I was inclined to say "yes" but then again, $10M and 15 engineers is peanuts for Google; just the publicity Google being the source of innovation and cool may b

I was inclined to say "yes" but then again, $10M and 15 engineers is peanuts for Google; just the publicity Google being the source of innovation and cool may be worth close to that amount. Google is standing on the shoulders of other efforts in this case, e.g. DARPA Challenge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge).