unmanned robot car race

This article is about a contest held by our government in which 23 prestigous colleges built "robotic" cars to traverse a 128-mile offroad course. This contest came about after congress voted that war casualties should be decreased in the next 20 years with the use of unmanned technology. Only five cars finished the race, and the winning team (stanford) took home around 2 million dollars in prize money. I think that it is interesting/slightly scary that unmanned robotics appears to be looming closely in humanities future.



http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/
10/10/robot.race.ap/index.html