Driverless vehicle project

Jan 15, 2005 5 Replies

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DD 21 years ago

If you are a realtime developer, you might want to join -

The Autonomous Vehicle Systems Team

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is preparing a HMMWV to navigate its way through the desert 175 miles without a driver, for the

2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.

We are beginning to put all of the pieces together, and are seeking volunteers to help with the realtime c++ software and interprocess communications on networked CompactPCI boards running QNX. If you have experience in this area and would like to join a most exciting project, please send your info to snipped-for-privacy@autonvs.com. We are located in Southern California (San Diego and Orange County) although it is possible to work remotely via our online source control system.

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larwe 21 years ago

The basic problem with all the designs thus far - and the reason all the previous round failed - is that none of them were black sports cars, and none of them had cycling LEDs in a window on the hood.

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Sebastian Schildt 21 years ago

That's it! Give this man a cigar!

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larwe 21 years ago

By the way - the original was auctioned off on eBay a few months ago. I think the starting bid was $10,000. But it was in very poor condition, not even driveable.

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Sebastian Schildt 21 years ago

IIRC there were more than one original. For example there was one very light version for the stunts/jumps, and I think I read somehwere that the version with the fancy dashboard was never drivable since it needed to be plugged into a socket...

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Sebastian Schildt 21 years ago

snipped-for-privacy@larwe.com wrote: >

If you have the will and money you can build your own. There are a lot of pages offering parts or showing other peoples projects:

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