DARPA

[Joe Ross]

It was the same day as the SCRRF Fall Workshops, so many teams in Southern California were otherwise occupied.

I had considered going (It's about 2 hours away from me), but other things came up.

[falconmaster]

You can't control what goes on out there in the world of media. You can control what you think is important. Continue being the role model and eventually, hopefully everyone else will follow. If they don't, you know you are doing the right thing and rest easy in that.

[David Brinza]

I certainly would have gone to Victorville, but instead attended the SCRRF workshops at CSUN. One of our mentors, AJ, planned to go and root for Tartan Racing from Carnegie Mellon Univ (his alma mater). I'm guessing it was worth the trip for him !!

I went to the starting line for the first DARPA Grand Challenge near Barstow back in 2004. I took my youngest son, Clayton (now a senior on Team 16 - Bomb Squad), and we had a blast! We especially enjoyed the small group of Caltech students who painted themselves with "Go Bob!" and led some chants as Bob, the Caltech entry, started on the course.