THE PENTAGON'S MILLION-DOLLAR CONTEST between autonomous robots in California's Mojave desert Saturday proved a brilliant success that achieved even its loftiest objectives. All the problems relating to autonomous military vehicle development were largely solved by participants, validating the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) approach of using an open competition to accelerate the technologies required for unmanned land navigation. That's my take on the whole thing. But that's not the story you heard from the mainstream media over the weekend. All the reports I read were laden with disappointed reporters, who snidely focused on the fact that no entry finished the course, or even made it to the eight mile mark in the 142-mile race. This from a bunch of journalists barely technical enough to find the Mojave Desert using Mapquest. Here's why the Grand Challenge was a grand success.
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