Eleven Finalists in Pentagon's Robotic Rally 64
An anonymous reader writes "A mere 11 driverless vehicles — not the 20 originally planned — will compete in this weekend's $3.5 million all-robot street rally, hosted by the Pentagon. After a series of crashes, dangerous turns, and aimless wanderings off of the course, the rest of the robo-cars in the "Urban Challenge" were deemed unsafe to compete."
Drivers' tests and Pentagon competitions (Score:5, Funny)
After all, they still let women drive.
Next challenge (Score:5, Funny)
So when is that event scheduled, and will it be on pay per view?
GPS + Humans are not better (Score:5, Funny)
Seeing the vidoes on YouTube like these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh-B3rysxIA [youtube.com]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7La09EBLf-Q [youtube.com]
or stories about people driving into lakes and flooded roads "because GPS told them to"
man who went to the back of his RV while still on the highway to have some coffee, when he crashed, he sued the company for not stating in the manual that "the car does not turn by itself"
truck driver who drove his lorry into a river, not knowing that the bridge he intended to use was no longer there
etc
I'd say pass the control to the machines as soon as possible....
I miss read that to be "Elvin Finalists"... (Score:2, Funny)
And then I saw this (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Drivers' tests and Pentagon competitions (Score:4, Funny)
Good enough for government work! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Drivers' tests and Pentagon competitions (Score:3, Funny)
True. They could have just moved the competition to downtown Boston.