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DARPA has already stated this course could be driven by a human in a jeep or 4WD pickup (although your kidneys might get bruised at the speed requied through the desert)

so why are people trying to design new vehicles - frames, engines - solar powered?!?!

this is not a contest to see who can make a vehicle that can go from LA to Vegas - we already have hundreds of vehicles right now that can easily do it.

The 'trick' is to make the vehicle drive there all by itself!

this contest is about auto-navigation - piece of cake in an aircraft or sailboat - pretty challenging in the desert or on a two lane dirt road.

THAT is where the contest will be won or lost:

1. Naviagtion
2. Navigation
3. Navigation

there is no reason to 're-invent the jeep'
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