DARPA Grand Challenge ｜ reinvent the wheel #9
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On a brisk March morning in 2004, under the wide-open skies of California’s Mojave Desert, a strange parade began to form. There were fifteen vehicles at the starting line—each one bristling with spinning sensors, welded brackets, and wires that seemed to dangle by the grace of God or duct tape. One looked like a Humvee that had swallowed a satellite dish. Another was a motorcycle that refused to fall over. Engineers and graduate students hovered like pit crew and parents, anxiously clutching laptops, antennae, and half-finished sandwiches.
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