Saturday, October 08, 2005
Level Of Difficulty at Work: 2.5 out of 10
NapTime During Lunch: 31min
Today i: would like to congratulate the Stanford University DARPA grand challenge winners! Last years DARPA challenge was outright silly. It's mission is to construct and build a vehicle that drives on it's own through a predetermined path. Last year most vehicles went 200 yards and zoinked. This time 4 vehicles made it through the 132mile desert run. Starting at Primm, Nevada (pretty cool place) and doing a fat loop into the hills and back, the Stanford team beat two other teams by 4 and 10 minutes, both being Humvees from last year. The 4th vehicle is a Ford Escape Hybrid. This is cool, sooner or later we'll have true autopilots in our cars.. woot!
In other news.. these are kinda sweet, but if you dance with these on, it'll be total strobe light action!
NapTime During Lunch: 31min
Today i: would like to congratulate the Stanford University DARPA grand challenge winners! Last years DARPA challenge was outright silly. It's mission is to construct and build a vehicle that drives on it's own through a predetermined path. Last year most vehicles went 200 yards and zoinked. This time 4 vehicles made it through the 132mile desert run. Starting at Primm, Nevada (pretty cool place) and doing a fat loop into the hills and back, the Stanford team beat two other teams by 4 and 10 minutes, both being Humvees from last year. The 4th vehicle is a Ford Escape Hybrid. This is cool, sooner or later we'll have true autopilots in our cars.. woot!
In other news.. these are kinda sweet, but if you dance with these on, it'll be total strobe light action!
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