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Re: Meet BOB, Caltech's entry into the DARPA Grand Challenge

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Originally Posted by miketwalker
Are they planning on following the vehicles during the race, because I'd love to watch how these vehicles perform,...
Yes, DARPA will have at least one chase vehicle for each of the twenty entries. If something goes wrong, the chase team can remotely "pause" or completely disable the vehicle. We integrated DARPA's "e-stop" hardware Friday night and partially tested it yesterday.


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Originally Posted by miketwalker
do you have any videos of testing for your vehicle also? Best of luck to you guys.
Yes, we've been taping our tests. I'll try to get a sample to post. We're also being videotaped by a few different outside broadcast companies. For the past week, a crew from the Japanese television network NHK has been following us around (our own reality TV series ), so I imagine some of the team's exploits will show-up on TV too.

There are a few more photos here

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