A REAL-LIFE Wacky Race is set to take place from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. But this isn’t one for Penelope Pitstop, as only driverless cars can enter.
It’s all part of a project called the Grand Challenge, brainchild of the US government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The programme aims to encourage the development of “autonomous ground vehicles”.
The challenge is simple: contestants must design and build a vehicle that can navigate the 400 kilometres from start to finish, on and off-road, avoiding other vehicles and obstacles along the way. The first to arrive will scoop an as yet undisclosed cash prize.…
