By Stephanie Olsen on 27 September 2007 09:00
Team Caltech, a robotics group at the California Institute of Technology, is one of 35 teams competing in DARPA's Urban Grand Challenge, a race of driverless vehicles on mock city streets, scheduled for 3 November.
The team is fine-tuning "Alice" - a heavily modified 8,000-pound Ford E-350 van, reinforced with armour plating - for the Urban Grand Challenge semi-final round on 26 October in Victorville, California, at the site of the former George Air Force Base.
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1. Jeremy Wickins
Just being picky, but is it proper use of English to refer to "radars". Somehow it looks wrong. RADAR is an acronym for Radio Direction and Ranging, so surely it should be "radar arrays", or something similar.
2. Karen Challinor
soon to be fitted with blue flashing lights, two life size cardboard cut outs of police officers and an automatic ticket dispenser on the side