SUV with mind of its own wins robot car race

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From http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071104/tc_nm/robotrace_dc


VICTORVILLE, California (Reuters) - A souped-up Chevy Tahoe sports utility vehicle with a mind of its own was declared the winner of a robot car race on Sunday after it traveled without help from humans for six hours and 60 miles around a California ghost town.Nicknamed Boss, the vehicle from Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh won a $2 million prize in the third such race sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, which wants robots eventually to drive military supply vehicles.
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Press release from DARPA
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/docs/ucwinnertt.pdf


Believe it or not, this was fascinating even for a lowtech person such as myself to watch all day on Saturday. DARPA and these schools definitely have a different meaning for the initials AI!