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Robot cars rally for desert race.(Assembly Lines)
Assembly, September, 2003
LOS ANGELES -- Numerous engineers, researchers and robot aficionados have signed up for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge, a contest that generates ideas that hopefully will lead to the development of self-driving combat vehicles.
DARPA will give $1 million to the team whose robotic car drives the fastest from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, on an off-mad course. The race, which must be won within 10 hours, will take place on March 13, 2004.
The hardest part of that 250-mile course---which won't be revealed until 2 hours before the start--is the obstacles. The vehicles will have to drive through or around sand, mud, boulders, ditches, barbed wire, mountains and at least one overpass where onboard global positioning systems...
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