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The DARPA Grand Challenge is to build a vehicle that can automonously drive 250 miles from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 10 hours, averaging about 25-30 miles an hour or so.
I saw a link to the site on the Physics Forum in Greg's sig (thanks Greg, one never knows what one will find in someones sig).
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/
The prize? One million bucks (and probably some very major dough for selling your vehicle if it completes it or manages to be one of the top vehicles in line).
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I have bittersweet feelings about DARPA. On one hand they're probably the most creative and open minded government agency we have for technology R&D but unfortunately a lot of their work lately focuses on technologies that aren't exactly conducive to the privacy of normal civilians. All of this Homeland Security nonsense is helping to see to that.
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