange. THe vheicles had to negotiate busy streets, merge with traffic and make it to their destination.... all with no human input at all. The most amazing part not that one even finished but how many actually completed the race without a scratch.
Basically it's a competition to make a pratical driverless vheicle for the millitary to limit the number of support personnel needed and limit their exposure. The goal is to have a percentage of all vheicles in the armed forces be 'driverless' by 2015. To reach this goal the military has been using competitions to get colleges and private individuals to make test vheicles then race them.
The first race in 2004 was basically a disaster. The bes tof the bunch only made it a few miles of a 60 mile course through the desert. THe next year several completed the challange.
This year was the 'Urban' challange. THe vheicles had to negotiate busy streets, merge with traffic and make it to their destination.... all with no human input at all. The most amazing part not that one even finished but how many actually completed the race without a scratch.
