I had the chance to look around in Alice last year when I visited my cousin (Joe, he's a sophmore and one of the programmers) and I have to say it was ridiculously cool. My favorite part was the dynamic pneumatic braking system, using something like four or five pneumatics of increasing strength for differnent ammounts of pressure.
I talked to Joe on Saturday, he said Alice only made it eight miles before running into a concrete wall. He said there wasn't that much damage, just to the power steering. He said that the one of the LADAR's was miscalibrated or got disconnected or something, and since their code requires both to be active, they lost both. After that, I guess they lost their GPS signal underneath some powerlines and when they got their signal back, they were angeled differently then they thought. Hopefully thats something close to what happend, maybe Kevin can clarify.
PS: Hey Kevin, if you know Joe, tell him I said hi
