If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars
~if I had a million dollars~
I'd buy you a robotic car
~a nice reliant automobile~
If I had a million dollars
~if I had a million dollars~
I'd buy you sensors for your car
~maybe a nice 2D LIDAR and some GPS~
If I had a million dollars
~if I had a million dollars~
DARPA has just announced that Team Cornell is one of eleven DARPA Urban Challenge teams to be awarded a research contract of up to one million dollars in support of our efforts in the DUC. A full sixty teams that applied for such funding, so we feel very honored and fortunate to be chosen as recipients. A more official (less candid) press release is available on DARPA's website:
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/docs/Track_A_Teams_Announcement.pdf
In other news, DARPA has apparently changed the text of the DUC rules so that first, second, and third place finishers in the DUC receive trophies. What does that mean? It means that Congress may very well deny DARPA the authority to give cash awards for any cool research that gets developed this year. Way to go, Congress, way to go.
Actually, considering that most of us university kids are here for the thrill of the chase, I'd say it's fairly shrewd of them. Then again, maybe I give them too much credit.
Anyway, funding changes everything. EVERYTHING. So here, fresh from the mind of everybody's favorite author, are the top ten things CUDGC won't have to do this year:
10. Mow lawns and perform other landscaping tasks to make rent.
9. Use cardboard boxes in place of real sensors and computers.
8. Invert matrices or solve ODE's for spare change.
7. Blind-call companies for a nut, bolt, or spare connector.
6. Deficit spend against the department's credit.
5. "Borrow" internetz from certain nameless people.
4. Rack up thousands of dollars in parking tickets for shady unmarked U-Hauls and half-built rock crawlers.
3. Buy malfunctioning radar units from sketchy dudes who won't accept return shipments until threatened.
2. Shift gears on certain cars with a bit of twine and a stick.
1. Replace the transmission every 3000 km.
The sad part is that a good number of these weren't just made up for the sake of comedy.
~if I had a million dollars~
I'd buy you a robotic car
~a nice reliant automobile~
If I had a million dollars
~if I had a million dollars~
I'd buy you sensors for your car
~maybe a nice 2D LIDAR and some GPS~
If I had a million dollars
~if I had a million dollars~
DARPA has just announced that Team Cornell is one of eleven DARPA Urban Challenge teams to be awarded a research contract of up to one million dollars in support of our efforts in the DUC. A full sixty teams that applied for such funding, so we feel very honored and fortunate to be chosen as recipients. A more official (less candid) press release is available on DARPA's website:
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/docs/Track_A_Teams_Announcement.pdf
In other news, DARPA has apparently changed the text of the DUC rules so that first, second, and third place finishers in the DUC receive trophies. What does that mean? It means that Congress may very well deny DARPA the authority to give cash awards for any cool research that gets developed this year. Way to go, Congress, way to go.
Actually, considering that most of us university kids are here for the thrill of the chase, I'd say it's fairly shrewd of them. Then again, maybe I give them too much credit.
Anyway, funding changes everything. EVERYTHING. So here, fresh from the mind of everybody's favorite author, are the top ten things CUDGC won't have to do this year:
10. Mow lawns and perform other landscaping tasks to make rent.
9. Use cardboard boxes in place of real sensors and computers.
8. Invert matrices or solve ODE's for spare change.
7. Blind-call companies for a nut, bolt, or spare connector.
6. Deficit spend against the department's credit.
5. "Borrow" internetz from certain nameless people.
4. Rack up thousands of dollars in parking tickets for shady unmarked U-Hauls and half-built rock crawlers.
3. Buy malfunctioning radar units from sketchy dudes who won't accept return shipments until threatened.
2. Shift gears on certain cars with a bit of twine and a stick.
1. Replace the transmission every 3000 km.
The sad part is that a good number of these weren't just made up for the sake of comedy.
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