• Tartan Racing Boss

    By Posted on 11.11.2008 Comments

    “Boss,” the brainchild of Tartan Racing (a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and General Motors), was the winner of the 2007 Darpa Urban Challenge, a competition of autonomous vehicles. The mission: execute tricky merging, passing and parking maneuvers as quickly as possible, while obeying California-state traffic laws. More than a dozen lasers, cameras and radars feed information about Boss’s surroundings into its “brain,” a computer that uses 500,000 lines of code to make decisions about the best way to reach its destination.

    12.1.2008 at 10:41am - Comment by rsunsets

    The cops will hate this thing,who do they give the ticket to?

  • Scaled Composites WhiteKnightTwo

    By Posted on 11.11.2008 Comments

    With the wingspan of a B-29 bomber, the WhiteKnightTwo is the largest all-carbon-fiber aircraft ever built. Its mission is to carry a smaller craft, SpaceShipTwo, and drop it at 48,000 feet, where it will blast off into suborbital space with paying passengers—in 2010, if all goes well. Virgin Galactic’s CEO, Richard Branson, also wants to use WhiteKnightTwo as a low-cost way to launch satellites into orbit. Scaled Composites engineers had to overcome numerous setbacks, including a fatal explosion at the company’s headquarters, to finish the craft.

    11.28.2008 at 10:38pm - Comment by rsunsets

    That thing is going to kill somebody,it is possible to fly something designed like it, its just all wrong, people will die.



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