[Ogre] Re: On the beginnings of autonomous battlefield units

[Todd Zircher]

> From: "Felix Cat" <dj_flx at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Ogre] On the beginnings of autonomous
> battlefield units
> 
>> 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.

One year later, in the 2005 DARPA Challenge, four teams had winning vehicles
and another five teams managed to cross the finish line.  Humans don't take
failure lightly.  :-)
--
TAZ


		
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