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DARPA Grand Challenge Padu 10-04-2005
Posted by Padu on October 4, 2005, 12:50 pm
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Is anybody reading the blogs and NQE results?

People are very confident that there will be not only a winner this year but
more than one team crossing the finish line. Seems that so far Stanford (the
Touareg guys) have cleaner runs but Red teams (CMU - the red hummers) are a
little faster.

What do you guys think? I think that 2 or 3 miles qualification on an
synthetic course is way different than the open desert... who knows?

Personally, I'd like to see a grand challenge 2006. But it would be nice to
see a team finishing the course this year. I'm going to Vegas next Friday
and I'm gonna be there to watch.

Cheers

Padu



Posted by DOC on October 7, 2005, 4:02 pm
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I sure would like to be around there to have a look see.

You're right about the real world vs. the synthetic... but with 23 strong
contenders, it sure looks like this time SOMEONE will make it to the
finish line.

I see where the one and only Canuck team (Autonosys) failed to qualify.
http://www.autonosys.com/
Kind of like my home team for me eh! :-)ooo

I also would like to see this sort of thing happen on a regular basis.
A little competition spurs innovation... Or whatever.

BTW, what blogs are you following?


DOC


"Open the pod bay doors, HAL!"





> Is anybody reading the blogs and NQE results?
>
> People are very confident that there will be not only a winner this year
but
> more than one team crossing the finish line. Seems that so far Stanford
(the
> Touareg guys) have cleaner runs but Red teams (CMU - the red hummers) are
a
> little faster.
>
> What do you guys think? I think that 2 or 3 miles qualification on an
> synthetic course is way different than the open desert... who knows?
>
> Personally, I'd like to see a grand challenge 2006. But it would be nice
to
> see a team finishing the course this year. I'm going to Vegas next Friday
> and I'm gonna be there to watch.
>
> Cheers
>
> Padu
>
>



Posted by Ian Osgood on October 7, 2005, 9:42 pm
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The main news site, which will have live updates on race progress
tomorrow starting at 6AM PST:

http://www.grandchallenge.org/

(Flash required.)

Ian

DOC wrote:
> I sure would like to be around there to have a look see.
>
> You're right about the real world vs. the synthetic... but with 23 strong
> contenders, it sure looks like this time SOMEONE will make it to the
> finish line.
>
> I see where the one and only Canuck team (Autonosys) failed to qualify.
> http://www.autonosys.com/
> Kind of like my home team for me eh! :-)ooo
>
> I also would like to see this sort of thing happen on a regular basis.
> A little competition spurs innovation... Or whatever.
>
> BTW, what blogs are you following?
>
>
> DOC
>
>
> "Open the pod bay doors, HAL!"
>
>
>
>
>
> > Is anybody reading the blogs and NQE results?
> >
> > People are very confident that there will be not only a winner this year
> but
> > more than one team crossing the finish line. Seems that so far Stanford
> (the
> > Touareg guys) have cleaner runs but Red teams (CMU - the red hummers) are
> a
> > little faster.
> >
> > What do you guys think? I think that 2 or 3 miles qualification on an
> > synthetic course is way different than the open desert... who knows?
> >
> > Personally, I'd like to see a grand challenge 2006. But it would be nice
> to
> > see a team finishing the course this year. I'm going to Vegas next Friday
> > and I'm gonna be there to watch.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Padu
> >
> >


Posted by Pat Farrell on October 7, 2005, 10:26 pm
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Ian Osgood wrote:
> The main news site, which will have live updates on race progress
> tomorrow starting at 6AM PST:
>
> http://www.grandchallenge.org/
>
> (Flash required.)

While I love the Grand Challenge,
the main news site is nearly unusable. It uses flash for everything
and is not rendered well on my main system, an old, wimpy, slow, low
resolution, low color machine.

There may be a text version of the site, which they'd need to comply with
assorted accessibility rules, but I can't see enough of the site to
find it.

Such a cool idea, such a lousey website.


--
Pat



Posted by DOC on October 8, 2005, 7:01 am
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I have the same access problems as I live in the boonies
and can only get dial up.

I also thought that there might be some non sanctioned blogs that
took a more critical approach to the competition.

Any bookies calling the odds? :-)ooo

DOC



> Ian Osgood wrote:
> > The main news site, which will have live updates on race progress
> > tomorrow starting at 6AM PST:
> >
> > http://www.grandchallenge.org/
> >
> > (Flash required.)
>
> While I love the Grand Challenge,
> the main news site is nearly unusable. It uses flash for everything
> and is not rendered well on my main system, an old, wimpy, slow, low
> resolution, low color machine.
>
> There may be a text version of the site, which they'd need to comply with
> assorted accessibility rules, but I can't see enough of the site to
> find it.
>
> Such a cool idea, such a lousey website.
>
>
> --
> Pat
>
>



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