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Mystery of Pentagon DARPA Cars Revealed, Deep Throat Spills

Our Deep Throat at the Pentagon's parking lot has sent us an update with new pictures and the reason why the DARPA Challenge cars have taken over the military installation today: "they are showing off." After all, the men with the funny hats pay the bills. You can check his complete explanation here.

3:55 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Jesus Diaz
5,807 views, 5 comments

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DARPA Urban Challenge Cars Invading Pentagon Parking Lot

Gizmodo reader Andrew Friend was strolling yesterday through the Pentagon's North Parking back to the office when he noticed the car above, MIT's entry in the DARPA Urban Challenge, which aims to produce a car that can run completely automated in any conditions, without human intervention. He reported today that all the challenge cars arrived today—"they must be doing something on the weekend when the parking lot clears out," he said. With no notice of a new challenge, what are all those cars doing there? Some possible answers, Google Maps location and a video showing how good these cars are, right after the jump. Updated: check the extra images from different cars and all the details about what is going on from another reader at the Pentagon right now.
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9:30 AM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Jesus Diaz
11,262 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: CMU's computer was actually called skynet. If you ask me those dudes are just asking for trouble. Not only that, their bot runs on windows...asking for trouble more »

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Watch the DARPA Urban Challenge Final Live, Don't Forget About Us

If you are planning on showing Gizmodo no love this morning, we shall excuse you if you ditch us for the awesome DARPA Urban Challenge. The DARPA Urban Challenge hopes to pursue technologies that may replace humans on the battlefield. Teams enter an unmanned, robotic and autonomous vehicle, which is released in a mock city environment and must complete certain tasks to succeed. The main objective is for the robotic vehicle to carry out simulated military supply missions, whilst simultaneously negotiating their way through traffic and past obstacles. More »

9:50 AM on Sat Nov 3 2007
By Haroon Malik
8,258 views, 8 comments

Latest by n/a: what are you an idiot? he said himself that it was NCSU's car. Congratulations to all the teams, it was amazing to see what their hard work accomplished. hopefully my college can compete for the next DARPA challenge! more »

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Robot Car Crashes Into Manned Vehicle; Where'd You Learn to Drive?

The $3.5 million DARPA Urban Challenge semifinals are underway, and in these qualifying rounds the robot cars are all vying for the right to participate in the actual race on November 3. On this qualifying course, you can see Axion Racing's vehicle, "Spirit," making a pretty dumb move, taking a left turn directly into one of the human-driven Ford Taurus chase cars. No, robot SUV, the idea is to avoid those stunt car is driven by the humans, not attack them. There were a couple of another small accidents with another vehicle yesterday, one from Georgia Tech, which was having a bit of trouble dealing with the protective guard rails set up in the parking lot course. On the other hand, a robot Chevy Tahoe built by Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing seems to be doing quite well in the proceedings thus far. [TG Daily, via Danger Room]
UPDATE: Whoops, we almost forgot, Axion sent along a close-up pic of the Spirit robot vehicle, but look out, there are a couple of twins showing off their backsides as they demonstrate the vehicle, so it's almost NSFW. We tried to airbrush/photoshop out the naughty parts for readers working in churches and preschools, to no avail. More »

8:55 AM on Tue Oct 30 2007
By Charlie White
37,032 views, 46 comments

Latest by MacAddict21: bless you Zenpoet more »