Dear Santa, please bring me one of these:

http://www.howeandhowe.com/videos/SPONSOR.wmv

howdy

hhhooooolllyyy crrrraap!!! totally awsome.

yes!!! santa/jesus/god/mickey mouse...somebody bring me one of those!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanx ren!

later

jason

650HP!!!! Maaaaaannnn....that thing ROCKS!!!!
and 14 inches of suspension travel???? Great!!!

HAHA they called a unibodied cherokee,"a golfcart".. i liked watching them beat up the trucks . one of the trucks body seemed to pull away from the frame. did you guys see that?

I dont see anything?

Hmmm, funny how they promote themselves as being part of the DARPA program. Not a single vehilce in the challenge finished or even got very far for that matter.

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Originally posted by TXJEEPER:
Hmmm, funny how they promote themselves as being part of the DARPA program. Not a single vehilce in the challenge finished or even got very far for that matter.

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yeah.. Noticed that. The vehicle is cool, but not very well suited for this stage of the Darpa stuff. The 'Red Team' last year had a ton (literally) of computing power and still couldn't crunch the input fast enough to safely go over about 35 mph.

The control sensor/software is what I going to win that challenge.


That said.. cool toy.

Jason

howdy

i dont claim to know a lick about that stuff but dont gm and ford and such already have cars that drive themselves?? i mean it seems like evry other month i see something like that on tv...or something. plus(im probably wrong) but didnt the vid say expect to see them in 05??
anyway

later

jason

Heck, in junk yard wars they built 2 radio control cars out of pure junk and they were hual'n a$$!

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Originally posted by jason:
howdy

i dont claim to know a lick about that stuff but dont gm and ford and such already have cars that drive themselves?? i mean it seems like evry other month i see something like that on tv...or something. plus(im probably wrong) but didnt the vid say expect to see them in 05??
anyway

later

jason

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Driving on a gps mapped lined road is one thing. Driving a few hundred miles in the desert with only waypoint goals an no roads is another.

Even with Ratheon developed laser radar, high accurracy GPS (in the cm of accuracy range), and stereo vision systems the H1 of the Red team wandered a few feet off course over a dirt birm last time and just got stuck.

With the right software, a subaru brat will be faster than that tracked thing.

Now, if the tracked thingy was just what it seems to be now, a really fast/fun tracked vehicle. That would be the coolest thing since sliced bread.

Jason