[Ogre] On the beginnings of autonomous battlefield units

[Felix Cat]

>From Wired's "Say Hello to Stanley" article up for January - 
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/stanley.html - on the first and 
second DARPA Challenges.

>From the article:

But on race day in March 2004, the cars performed like frightened animals. 
One veered off the road to avoid a shadow. The largest vehicle - a 15-ton 
truck - mistook small bushes for enormous boulders and slowly backed away. 
The favorite was a CMU team that, fueled by multimillion-dollar military 
grants, had been working on unmanned vehicles for two decades. Its car went 
7.4 miles, hit a berm, and caught fire. Not a single car finished.

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Thrun realized that if cars were going to get smarter, they needed to 
appreciate how incomplete and ambiguous perception can be. They needed the 
algorithmic equivalent of self-awareness.

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