Comments on: DARPA sees inspiration as trophy of robot race

As director of the U.S. government's research and development arm, Tony Tether hopes today's races will attract tomorrow's engineers and scientists.

[spothannah]

Excitement

I like Tether's statement about "excitement." I work with adolescents in a psychiatric inpatient facility. Many of them are lacking "excitement" and consequently they turn to drugs/negative behaviors/depression/self-mutilation/suicide. They need a "mission" and many of them have given up. Self-growth for many of them has to start in the external world. Many of them just don't have the stamina for self-growth in the internal world at this point in their lives. An external, exciting challenge acts as a good metaphor to interanlize (eventually) for internal growth. Keep up the good work Tether!

[KonaKidz]

Axion Racing Rocks

It's going to be pretty subjective, but Axion Racing should beat DARPA funded Caltech ($1 million) at the 2007 Urban Challenge. The team's Spirit (3rd time Challenger) will accomplish this by using a Sony PlayStation as a main computer processor. In autonomous vehicle racing nothing ever really changes but the scenery.

[Yogaboarding.com]

Save us all

Another way autonyms vehicles will save solders is to create cars for the masses that get 70 mpg.

Autonyms vehicles will FREE US from our dependence on foreign oil.

500 lb car - Safe - Fast - Crash Proof / Ditch the air bag's and crack a cold one, the computer is driving..

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