It's kind of like "I, Robot" meets "The Amazing Race," with a dash of "Deal or No Deal."
Others robots to tackle the challenge of autonomous city-driving include the French team DOTMOBIL, Team MIT from Cambridge, Mass., and a group called "A Bunch of Dropouts" from Kingman, Ariz. Carnegie Mellon, a pioneer of robotics with two vehicles in last year's race, retired its Sandstorm, a modified Hummer that had performed in DARPA's first two Grand Challenges. I guess racing a robot Hummer in downtown traffic may not be the wisest move.
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