more on Robot race ends without a winner

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 16:04:08 -0800
From: Mike Masnick <mike () techdirt com>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Robot race ends without a winner
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To: dave () farber net

At 04:13 AM 3/14/2004 -0500, you wrote:

> From: Paul Saffo <psaffo () iftf org>

<snip>

>  I would not be surprised if
> folks decide to disintermediate DARPA and run it themselves.

I think others already have...

http://www.irrf.org/

The "International Robot Racing Federation" appears to be trying to set up 
similar competitions.  I have no idea who's behind it, but  it should be 
interesting to see what they come up with.

Of course, I still stand by my original suggestion, made last year, when 
DARPA told 80 or so teams they couldn't compete in the contest:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20031104/1040236.shtml

They should take a page from the success of TV show competitions like 
Junkyard Wars, which pit two teams in a competition to build something out 
of the junkyard in just one day and have the two teams compete.  You could 
do the same sort of thing for this autonomous race, and put on a regular 
competition showing the autonomous cars trying to navigate the chosen 
course, and set up a round robin style tournament.

Mike


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