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I would argue that the 2004 DARPA challenge was a failure with the best car, Sandstorm, only going 7 miles before getting stuck on a rock. That led to a do-over
by cschmidt 9y ago
I would argue that the 2004 DARPA challenge was a failure with the best car, Sandstorm, only going 7 miles before getting stuck on a rock. That led to a do-over in 2005 that was really the first success.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge#2004_Grand_Challenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge#2004_Gra...
- Fricken 9y agoI would argue that no one who has commented in this thread so far has actually read the article.
- jessriedel 9y agoHa, yes it's especially obvious in this case since the HN-chosen title is opposite the general flow of the article. I think people would be more likely to read the bulk of articles if they actually followed the inverted pyramid structure. Instead, nearly every one begins with a meandering human-interest story to draw the reader in. Whatever happened to those proposals to annotate the web?