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To: Bobalu

I saw a news report about 2 months ago where the army was offering a million dollar prize for the first person that could come up ith a remote control full size truck that could run a 100 mile course in the desert.There were 20 teams i think but no one was able to pull it off the sand and dust shorted them out and obscured the lenses I think


13 posted on 10/17/2004 3:02:15 PM PDT by freepatriot32 (today it was the victory act tomorrow its victory coffee, victory cigarettes...)
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To: freepatriot32

That the DARPA challenge? Not even remote control but fully autonomous ground vehicles. They will run it again next year.


19 posted on 10/17/2004 3:06:32 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: freepatriot32

That sounds like a real amateur effort..

I'm suggesting a contract with someone like Raytheon..

If they can whip up terrain guided cruise missiles they can pull this off.


20 posted on 10/17/2004 3:08:15 PM PDT by Bobalu (This is not the tag line you are looking for.....move along (waves hand))
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To: freepatriot32

That wasn't a remote controlled truck you saw. It was an AI operated truck, one that needed no input whatsoever from humans while it operated. No one has yet done it. But a remote truck should be a snap (if, as another Freeper mentioned, we can get by those pesky manual transmissions on the big rigs).


34 posted on 10/17/2004 3:27:45 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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