Desert Robot Race Update, With Video

An anonymous reader writes "Several teams have moved forward with their bid to run the Barstow-Vegas Desert Robot Race (For those not familiar check out http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge ). As of today 55 teams are registered, some of the most interesting are Cal Tech, AI Magic, and the Red Team out of Carnegie Mellon. Also fishing around the Red Team site, there is a pretty nifty video."

Torrent

[Aliencow]

I am currently downloading the file (it's slowing down every second..) but would anyone be willing to provide a tracker ? I'll make a .torrent and email it/seed it !

Re:Torrent

[Scrameustache]

Wich file? The "nifty video"? Save yourself the trouble, its mostly logos...lots of logos...

CNET had a story on this a while back

[tessaiga]

News.com covered the Grand Challenge a while back in one of their articles [com.com]. Gives a more viewer-friendly overview of what it's all about than DARPA's site.

Re:Interesting project which can save some lives

[Pvt_Waldo]

Here are some stats from the International Campaign to Ban Landmines website at http:///www.icbl.org and the Clear Landmines website at http://www.clearlandmines.com...

1. Over 35,000 amputees in Camboida alone from landmine injuries
   
2. An estimated 200 million landmines have been manufactured in the last 25 years.
   
3. Each year, 26,000 people are killed or mutilated by landmines of which 8,000 are children.
   
4. Roughly 3 people every hour, 71 per day are injured or killed by landmines
   

The US Military DOES put effort into this kind of thing for landmine detection. It's not just a "killing" technology. Check out http://www.aro.army.mil/arowash/rt/sbir/00PHIII/00 page3.htm for example. Cool "geek friendly" vehicle which can save lives. There are others too. Go to google and search for sbir landmine detection [google.com]. SBIR grants are a type of grant the US goverment (all branches, not just military) give out every year to small businesses to develop stuff.

Re:Interesting project which can save some lives

[pyrrhonist]

they thought nuclear was a good thing too

No they didn't. See Franck Report (June, 1945).

Red Team Movie Mirror

[jgaynor]

Here [rutgers.edu], Courtesy of Rutgers.

CMU Mirror

[Rufus211]

Wow, this is the second CMU site taken down in the last few days. Well, lets see if we can take down an other! Here's a mirror of the movie and some documents on my CMU account:

http://andrew.cmu.edu/~pnelson/www.redteamracing.o rg/ [cmu.edu]

Re:CMU Mirror

[baximus]

Also try PlanetMirror's mirror [planetmirror.com].

Re:Torrent

[Aliencow]

Torrent.pl requires registration to access their "upload" page..
Same for Voracity..
TorrentReactor Seems to work ! Get the Video [torrentreactor.com] now!

MIRROR

[BhAaD]

Here is a link: http://sch5.digitalnines.com/red_team.mpeg

BitTorrent Link

[BenFranske]

The Red Team file should be availible using BitTorrent at http://voracity.net/download.php/344/red_team.mpeg .torrent [voracity.net]

Re:Why do you call this political trolling?

[davejenkins]

Explain me a link between 9/11 and Iraq. Bush keeps referring to it, yet there's no link whatsoever!

There may be no direct link, but that`s not the direct point (IMHO). The logic behind it (for me) is as follows:

1. Terrorism, based on fundamentalist extremism, will always exist in certain people`s hearts
   
2. That terrorism is limited to goofballs bombing a volkswagen or `small scale` incidents unless they receive major funding, logistical support, intel, and backing
   
3. Certain states, with abolute dictatorial powers (therefore no responsibility to their citizens or the wider community of nation-states), were willing to back such terrorists, or at least fascilitate their actions
   
4. Once you match up #1 and #3, bad things happen on a much larger and more dangerous scale. Because OBL had Afgani resources at his disposal, 9-11 was made much easier for him.
   
5. OBL obviously fits #1 listed. Iraq fit #3 listed. While no linkage directly existed, the possibility of mixing OBL together with Iraqi bio- and chemical weapons was too much of a risk.
   
6. A direct link may exist, but may be classified

Re:The Red Whittaker hype machine

[Spock_NPA]

The Red Team is not building a machine from ground up. Navlab 11 was used as a proof of concept platform for the Red Team. In so far as I can tell, we were way ahead of the Stanford team during this summer - having accomplished a successful 8.6 miles autonomous traversal at our test site.

You are welcomed to take not take us seriously, but know this: we're entering to win.