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  • The Crowd Delivers: DARPA’s XC2V Military Vehicle Arrives On Time

    06/27/2011 4:39:18 AM PDT · by James C. Bennett · 29 replies
    Gizmodo ^ | June 26, 2011 | Gizmodo
    When Local Motors won DARPA's XC2V private "crowd-sourced" competition about 14 weeks ago, they secured the right to build a prototype that could eventually serve as a next-gen military vehicle for U.S. armed forces. Not a lot of time! As you can see, however, they delivered. The fruits of their labor are on display above. Now, while a new kick-ass military vehicle is cool, the true goal of DARPA's competition was to see how much faster a crowd-sourced project could go from concept to prototype than traditional means. Turns out the answer was "much faster," with Local Motors completing their...