Musings of a Gotham City Geek
What is the sound of one blog clapping?
For nearly 50 years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded scientific developments and promoted their adoption by the companies that supply military technology. For the last few years, the agency has been encouraging the development of automated vehicles through a series of Grand Challenges. The first two editions tested the ability of automated vehicles to navigate desert terrain, but this year’s version raised the difficulty dramatically by changing the environment: the 2007 version was called the Urban Challenge.
