DARPA Grand Challenge 2005:fishdan wrote to mention that the Darpa Grand Challenge is getting underway again…. National media has picked up on the story, with pieces at the Washington Post and Seattle Times. From the Post: “The autonomous robotic vehicles began competing Wednesday in the first of a series of qualifying rounds at the California Speedway…. The grueling, weeklong semifinals are designed to test the vehicles’ ability to cover a roughly 2-mile stretch of the track without a human driver or remote control. Participants ranging from souped-up SUVs to military behemoths will be graded on how well they can self-drive on rough road, make sharp turns and avoid obstacles _ hay bales, trash cans, wrecked cars _ while relying on GPS navigation and sensors, radar, lasers and cameras that feed information to computers.”
Browsing Posts published in October, 2005
Is Microsoft capable of honesty?:Commentary: Well, they’ve done it again…. With malice aforethought. The duplicitous droogs, the denizens of deep-doodoo, I’m talking about Bill Gates’ Microsoft: caught in a bald-faced lie about HD DVD-ROM discs…. Not any more than the fact it’s hot in Texas this summer or that Katrina caused a lot of damage. It is, after all, the Microsoft way: dishonesty in all things.
FBI Admits To Making Mistakes In Wiretaps:Our tax dollars and highest COMPETENCY at work!
