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"This adds many of the elements these vehicles would face in operational environments," DARPA director Tony Tether explained.

But it's not enough just to hit every waypoint on the route. The robots will have to obey the rules of the road - including dealing with the traffic circles, four-way stops and merging traffic. That's a change from DARPA's $2 million Grand Challenge in 2005, which merely called for autonomous vehicles to drive over 132 miles of desert roads.

"The vehicles must perform as well as someone with a California driver's license," Tether said.

So does this mean they have to be able to drive while applying mascara, talking on a cell phone, and drinking a Starbucks beverage?

Excuse me! But I check my lipstick instead of doing my mascara!

You know Allegory, I don't think I've ever seen you write more than one paragraph in a single post? Are you too stupid to string together more than a few sentences or are just too lazy to raise you lard filled limb?

We all come to the OOT to have a good time, but spam is not funny. It's crap and no one cares. Even with all your circle jerks you're still at scholar because you post nothing but crap. You are a waste of space.

Yeah, DARPA is far more than just auto stuff. Lately it's kind of had a sordid history, attracting the insane genius John Poindexter as its director for a brief period. And the Office of Information Awareness, a Big Brother project:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office

So, this auto challenge will, under DARPA's plans, probably lead to unmanned highly lethal autobots blowing up Iraqi children!!

Well ultimately the goal is to have unmanned highly lethal autobots blowing but unmanned highly lethal decpticons. It really is possible for robot warfare to eventually replace that of people, rather than simply delaying the deployment of human troops.

Edited, Oct 29th 2007 7:29pm by Allegory