万花筒 kaleidoscope2007-08-23&08-24, 功能强大的机器人车（在线收听）

If you want to go into an area that’s high-risk, you can send in a vehicle ahead of time to do surveillance and those kinds of things without having to hurt people. If you blow up the car, there were enemies in the area. If you don’t, and you can actually look around, you can get a sense for what does it look like. The same scenario: if you are about to go in, for a look at a hostage situation, you can go in and build up a map of what the environment looks like and give that us and tell the angst to officers before they engage, so there is lots of possible scenarios where you can deploy this technology. There are tests where we come up to the forward intersection and show that we can understand precedence so if you come up first, you go through , if you come up last, you have to wait for the others to clear the intersection.

There is nobody else of the intersection, so it will immediately take a left turn.

On race day, there will be nobody in the car, and there will be a chase vehicle with, er, DARPA officials who have an emergency stop switch. Um, we won’t really have any access to the vehicle, no, no data coming off the vehicle, we will just be sitting and watching. It will be, it will be nerve-racking. But, you know, that’s the rules.